EISPIRATEN

Some years back I summited Iron Mt via its SW ridge, approaching via Allison Mine . I haven't been doing as many of these sorts of trips as I used to, and I've been wanting to reassess my fitness level. So yesterday I teamed up with Wes and Jeff and Gautier to repeat this route. We walked up the Eas...

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Thanks for the report, and glad you were able to complete the route. Where's the area with the trail work? Up to the saddle from the start?

HikeUp wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 11:09 pm What if he shaved his pits n bits?

That's hilarious! It would make all the difference

I suspect he might have lots of photos for each trip, but only a select few were included in the trip report. And that there's no automateable way to match them up. But he can hopefully tell us that I'm wrong.

AW: if you Still have the photos for all your old reports on a disk drive somewhere And have some automateable way to convert your trip-report image filenames (like "tr6.jpg") to the images you have on your computer Then we can do an automated mass-reimport to get everything back. The seco...

Wow. What an adventure! The crag you did get to looks like it could be worth climbing too? We haven't heard of anyone going to the "goal" crag? No trip reports, no mountainproject? Nothing?

Awesome! I love solving puzzles like this. It's so much more satisfying to figure it out yourself than have somebody just tell you where it's at. Want to come find some airplanes?

Check out the listing. Sale price includes 5 snowmobiles!

What a find. Does that say D34 if you flip it?

It's a 5 acre lot, the smallest one in the neighborhood. It would be interesting to know the history of how the lots came to be, and why they're different and all that. If we ever come back (unclear why anybody would), approaching from the E (I5) could maybe work better. It's longer, but you'd be sp...

Look at the race flow or the run/rest stats. I don't understand how they're doing this.

So back in 2002, a friend of a friend of a friend bought some land at an auction. This is in a remote location, and he never got around to doing anything with it. Or even ever visiting it. So today, over 20 years later, Crosby and I went out to assess the property. We're going into the Los Padres NF...

Neat! I'll put it on the "do-that-sometime-in-the-uncertain-future-if-Im-in-the-area" list.

Did you make it to the top???

Export a gpx. That's compatible with most things

Amazing, you found my eyelash curler!? You can have it back, I got eye boogers all over it Thunder Ridge has some of the best scree surfing in the summertime. I saw a report where you took that down to Manker. Ever go all the way down to the mouth of Icehouse canyon? I look at that slope every time...

That sounds like the Los Padres Was this one of those trips where you can see the goal the whole time, but it's unattainable? Sure you don't want to go back? You know the bear trick now

Definitely full crampons. But wait a few weeks, and it'll all be gone.

I was 3rd out of 15 or so. Definitely did far better than I otherwise would have. The two that beat me normally would have finished in half the time as me, but here I was 3rd by only a little bit. Recommended!

I think I know where it is. Worth visiting? Cave pearls?

Today I "ran" a trail-running race. We started at Manker Flat, and set off to hit 3 checkpoints: Thunder Mountain peak, Ski hut, Baldy peak. In any order, using any route. There's still a lot of snow at elevation, so clearly "running" this isn't what I wanted to do. I brought mou...

This looks really cool. Looking at the map, it's all the way out by the AZ border? Did you already get most of the desert ranges between here and there?

Great ride, and great to meet you, John! I actually couldn't get a bike ticket on the earlier train either, but the conductor took pity on me, and let me on anyway. I rode with Brendan for a while; had I known yall were hanging around somewhere, I would have joined. We will cross paths again1

Epic!!! Did you "ride" the whole "Warm Springs-Necktie trail" as it appears on the old usgs quads? The aerials show that there's a firebreak on that ridge most of the way, but towards the bottom, at 2600ft the firebreak splits off to go E, but the trail goes W. The trail isn't vi...

Tom Kenney wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:04 pm I'm sorry. As a life-long programmer, that feels like schadenfreude.

Did you just out yourself as a "life-long programmer"??? Want to help fix with the image recovery?

Adding the "like" buttons like we had in tapatalk is actually easy; we can use the same extension they used. Can somebody prod me on the admin board to make sure I get it done? It'll take 5 minutes to actually add the extension, but if it somehow breaks something cleaning up the mess could...

Here you go:

https://caltopo.com/m/PNBA2

This is the canyon route that I think you attempted previously.

I toured the Los Padres again this year. Somehow they made it even harder. The TDLP is a bike-packing race through the back-country of the Los Padres national forest. Due to insufficient fitness, this year I rode the tour route, the shorter option: 186mi, 18.5kft gain . As usual, this is mostly rout...

Found this dapper fellow somewhere between Austin and Dallas.



Definitely click to get the full-res original