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We were hiking up Union Wash in the hopes of finding Ammonites (Didn't find much) and came across a use trail. It is up the wash from where the canyon narrows down and is just before the third class in the wash. There is a carron on the south side of the wash and a use trail switchbacks up the scree slope. I followed it approx 800 vert feet and it continued on. Looks like ...

I went up Angeles Crest on Sunday, January 17, 2010 and took these pictures. Until a little over a week ago I didn't even know it was open, but a friend of mine told me how he brought his kids up towards Mt. Waterman to play in the snow. On Sunday, when I went up there, the road was closed at Redbox, so all the pictures are from below that area. I stopped by the ...

footprint of a stormy week, derived from http://water.weather.gov.



The above map appears to total rainfall for the previous day. So the Sunday 1-17-2010 map appears to show precipitation for Saturday. Thus the annotated date 1-17-2010 that is Sunday show "Sat". Note I am no meterologist, just a long time keen weather follower. My decades of chasing fresh powder skiing about Tahoe and photog landscape work otherwise has a ...

all i wanna know is how far is it from Ramon rd up the lykken trail to skyline trail to the 2650 elevation marker! ive looked on too many sites to count and just wanna know how far im going every day! if anyone knows PLEASE e-mail me the distance at 93ludegirl@gmail.com. thank you!

Looking for perched synclines !
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This in the most recent issue of Rock & Ice (March '10; not even sure how this is possible as it's not even February! rockandice.com)- an article called 'The Hard Way,' about a man (Daniel Arnold) who made it his quest to recreate influental early Sierra climbs, using the same equipment restrictions that the climbers back then faced. The article is based out of this book: http://www.annieblooms.com/event/daniel-arnold-presents-early-days-range-light

The end of the article finds the author, ...

I dunno; I like that road and it would be fine if they would've taken proper measures in the past. Doing controlled burns would not have caused the inferno we had in the fall and would not have caused the landslides we have now. It also would not have caused the owner of Newcombs wanting to close shop because the road is always closed... I feel for the guy; they gave him 1.5h notice that ...

I'm in the planning phase for a Trans-Sierra Ski about 6 weeks out and am looking at a route I haven't been able to find much information on. Going West to East I'm hoping to start at Edison Lake (via snowmobile access) and ski the Mono Creek Trail over to Mono Pass. We'll drop down into Rock Creek Canyon from Mono Pass where we'll meet our wives at the Rock Creek Lodge. Hopefully if we ...

Better batten down the hatches. During the next week the Sierra's will be hit with up to 10 ft. of snow. TWC also says that the SF bay area will get hit with very heavy rains~ up to 15in. Time to get the shovels out. :shock: Then, a few days after it all stops... time to get out the AT gear..........Woo Hoo! ...