EISPIRATEN

Fun fact: Henry Diltz is a photography who took a number of famous photos of rock musicians from the 60s and 70s and Jimmy Webb is an accomplished songwriter. According to Wikipedia, Diltz was filming when they crashed but the film didn't survive...

Great photos! I went down there this morning as well (out and back from Eaton Saddle) and it's incredibly lush and beautiful right now. Very green, but also a lot of tall weeds with those pokey things that get stuck in socks made the trail a bit overgrown in places (I did many tick checks and didn't...

Maybe there are some good pickin's if it's busy. Ha, maybe! I think I need to get louder when I am hiking, maybe by blasting bad dance music out of my iPhone (kidding). Or buy a bear bell. I keep nearly typing beer. Beer bell. Beer sighting. Beer on the Mt. Lowe Railway Trail. Maybe the bear was lo...

This morning I was on the segment of the Mt. Lowe Railway trail between Echo Mountain and the Cape of Good Hope when I came upon a black bear. It saw me and wasn't frightened in the least. I, on the other hand, was trying not to pee myself and backed away to give it space. It sunned itself on an out...

Hi, I'm Courtney. I currently live in the South Bay but my heart belongs to Pasadena. I started hiking about three years ago after moving to Pasadena from elsewhere (with crappy hiking) and I do it now as often as I can. So far the San Gabriels are my favorite but I am working on branching out. Real...

I was on Mt. Disappointment in the early afternoon and was flummoxed by the chainsaw crew. I hadn't seen...er, heard that before. I attempted to go down the trail on the side of San Gabriel Peak down to Mt. Lowe Road but found the trail a bit too dicey from the recent storms and that, coupled with s...