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ooh nice job! that seems like a great idea... so at what point is the road closed off to cars? how many cars passed you on the way up/down? :P Highway 39 is closed off to cars about 2 miles past West fork road at 2000 feet elevation. Crystal Lake is about 11 miles past the closure and at 5600 feet....

For the last few weeks my gf and I have been going up to Monrovia canyon to ride our bikes. I talked to the ranger there and he said they see alot of bears up there and the best time to see them is usually midweek at night, so thats when we go. Well so far we havent seen a bear up there but we have ...

I finally biked highway 39, up insted of down. :D My gf and I rode from the lower gate up to Crystal Lake on Sunday. It was extremely hot the whole time and there is virtually no shade, we started at 10:30 in the morning. It took us about 4 hours to get to the lake. On the way up we ran out of water...

Nice essay. 8) I have always enjoyed your trip reports about climbing in the mountians. I agree with you that the mountians are a badass place even if the San Gabriels have crappy rock. I always thought it was cool that you find intersting routes that most others wouldnt take especially in Icehouse ...

Last Friday at about 11:30 at night my gf and I were crusin around looking for wildlife on the Glendora Mountian road and Ridge road and were almost ran off the road by a pack of Subaru's hauling ass around curves swerving into my lane..... :evil: :evil: :evil:..........Anywayz it looks like a badas...

Sorry to hear about your dog. It's really difficult to lose a pet, because they become our friends, and it's always hard to lose a friend.........RIP Lucy

Past Cabin Flat along Parire Fork somewhere, would be a good spot. It doesn't look like many people go down there, and when I was there I saw animal tracks. Theres excellent waterflow in the creek, it's really bushy and looks like the kind of place bears and mountian lions live.........

Sounds like a nice trip! Btw, in Photo 33 in your album, it looks like there's a picnic table in the middle of a creek??! What was that all about? Im not sure how that table got there, what I was thinking is the table may have been washed away from the campground during runoff from melting snow int...

Nice pictures, the San Gorgonio Wilderness is such a cool place............It must of been fun hiking in the rain and hail !!!!!!!! 8) 8) 8)

Vincent Gap to Praire Fork/Mine Gulch/E Fork SG River is in OK shape. The trail is gone the last mile or so as you approach the confluence, but you just walk down the open creekbed; no biggie. Thanks for the trail info...... I have been eyeing that area for a while now, but my gf is scared to go do...

My gf and I went camping Tuesday 5/26 through Thursday 5/28 in the San Gabriels. 8) The 1st day we drove around, first we went to the summit of Mount Pacifico. There we ate our lunch and spent a while climbing on all the large rock piles. Some of them are pretty large and difficult to get up. My gf ...

As I was about to set off on a little walk up Lewis, a car pulls up and its brian90620 and his girlfriend. Nice to meet you both. We enjoyed a little chat and I headed up the hill. It was nice meeting you too and thanks for all the information about wildlife and hiking in the area. We had an excell...

Is it possible to bike down Highway 39 from Islip Saddle to the gate near the West Fork. :D I mean is the road in good enough condition or is there major damage somewhere that would make this impossible? Also... what is enforcement like in the closed area, am I likely to get in somesort of trouble f...

Today I went for a quick hike up Eaton Canyon to the main waterfall. My mission while hiking up to the first falls was to find the route (for a future trip) up the side of the canyon that takes you to the 2nd falls that has a deep pool and a natural "waterslide". I think I found it, it's o...

Mount Waterman is a very nice, farily easy hike :D http://localhikes.com/Hikes/WatermanMountain_4472.asp Also I have been wanting to do the BigHorn Mine but have not got around to it yet. It looks like it would be a pretty cool & easy hike: http://localhikes.com/Hikes/BigHornMine_4472.asp One mo...

Nice pictures ............ It's really cool that he stopped and let you take his picture.......... 8) Here's a picture of one My gf and I saw on ACH near Mt Waterman http://picasaweb.google.com/brian90620/ ... 6016641490

Nice pictures, looks pretty cool 8) . I've always wanted to do this this hike but never got around to it, because my gf, who I usually hike with, has never wanted to go here due to the water crossings and having to hike through water. I don't know whats up with her, I think it would be fun too cool ...

anf employees are fail. maybe it's because they are understaffed, underpaid, underfunded, whatever, but I've gotten so many incorrect statements from them, it drives me crazy. I agree 100% with this statement. They never know anything, they don't know when roads or campgrounds are going to reopen. ...

Thanks Tim!!!!!!!

Does anyone happen to know when the Angeles Crest Highway is going to reopen between Islip Saddle and Vincent Gap. I heard from a ranger at the Grassy Hollow Visitor Center that opening day should be this month. Then I asked another ranger on Friday and he said end of summer.

cougarmagic wrote: I didn't know we had roadrunners - until I saw Matt's post, I was thinking you must have just seen quail.

After looking at pictures online I'm pretty sure what we saw were quails, not roadrunners........ Im not that good when it comes to identifying birds

My gf and I went up to the San Gabriels yesterday just to drive around, on dirt roads, the Santa Clara Divide road and a few other places we hadnt been for a while. Anyways we got really lucky :D and saw a pretty good amount of wildlife, maybe because it was raining/ sprinkling. We saw a bobcat spri...

lilbitmo wrote:Rick Wrote

Are you guys still planning on the Baldy / Iron / Baden-Powell Deathmarch?

This weekend I'm doing Ortega Highway to 91 freeway over the Santa Ana's.

Lilbitmo

Now that sounds like a Deathmarch to me in this heat!!!!!!!!!

Nice trip report, My gf and I also saw one of the those blue lizards on the North Devils Backbone trail near the summit of Pine Mountian last summer and it was huge. It looked exactly like the one you saw but the one we saw was almost completly blue. Anyways, cool pics and thanks for sharing all the...

Cool pics and thanks for the trip report 8) , Ive been thinking about going there soon....... Hermit Falls is definitly one of my favorite places in all of the San Gabriels............ To bad fu@king idiots have too tag all over it :evil:...... Last time I was there I even saw trout in the creek bel...

I went up the ski hut trail last week 4/8 and it was almost 100% snowfree to the hut, after that the snow varies between snow free in the areas with lots of sun exposure and lots of snow in the more shaded areas. The final ridge to the top of the mountian was still nearly completely covered with har...

Frickin' graffiti on the goddamn summit plaque?! It sucks when people decide to tag all over sh*t, :evil: especially on a summit plaque.......If you think about it, it's hard to believe a tagger would hike all the way up to the top of the mountian anyways, I always thought those type of people were...

Went to Mount Baldy yesterday 4/8 via the ski hut trail. :D When I arrived there were clear skies and about a half inch to 1 inch of new snow on the ground. Once I got close to the ski hut clouds really started moving in and the visibilty drasticaly declined and I could no longer see the summit. All...

Nice pictures and great trip report !!! It sure looked like a perfect day for a hike... 8)

My gf and I made it up to the summit via the northwest ridge on Saturday 3/21. :D The snow conditions have changed drastically since last weekend, :x all the snow at Islip saddle is now gone and not much snow remains behind the road closure. You really dont encounter full snow coverage until your ab...