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atomicoyote
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Post by atomicoyote »

Calimountains.com looks interesting.

Suggestion: How about a thread for the Santa Ana Mountains, the lowly-bastard-stepchild of SoCal mountain ranges that has no forums on any other BB that I know of. Some good stuff can be found there - MTBing, hiking & trail running on the fire roads in the north (primarily the OC side), great hiking in the south (San Mateo Wilderness, especially west out of Wildomar). Try it for a while, see if it gets enough traffic. I'll probably do some MTBing in 'em over Thanksgiving and could put something up at that time.
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Good idea. Them's the ones in Orange County, yes? It could be "Santa Ana Range and Orange County".
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New subforum is up.
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Post by obie »

atomicoyote wrote: Calimountains.com looks interesting.

Suggestion: How about a thread for the Santa Ana Mountains, the lowly-bastard-stepchild of SoCal mountain ranges that has no forums on any other BB that I know of. .
SoCal Trailriders is pretty much all about the Santa Ana Mtns....as viewed from a MTB.

http://www.socaltrailriders.org/
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Post by mcphersonm80 »

I really like the layout of CaliMountains, especially since a lot of us get out to other ranges from time to time... Too bad it's such a pain to transfer everything over. In terms of drawing traffic (and hopefully new users) to both sites, would you recommend we cross-post trip reports on both sites?

The only pain there is that SGMDF uses html and CM uses UBB format :?
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Taco
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Post by Taco »

I have enabled HTML on CM. :-)

I'd say you might as well just post San Gabe stuff on here. Makes more sense in my opinion. Your choice obviously. I sometimes copy TR's and post them on both. :lol:
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Where do the Eispiraten go?
Nunc est bibendum
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Teejate
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Post by Teejate »

National Weather Service

This is set for Wrightwood. Click a spot on the map to grab four or five additional areas throughout the range.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... IMz-c6zI[b][/b]
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Post by Sitting Bull »

Hi everyone. I just wanted to share a new website I'm working on. It's a combination of a blog and an events calendar all about So Cal Outdoor Education. It's pretty wide open in terms of scope - anything that helps people enjoy and appreciate the outdoors more, though some of the first articles will be on bushcraft.



I welcome any suggestions re. topics. Thanks for looking. :)

http://www.wildcalendar.com
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Rad. 8)
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Post by dima »

Armchair explorers!

I stumbled upon a fantastic archive of old aerial imagery. It goes back to the 1920s, and has many, many images, at least from the urban areas of LA and the San Gabriels. If somebody wants to research old trails, or just see what their neighborhood looked like back in the day, it's quite nice:

http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/
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Post by gardonj »

Nice aerial imagery. Thanks for shairng.
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Here is a website which shows the "heatmap" for routes taken by people using the Strava App.

https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#10.80/ ... 09/hot/all

Basically the map shows the brightest routes as routes most travelled and the dim routes as routes less travelled. This should be a great tool for all of you trying to plan your next adventure to somewhere not crowded. I found new routes not found on maps. Check it out!
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Post by Sean »


jeko1034 wrote:Here is a website which shows the "heatmap" for routes taken by people using the Strava App.
Neat. This area looks super popular...

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Post by dima »

That thing looks really cool, but it's frustratingly useless. There's no legend or report attached to anything and I can't tell if a particular route was hiked by 1 person or 100 people. Grrr.
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I find good info on this site...

https://photographyontherun.com/wp/
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Post by Sean »

HikeUp wrote: I find good info on this site...

https://photographyontherun.com/wp/
Thanks. The site belongs to Gary Valle, an accomplished photographer who has been published in magazines.
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