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Looking forward to the trip report...

Fascinating about the lunar module, I didn't know about that. So I was on the Santa Clara Divide road in December of 2021 bagging 3657, and the road was freshly (and expensively) rebuilt through that area. Honestly not sure why that much money was spent on repairing it, unless of course magic mounta...

Thats an obscure one, I salute you. I haven't accessed Magic Mountain Wilderness from the north/Soledad Canyon yet. That whole area is within the realm of the Sand Fire. Not summer-friendly!

Do you have a cumulative map of some kind of your adventures?

Remarkable how often remote areas in Southern California become more remote despite there being more people here. Land use patterns have evolved in interesting ways. Do you know how many acres your friend's friend friend owns? I hope they appreciated your report. Its all Modelo Formation miocene mar...

Currently in 2nd place!!!

Mt Lukens stands as one of the most sprawling and prominent mountains around Los Angeles, and at 5,074 feet, the highest point within the city limits. It is visible to 5-6 million residents on a daily basis, including myself. Mt Lukens holds the special significance of being one of the very few moun...

Great flower pics!! I did that hike a couple years ago with my wife... I remember it was the first time I had ever really looked at Condor Peak before, and was like.... DANG I didn't know the western San Gabes had peaks like that! We turned around just a little before you did. Nice views of the Chri...

I wonder where this is. It looks like low elevation. By "guy who went who missing in January" you refer to the one last seen on Mt Wilson? He is still unrecovered?

Awesome!

Way to represent the ice pirates by taking an off-trail shortcut. How many others competed and how did you finish? Did your unconventional route help or hurt your time?

Great way to see a lot of remote territory. I want to explore more Los Padres. Your experience with the two rattlesnakes reminds me of a reoccuring stress dream I've had where in the process of trying to avoid a rattlesnake I realize I'm actually surrounded by them with no escape...

From all reports its an intimidating but exciting challenge I'm down to attempt with the right people, yourself included Matt! The weekends you specify are tentatively available for me. Will June be cool enough?

Truly a day of appreciation for Jeff!

Nice, never hiked in the Lake Hughes area but looks like a good hike for a cloudy day. Mt Lukens is on my to-do list as well. I want to come up the 'Kill 'em Quick' and follow the camel back ridge to the summit. Then probably go down one of the other trails for a point to point with quick car shuttl...

Great hike! It's cool you could complete a loop down the steepest side. I've had some run ins with road cuts, too. Yes road cuts seem trivial, but a 10 foot cliff that stretches unbroken for a mile along a mountainside can definitely fuck up your route... Can you re-post the GIS link? I'm being laz...

Thanks for the report. Glad you found the optimum route and avoided the poison oak. Was there a register? No register, and not much of a cairn. I know you found a register in 2015, but I'm guessing it was lost in the Sand Fire the next year. The summit is pretty minimalist in every single way excep...

Good Friday was a holiday for me, so while the kid was in daycare I took the opportunity to bag this pointy peak I'd been meaning to for quite some time. I sorta had been saving it for when my father was in town, but these days I've got a different San Gabriel mountain adventure to do with him that ...

Sunlessgunless 1.97 miles 568 feet of gain 2348 ft elevation I got my first day off after working for 13 straight days, so I took advantage of it to spend time with two of my favorite things that I had been neglecting - Forest and the mountains. I planned this hike the morning of, perusing google e...

Was it actively snowing much or was the snow in the air what had already fallen, and was getting blown around by the wind?

Awesome stuff, mad respect.

"Daintydie" 2.83 miles 2,248 ft high 718 ft of gain The hummocky, badlands-esque Cenozoic deposits of the Santa Clarita Valley bestowed yet another delightful preschool-sized mountain to conquer in Los Pinetos Canyon just to the north of Placerita Canyon Rd. The trailhead itself was busy,...

I did that very hike Christmas Eve of 2018 when I got stuck at home all by my lonesome self for Christmas, and then came down it on a different hike November of 2022. A good little workout! Not really sure why that trailhead is so popular, but the whims of the public can be hard to explain....

Yeah, if I'm following correctly "Lopez Canyon Park" is the access point you seek to avoid all the supposedly private road nonsense up there. I know this area well, lots of adventures started and ended here. Geographically I think closest access point to the San Gabriel Mtns from where I l...

What Nate is awkwardly trying to say here is that certain members of the group with accumulated wisdom acquired through many years of experience recognized immediately the perils on continuing, while other more impetuous members with less years under their belts had to investigate further before ha...

Here is a closeup of where we turned around on the 2-ft interval LA county GIS map. Screen Shot 2024-02-26 at 6.28.27 PM.png Another half mile up that ridge, we would encounter the top of that big sandstone outcrop that I'm looking at here (circled): DSC01049.JPG Here is what *that* looks like close...

Definitely a memorable hike for sure! Peak 2Nate66 was very pretty and we were all perfectly content with not continuing with that sketchy rope. Lots of class 3 scrambling everywhere with the occasional sagebrush climbing. That photo jeko1034 has of the rope as we found it leading down the ridge......

That rock outcropping before the bench is called Tick Peak.I see that rope was still there, I was up on that peak a couple of years ago. There is someone that has been creating trails along a lot of those ridges. Another enjoyable one goes over to the outlook above Pico Canyon and hits Towsley Peak...

I've had this hike on my to-do list for a while in one of my favorite areas around the San Fernando Valley: The north side of the Santa Susanna Mountains. I see little mention of the area in a lot of the hiking community, but it can be surprisingly scenic and rugged, not to mention easily accessible...

Looks like a great hike for the winter.

Crossing the threshold between the worlds of the Arroyo Seco and the Tujunga....

"Deekadeekadaya" (AKA Contract Point) 1.67 miles 881 ft of gain The same morning we explored Sand Canyon, Forest and I also drove up to Bear Divide and up the Santa Clara Rd to check out Contract Point, an overlook I've been deterred from for the last year by road closures. The Santa Clar...

"Sand Run Canyon" (Sand Canyon scouting) 1.25 Miles 216 ft gain I've had on my to-do list hiking up Sand Canyon, hopefully following it all the way up to bag Magic Mountain. That 10+mile cross country hike wasn't going to happen with Forest this past Saturday, but knowing how much Forest ...