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I'm looking for a backpacking loop in the Palisades. I came across this old article in Backpacker magazine: https://www.backpacker.com/trips/kings- ... palisades/

The route given goes over 5 passes, and includes quite specific waypoints:

WPT001
Location: 37.171055, -118.566041
WPT002
Location: 37.084074, -118.54321
Knapsack Pass
WPT003
Location: 37.095269, -118.525074
Thunderbolt Pass
WPT004
Location: 37.087614, -118.491978
Scimitar Pass
WPT005
Location: 37.120388, -118.534222
Jigsaw ...

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I'm pretty confused with the online permitting system at recreation.gov.

In one place I read that all permits must be requested online or on the phone and that there are no walk-ins.

When I go to the trailhead listings, under availability it says walk-ins. Tried the ranger station (closed today) and called the number for the permit office provided on the ranger station's recorded message, and that rang for 15 minutes before I gave up. ...

Anyone been to Greenough Ridge north of Montgomery Woods State Reserve?

Can someone send a photo of Bloody Couloir on the N side of Bloody Mt?
Thanks,
Donno

Hello everyone
Does anyone have any recent photos or beta on the current conditions of the Dana Couloir? Much appreciated. Also, do any of you want to climb it? Thanks, David

Alaska - A Roundup of Expeditions

https://explorersweb.com/2021/05/25/ala ... peditions/ -- Alaska : A Roundup of Expeditions .

https://gripped.com/news/b-c-climber-se ... nali-fall/

A park ranger stumbled across a major fossil find in an undisclosed location somewhere in the Mokelumne River Watershed in the Sierra foothills, including what looks to be a petrified forest and a 400lb salmon. :o

In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, paleontologists have uncovered a collection of fossils, including an eight-million-year-old mastodon skull with both tusks intact, a rhino skeleton, a giant ...