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Oof, this one hurts. RIP Colin.

The scramble down Mendenhall is really fun. The scramble down The Pinnacle? Wear pants and bring thick gloves.

That last mile once you hop off 3N32 is pretty spectacular ridge hiking, some of the best in the San Gabes. Even the game trails basically disappear about 1/2 way across. Couple false summits with really dramatic views of the way ahead and behind. We got lucky with the really moody weather. Definite...

Yep - started from Dillon Divide: https://caltopo.com/m/3U54B All of the possible ridges you could take down from the summit end as a 10ft cliff above the fire road/trail below, unfortunately. From the top, however, I did scout out two possible gullies (marked on the map) that you could traverse and...

Can you name it? I've tried to include enough contextual terrain to make it possible but not too easy. PXL_20230122_171456900.jpg Coming into view PXL_20230122_173316325.jpg Staring down the final ascent, no trails here but evidence of a firebreak at one point PXL_20230122_174420889.MP.jpg Looking N...

David R wrote: ↑viewtopic.php?p=65174#p65174

Whoa awesome! I'll have to go back. I pulled 20+ ticks off my pants during my 2019 attempt...

Would love to have someone go back there soon and take some pics of the current conditions to see if it is possible to loop up and behind Condor again.

Have you considered doing Condor Point from Trail Canyon? I think it's a lot of gain (~5k), but I've read a couple of trip reports on it. Last time I tried was in 2018 or 2019 and it was impassable (in my opinion) beyond the remains of Tom Lucas camp. I spent an hour making about 1/4 mile progress ...

Have you considered doing Condor Point from Trail Canyon? I think it's a lot of gain (~5k), but I've read a couple of trip reports on it. Last time I tried was in 2018 or 2019 and it was impassable (in my opinion) beyond the remains of Tom Lucas camp. I spent an hour making about 1/4 mile progress ...

Have you considered doing Condor Point from Trail Canyon? I think it's a lot of gain (~5k), but I've read a couple of trip reports on it. Last time I tried was in 2018 or 2019 and it was impassable (in my opinion) beyond the remains of Tom Lucas camp. I spent an hour making about 1/4 mile progress ...

David R wrote: ↑You want a shitty firebreak hike Limerock from Little Tujunga, all loose rocks on the steep part.

I scouted that section before choosing to (wisely) come from the west

HikeUp wrote: ↑So where did you start from?

Parking lot here:

https://goo.gl/maps/1jeRxibZFt6F8jvz6

There's even a restroom!

Bingo.

Actually yea I probably will be down for that depending on the day (I have a 10 month old so getting out is tougher than it used to be). I've made it to Condor Peak before but Condor Point is my white whale of the San Gabes.

Ha, I was up there on the same day. My buddy and I heard you and your partner coming down the use trail as we were going up the established trail. We hiked from Trail Canyon. Hah! We heard you guys when we were coming down the ridge. I was able to spot you and your buddy hiking up briefly before yo...

PXL_20230107_175819591.jpg Better view of Mendenhall Ridge looking NE from summit. PXL_20230107_181246302.jpg Heading down the SW ridge from the summit. PXL_20230107_191707439.jpg Final ridge descent below Slaughter Canyon. Center Creek on our left, Gold Creek on our right. Our route up is visible ...

I moved into the foothills of the San Gabes two years ago and McKinley has been taunting me ever since. I've bagged every visible named peak I can see from my house (mostly the Mendenhall Ridge and Little Tujunga areas) but had yet to make my way there. Three years ago my wife and I backpacked the e...

I like to explore the seldom visited front range of the San Gabes and ANF during the more hospitable winter months. This is a very local peak for me and it doesn't see many visitors. There is no summit register. The hike is only 5 miles round trip, and most of it is on a forest service road until yo...

Great trip and report. Thanks!

One mom and two cubs were together, and then about an hour later a single adult. Mama put herself between us and her cubs, but they didn't move very far off trail. The single adult later would not budge no matter how much we yelled. We had to stay put for a good five minutes before he was a safe dis...

Day 5: ~15.7 miles, ~3,500' gain - Tarn above Guitar Lake to Whitney Portal Our alarm went off at 2am, and we quietly broke camp for the final time. We filled up our water bottles from a nearby spring, and made our way up the switchbacks to Trail Crest by the light of the moon and our headlamps. At...

Day 2: ~15.3 miles, ~4400' gain - Hamilton Lake to Morraine Lake (alternate) We broke camp early to get the day's biggest climb out of the way in the cool morning hours, but it was still pretty strenuous. The smoke had blown down below us overnight, so we had great views west as we made the long an...

Day 3: ~15.5 miles, ~1700' gain - Morraine Lake to Junction Meadow Woke up to bluebird skies that we would enjoy for the rest of the trail. Greeted by the incredible Sky Parlor Meadow shortly after leaving camp with Mt. Kaweah looming in the distance. Began our descent into the Kern River Canyon af...

Day 4: ~13 miles, ~4,400' gain - Junction Meadow to tarn above Guitar Lake Left camp at 5:40am to climb east and up out of the Kern River Canyon. The climb up along Wallace Creek is strenuous, but thankfully we were in shade with our early start. We were able to make it to the junction with the PCT...

Where: High Sierra Trail - Crescent Meadow in Sequoia National Park to Whitney Portal When: September 2 - September 6, 2020 Distance: ~75.2 miles, ~19,100' gain Conditions: Clear skies. Highs in the 70s, lows in the 40s. No bugs. Some smoke beginning of day one, end of day two, and end of day five....

From the inciweb page: Overnight firefighters monitored and patrolled the active areas of the fire. Burning continued in the Valley Forge and Falls Canyon areas north of Mt. Wilson, within fire containment lines with no perimeter growth reported overnight. For the past few days, this interior island...

Nearly the entire Silver Moccasin Trail has burned. Glad I managed to thruhike it a couple years ago.

Fingers crossed the Bobcat doesn't continue to burn east into the high country. Looks like it is spilling east and west down in the high desert now.

What happened at Glen Camp to start this? Why? I wish I knew. I wish I could go back to my special places in the shade of great old trees. I miss you. Current speculation is SoCal Edison. I feel like we are probably very different politically. I love LA, I love living in a city, I love seeing peopl...

Is there a new fire now east of where Bobcat is, down by the foothill cities? I can see a huge dark plume and a pyrocumulus cloud from my balcony in Silver Lake. Hard to tell exactly where it is, except it is pretty far east of Wilson, but maybe not quite as east as Baldy, and burning very low in th...