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About this time last year, I encountered an individual while descending into the upper reaches of Bear Creek near the Twin Peaks saddle branch: https://eispiraten.com/w ... t6411.html Still curious about the area and wanting to explore possible alternatives to reaching triplet rocks, I descended the...

Dima's recent trip report jogged my memory of an unsolved mystery I encountered on my way up the north ridge of Mt Williamson: How did this get here? https://eispiraten.com/images-archived/farm1.staticflickr.com/265/19514908533_ef81025a2d_b.jpg This tire is located on the broad summit of peak 6621, ...

Hey Dima, nice job on a long ridge up there. It sure is scenic in that area. I think the fact that it's on a pretty shady northerly aspect helps keep more open piney vegetation and less of the dense brush, although I did encounter a few manzanita patches on my excursion. Compare this to the adjacent...

Rode my bike to the end of Brown Mt. Road this weekend and was told by a Ranger that the Ken Burton Trail is now open. He was out near the saddle to remove the "off limits" sign, but somebody had already taken it down. Looks like some mtn bikers are already starting to explore the loop. Th...

Here are some photos of visits to Brown's Flat from the 1930s or so.

http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm ... mode/exact

Probably have to copy the link and paste it.

Nice job! Very tough travel through dense brush. Did the "trail" used to go along the ridge top or along the side of the ridge? It looks like this fellow made it there once in 2005 for some geology field work. I guess the Williams fire had cleared some of the brush a couple of years before...

Thanks for the report, Rico. I just did the shortcut version of this loop yesterday. Went up Crescenta View Trail and came down the ridge that divides Dunsmore Canyon from Cooks Canyon. On the very upper section of Crescenta View, I followed the abandoned segment of trail that continues traversing a...

Great trip report! Congratulations on completing that loop and thanks for sharing the info. To be clear, there was no trail anywhere at all the entire time, so that OSM route is clearly historical. If you're curious about the old trail, some segments of it do exist high on the canyon wall before you...

Interesting discussion. I think the disagreements here are perhaps more about word choice and terms than about substance. I tend to agree that if people are more directly and personally engaged with the land and the environment around them, they have more at stake and participate more in the process...

Very sad. Planned to go skiing at Mt. Waterman today, but found it closed, probably due to a death yesterday on the mountain. Things seem to soften up with the heat but can set up and freeze very quickly once the shadows come across. Be safe, all. http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/ ... identifi...

Nice one, guys! An impressive piece of work. I remember hearing about several bicycle misadventures/rescues where at least two or three parties since the station fire have tried to ride down the unmaintained Gabrieleno trail from Switzer's or thereabouts. It seems they would ride for a while, then b...

On Saturday I was bicycle exploring up the fire road that climbs the west side of Yerba Buena Ridge and was nearly at the upper junction with the fascination spring trail. Up ahead in a grassy clearing on the ridge I saw something sauntering along through the field, but pretty much out in the open a...

Fantastic trip, Dima. I've always speculated about doing the same thing but going from top to bottom, getting dropped off near Red Box and eventually finishing up by walking to my house in Highland Park. Now I guess I've got to attempt it. The plan was to stay next to the channel the entire time, bu...

Nice job! Certainly into the heart of the wilderness on an outing like that. Did you see any ancient, weathered and eroded cairns on or around peak 4915? On my descent of Devil's Canyon from twin peaks saddle some years ago, I took a shortcut through the flat area to the east of peak 4915, specifica...

I wonder if it might have been some kind of temporary service road or some access to Oakwilde or to help build electrical towers or Brown Mtn. Dam? Here's my crude attempt to trace the route of the old road cuts. https://caltopo.com/m/85AK The orange line is the old dark canyon trail/roadbed descend...

Nice report, Dima. Thanks for the update. I've been wanting to revisit the area via that access. There used to be a one-car turnout right there where that ridge route starts, but it is now completely walled off since they redid everything after the station fire. I visited the dam bypass trail from P...

I'd like to get a map of their use trails before the Feds bust them. In that news clip, the site seemed to be near the drop in for skull canyon, or was it the next turnout/overlook? In either case, maybe they left a bit of a use trail there to access Devil's canyon, plus the grow has already been c...

Don't forget about the lifetime's supply of hot dogs and 'smores at the scout camp in Monrovia Canyon. I almost want to join the scouts again just for a chance to jump in the swimming pool they have up there. On Saturday, I saw a youngish, healthy-looking, 400-pound, cinnamon colored bear cross the ...

On recent bike rides, I've been struggling to develop good "bug wiper" technique while pedaling uphill in shaded watershed areas. Downhill, you generally go fast enough to outpace the little bastards, but uphill is slow going and combined with the exertion, sweat and balancing on a bike ma...

That would seem to make sense as the 138 roughly follows the San Andreas zone up to the Gorman area and then the 5 comes south down a canyon system from Tejon Pass and Frazier Park, I guess that's part of Piru Creek and then Castaic Creek, though maybe tracing Piru Creek would be the more prominent ...

Congratulations. That's a great accomplishment. Keep it up! We stared at Norman Clyde in utter disbelief as we had both seen trip reports of mountaineers that have hit both mountain tops in a Palisade Traverse. Has anybody here ever climbed or attempted Norman Clyde peak? It's just got stunning line...

This is the south gully I was looking at, but it looks more difficult than the east side to me, and probably more work to get to the base. Given the alternatives, I think I prefer the northern approach, but Lord knows what kind of surprises you might run into on the way there. It's a long way acros...

So you've gone up the ridge to Flint Peak? Find any antlers? I've gone there quite a bit, and never saw a soul. I've never been up the fire break to Flint Peak but I've reached it via the access road that contours in from the east. I'll have to go give that fire break a looksee. Sounds like a nice ...

Altadena? Maybe it's the Arroyo Seco road entering near the JPL gate? Small parking area. Lots of bicycles. Paved road turning to dirt. Starts out with the creek on the left, but then it's on the right for a while before the road turns to dirt. But the trail crosses the creek lots of times so I'm no...

Hey Tekewin, Thanks for compiling that info. I was exploring another entry route from the north a bit to the west of your "buckhorn" line when I ran into undesirable company, but travel was so easy along that path that I'd like to get back and explore the "narco-harvest" route so...

Nice one, Sean. Hmm, I wonder if we're neighbors. Those are a couple of my "I've only got 40 minutes" spots to go for a walk. There's a strange patchwork of open space parcels scattered around the San Rafael Hills. Seems that Glendale has penciled in the Flint Peak area as a "proposed...

I took a long bike ride up a road that travels along the northern aspect of the range. I haven't seen so many of these prints on one dirt road ever. Almost every drainage I went across had tons of these prints. Looks like a whole tribe of bigfoots (bigfeets?) getting ready for fall: https://eispirat...

Very nice! If you like that kind of thing, a nice jaunt in the area is the north side of Mt. Markham, scrambling up the rocky ridge directly from the road. I did it once years ago, so I can't vouch for the conditions, but I remember it being an enjoyable scramble up a relatively stable assembly of b...

Nice job, guys! I went from West to East and enjoyed arriving at the use trail after the bushwhack and scramble that's involved in navigating the west side of the peak. The north side of the fence is definitely the way to go. I like those view spots with big dropoffs to the south, I think that one j...

Up above Cogswell Dam on Saturday, I ran across a couple bow hunters who informed me that it was the first day of bow hunting season. Does anybody know how long it runs or when it transitions into firearms and so on?