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Looks like he had to abandon at Morro Bay. That sucks, hope he's OK. What a spectacular effort though.

I'd say "Break a leg!" but that hardly seems appropriate in bicycle racing circles. Good luck!!!

Yeah, I thought that, too, when I saw the pic. It's the same spot. They spent a lot, did a lot of work, and it's broken again. Last time it was so bad, the only feasible bypass was to hoof it directly up-slope and meet the road above.

Wow, variety! It's been such a great bloom this year. Wife and I were at Rocky Peak on Friday, lots of flowers...and lots of bees!

re: snow I did the long, long, loooooong drive to Islip Saddle on Saturday (4-MAY). Snow is the theme. Cloudburst Summit to Islip Saddle, snow is 40%-70% coverage from 7000-8000 ft/2100-2500 m on north slopes, and above that it looks continuous. I altered plans and doubled back to Chilao, which is v...

Wow, that is some nice work! Thanks. Looks like spearmint in the foreground.

@Taco re: SPD comments in the very old Sierra Tour thread This is probably old, you may have sussed it out already. In addition to the 'ski binding' effect, there are a couple other benefits like not really having to think about foot position, just mash to click and you have the same, precise locati...

I'm floored! "By fair means" is an understatement. I remember years ago there was a guy on SummitPost, Josh something, who rode to all his climbs. He seemed to relish describing the blood'n'guts of injury. He and his brother went on to do some amazing stuff in Cascadia. Now I'm thinking ab...

You cad! Real 12-points? Any balling in that luscious spring velvet? First time I ever saw sastrugi and corduroy was on the summit of Baldy.

There's a report on TrailForks (with lurid photo) about a huge slide blocking Shortcut just north of the ford of West Fork. Looks impassable bad. Options for accessing the mid-country are getting pretty thin, even for us persistent types.

I've spent a lot of time there. It's quite sad to see this. I haven't been back since the fire. There are several documented rock climbing routes, and lots of opportunity to get hurt. It's generally bad rock, but has good layers. I think the county may have forbade bolt replacement, so all the belay...

Sean wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:28 am Was that bear print huge?

I'd say about average adult. I've seen bigger...and been worried. The tracks I saw closer to Cienega may have included a mother-cub pair.

This is my ride log at TrailForks I walked down about half, including the 'up' over several peaklets. It's jeep width the whole way, but very overgrown in places and very rutted in places, and just brutally steep. On the recent Goggle Earth images, it's barely visible in places, snaking across the f...

Did you just out yourself as a "life-long programmer"??? Want to help fix with the image recovery? :) I suspect I travel in a very different realm...and I'm aging out. Mostly it's C#/db stuff, but I've done all kinds of crazy things including (YUCK!) PHP. If you can describe the problem, ...

OK, this, too. Mineral King reminds me of Bruce Bindner, AKA Brutus of Wyde. Before SummitPost and such, the rec.climbing newsgroup was the place to hang out. Bindner was one of a small gang of superbeings who populated the place. Brutus of Wyde, Nurse Ratchet, Dingus Milquetoast, Burl Guido, all ps...

Sorry to wake a slumbering thread. I'm trying to get through the backlog of great TRs, just starting this one and it's a doozy! :D The steep jump to Walker Basin is locally called the Lion's Trail. I've had too many close calls on that road to want to zip around up there in a real car. Sure is prett...

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 coul...

Long ago, two kids accosted me for my chocolate. It was a Toblerone bar, "dark chocolate" I said. They pressed. I gave them each a chunk and went about my business. Thirty minutes later I return to the scene to find 2 chunks of melting gold lying on the pavement...kids off to their next co...

Ha! Spectacular. I dropped in to post on my Castaic adventure, another non-San Gabriel non-hike, and find this wonderful epic. Where's the god damn Like button :) I fully endorse this sentiment...for what that's worth. :P Sometimes, I feel I haven't anything to say, and just posting 1.44 column inch...

Looks like a grand day out! I can see why random hiker had that preference. Yeah, kinda the long route. HEHE!!! The good fields are the opposite, southwest, side of Liebre. I-5 -> CA-138 -> Old Ridge Route -> past Sandberg a few km to the start of 7N23 . You can also park at Sandberg and take Golden...

Quite dapper, eh? :lol: Great shot! I was out for a ride in Topanga SP this afternoon. I had a narrow escape within minutes of leaving the trailhead, didn't see but I sprinted out of range. Saw 4 more along the way: 1) stretched across Temescal Road leisurely-like, 2) roadside coiled and ready, 3) o...

What?!? I still see good trailbed there. Quick pass with a McCloud, ship shape!

When I was in Scouts, 'Allison' was a fear word. That was purt'near 45 years ago.

Those stickers are like the secret glyphs used by the transients in that one Sherlock Holmes story. Guy leaves a certain glyph on a friendly house, and fellow travelers know a warm meal and possibly more is available if you put in the effort to ask. You see that sticker, and you can almost smell the...

@Hiker Girl: Thanks for linking to this from my post. These are great pics! Horse CG...so PCT? I haven't been on this section, but I've done Golden Eagle Trail, pretty neat. I'm hopeful the oak forest on the summit makes a recovery. I still saw a lot of mistletoe, but signs that the trees are gettin...

Hehe...ugh, what a drive. And I only have one measly pic to show for it. :) 06-APR-2024 Plan A: I tried again, and was thwarted again, to do the Warm Springs Mtn loop north of Castaic Lake. Water is still too high. My prior fail was a safety concern (water was really bad), but yesterday the river le...

@AW: I'm not seeing any of the pictures, and I think these are some that I really want to see. Thanks for the vids.

Very cool! I'm slightly claustrophobic, so it's an extra kick. I didn't know about these, may now visit. The other really good ones I've been to are Lava Beds NM in Modoc (other corner of the state), and Lava River Cave in Oregon. In the latter, you were (~1980) issued Coleman kerosene lanterns for ...

Most water I've see up there! WOW! The shot of the 'succulent'-like plant...I don't know what kind of plant that is, but have seen it before. There is a roadside rock along Mt Wilson Rd that faces the road, nearly vertical, nearly rectangular. It's split into 4 quadrants, not equal but symmetric. Th...

Lowelifes were out working the Kenyon Devore/Gabrielino junction area yesterday, as well as some of the remaining 'big problems' on Kenyon Devore. The sutter wall at the Blackberry Falls crossing (KD) is being replaced, and the re-re-re-growth of Strudel-Daag is being cut again. The improvements on...

Ah! Great stuff!!! Happy B-day! The south side is my backyard, frequently ride/hike there. The road up Browns Canyon is now open, was closed to public decades ago. There are frequent movie-making activities on a parking flat a few km above the Nike base, and I have been stopped by movie folk from ri...