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by HikeUp
Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What in tarnation?!
Replies: 24
Views: 3877

Re: What in tarnation?!

They COULD be. Do you want them to be? What's the reference for those names? Sure, they might as well be on OSM. They're very well established informal names, and they appear on Peakbagger and MapBuilder Topo. I don't know when people started calling the bumps by those names. It might predate the i...
by HikeUp
Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My
Replies: 19
Views: 2690

Re: My "Radius" hiking project history

dima wrote: Yours is very un-shabby also! I imagine many people here have exciting cumulative maps. Let's see them!
I have dozens of San Gabriel hikes in individual kmz files. Gonna try to put them all in one big kmz file.
by HikeUp
Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:33 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: High on 'Neight Thousand'
Replies: 15
Views: 2551

Re: High on 'Neight Thousand'

I see you found treepeople ridge quite different....thanks to them and their saplings planted <1 inch apart, you get a wonderful world of fakery. @AW~ here's a picture I took of you heading down towards N81K back in Nov, 2010. Luckily we dropped off the ridge to the west before we got down to N81K,...
by HikeUp
Sun Aug 27, 2023 10:57 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: High on 'Neight Thousand'
Replies: 15
Views: 2551

Re: High on 'Neight Thousand'

nice trek.

Welcome to Tim. Are you Tim Le? @Tim
by HikeUp
Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My
Replies: 19
Views: 2690

Re: My "Radius" hiking project history

Can we upload a kmz file?
by HikeUp
Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My
Replies: 19
Views: 2690

Re: My "Radius" hiking project history

Does bear spray work under water?
by HikeUp
Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My
Replies: 19
Views: 2690

Re: My "Radius" hiking project history

Nate U wrote: I’ll start looking towards other planets, which maybe Dima can help with.
I knew it. @dima's a martian.
by HikeUp
Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:53 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures
Replies: 37
Views: 5345

Re: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures

Figures
by HikeUp
Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures
Replies: 37
Views: 5345

Re: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures

David R wrote: I was wondering if anyone wanted to join in with me in a flash mob and we could go visit REI?
Let's get a mob and overun the skihut...trundle any Forest Rangers or LEOs over the edge.
by HikeUp
Wed Aug 16, 2023 1:49 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures
Replies: 37
Views: 5345

Re: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures

I got a notice for jury duty. Its so rude..the man wasting my time. Ill just vote not guilty if they catch me avoiding....after all if he is axe murderer, its not my problem. Sucks to be them...the jury. Or victim..but again Im my own man. There was a line of waiting cars...and a guy honking like a...
by HikeUp
Wed Aug 16, 2023 1:46 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures
Replies: 37
Views: 5345

Re: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures

Sean wrote:
HikeUp wrote: Full disclosure...

I don't give a shit what happens on Baldy.
But do you care what happens on NHPS Baldy?
Quantify the "N".
by HikeUp
Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:59 am
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures
Replies: 37
Views: 5345

Re: Probable Mt Baldy winter closures

Full disclosure...

I don't give a shit what happens on Baldy.
by HikeUp
Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:53 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: Allison Gulch Falls
Replies: 25
Views: 3717

Re: Allison Gulch Falls

Good kitty.

No more lobster rolls now. Damn you!!!
by HikeUp
Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:08 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: Allison Gulch Falls
Replies: 25
Views: 3717

Re: Allison Gulch Falls

Okay then. Never gonna leave the house now!!! ;)
by HikeUp
Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:55 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: Allison Gulch Falls
Replies: 25
Views: 3717

Re: Allison Gulch Falls

Thanks for the TR.

I'd bet that it was a spider bite. Nasty beasts. I don't think we have scorpions around here do we?
by HikeUp
Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:30 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Angeles Crest Highway (CA-2)
Replies: 639
Views: 14709

Re: Angeles Crest Highway (CA-2)

Wherever it is, it is west of the intersection of Upper Big T and ACH. So why is ACH closed east of that same intersection?
by HikeUp
Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:26 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Angeles Crest Highway (CA-2)
Replies: 639
Views: 14709

Re: Angeles Crest Highway (CA-2)

HikeUp: the water tank on the ridge towards the right of your photo is the West end of Barley Flats. The same tank is visible in one of courtney's photos. I still don't see it in your photo, though. It might be just out of view, or maybe behind something, since it's a very different angle. Ah! I di...
by HikeUp
Sat Aug 12, 2023 12:43 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Angeles Crest Highway (CA-2)
Replies: 639
Views: 14709

Re: Angeles Crest Highway (CA-2)

Took this picture from San Gabriel Peak on May 13, 2023. Where's the slide? There was a group of us from this forum up there on that day...anyone happen to get a picture of the slide?

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by HikeUp
Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:24 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: Crystal Lake & Soldier Creek
Replies: 4
Views: 1388

Re: Crystal Lake & Soldier Creek

Nice bit of water still!

I like this map of the area...does it still look accurate with what you saw?

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by HikeUp
Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: INTROS - New members, introduce yourself here!
Replies: 301
Views: 11502

Re: INTROS - New members, introduce yourself here!

i actually have done, with this photo at the ready, but it was a few years ago! i got confused at the time because all the (current) tubes i saw were pointing toward the city. but since you said “in the vicinity of” i surely just need to do a bit more poking around. i love a good treasure hunt. :) ...
by HikeUp
Sun Aug 06, 2023 5:15 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)
Replies: 158
Views: 14011

Re: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)

Any info regarding whether he fell, medical issue, snake bite, etc?
by HikeUp
Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: INTROS - New members, introduce yourself here!
Replies: 301
Views: 11502

Re: INTROS - New members, introduce yourself here!

Welcome.

I like TRs. I encourage everyone to write up even the smallest hikes.
by HikeUp
Fri Jul 28, 2023 5:05 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: Mendenhall peak
Replies: 15
Views: 2206

Re: Mendenhall peak

Read Dune 12 years after it was published. I've been dreaming of getting a stillsuit ever since. And curiously enough, there's this bit of background to Dune ... "...he was influenced by the story of T. E. Lawrence and the "messianic overtones" in Lawrence's involvement in the Arab Re...
by HikeUp
Fri Jul 28, 2023 3:39 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: Mendenhall peak
Replies: 15
Views: 2206

Re: Mendenhall peak

David R wrote:
HikeUp wrote: Think Sir Lawrence of Arabia!
You've just shown your age, also wear light colors they absorb less heat think Raiders of the Lost Ark
60 is not an age! It's a warning ;)
by HikeUp
Fri Jul 28, 2023 2:58 pm
Forum: San Gabriels
Topic: Mendenhall peak
Replies: 15
Views: 2206

Re: Mendenhall peak

Think Sir Lawrence of Arabia!
by HikeUp
Thu Jul 27, 2023 7:32 am
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)
Replies: 158
Views: 14011

Re: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)

I should have refered to it as the connector trail to the Bill Cull trail. 15 years ago this connector trail was HPS route 1...since deleted from HPS site. Bob Burd was able to follow it and noted the 4 palm trees. I also tried to follow it but was turned back by excessive overgrowth amd numerous ra...
by HikeUp
Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:37 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)
Replies: 158
Views: 14011

Re: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)

Or on his way out?
by HikeUp
Wed Jul 19, 2023 7:20 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)
Replies: 158
Views: 14011

Re: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)

Coverage...
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by HikeUp
Wed Jul 19, 2023 4:16 pm
Forum: News & Conditions
Topic: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)
Replies: 158
Views: 14011

Re: Missing forum member (Colin Walker)

Flightradar. Helo been hovering for quite a while...
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