EISPIRATEN

Come on Tim, you know you want to give it a go!

I'll go to Iron...if we come from Baldy

"...where angels fear to tread." Have fun on the gunsight.

You wanna do a traverse from Heaton to Baldy?

Nah, it's too hot to do the traverse. In the fall maybe from Baldy to Iron and then back to Baldy. I want nothing to do with Yucca City and the Saddle from Hell

What time do you guys go when doing the traverse?

I'm in if it starts early enough?

A 4:30 AM start would put us at the top of Baldy by 7:15 AM and to Iron by 9AM, it's that dreaded return up the Traverse in the opposite direction in the heat that sucks. If we could make it back over West Baldy by 11:30 AM it might not be that bad?

We could stash some water on the other side of West Baldy on another hike before then?

I like this idea of doing the traverse as a return trip to Baldy. Avoiding Iron Mt sounds ideal. I'm still planning on doing Iron on this date, but would definitely be up for doing the traverse another day.

Tim wrote:Nah, it's too hot to do the traverse. In the fall maybe from Baldy to Iron and then back to Baldy. I want nothing to do with Yucca City and the Saddle from Hell

Won't it be cooled off by then? If you start REALLY early like 3 am then imagine that! Going down from West Baldy at like before 6 am. Would be nice and cool then! Just gotta get up a little earlier. If Rick Kent can do it, ANYBODY can do it!

JMunaretto wrote:I like this idea of doing the traverse as a return trip to Baldy. Avoiding Iron Mt sounds ideal. I'm still planning on doing Iron on this date, but would definitely be up for doing the traverse another day.

J man, lemme get this straight. You start at manker and go up and over west baldy and go how far across the traverse w/o tagging Iron? then go back to manker? Like turn around at gunsight?

woops, I meant avoiding going down from Iron Mt (to East Fork). Gotta tag Iron then head back.

JMunaretto wrote:woops, I meant avoiding going down from Iron Mt (to East Fork). Gotta tag Iron then head back.

And you could bail out to Heaton if you don't want to go back through the wicked thorns. And beg for a ride back.

I changed this to this saturday. I have 15 coming, with at least 10 planning on going the whole way (the others just to the saddle).

All the carnage to come

I hope it's nice and cool. That could become a bit of a nightmare if folks started dropping out in any number.

TacoDelRio wrote:I hope it's nice and cool. That could become a bit of a nightmare if folks started dropping out in any number.

I'll watch the cars from up on the hillside. I usually ride alone but if anyone wants to catch people breaking into cars let me know. 8) you got that keemosabie?

BRB gun store

JMunaretto wrote:I changed this to this saturday. I have 15 coming, with at least 10 planning on going the whole way (the others just to the saddle).

All the carnage to come

so? yeah yeah? do tell? did you go so fast you ran all the way over the top of the mountain? and down the other side?

no I took it easy this time. 4 hrs up, still not bad. Less ruination of the legs.