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He219 · Last edited by He219 on Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:33 am; edited 1 time in total

See simonov's Sleep on the Summit of Mt San Gorgonio Halloween Lollipop ..

Headed up at 7am as a group of seven via South Fork to Dollar Lake and along the Jepson ridge route.
Reached the summit at 3:40pm and setup camp.

Temps only went down to 35F with very mild wind and a beautiful full moon.
We had a little Halloween party with wine, cookies, kitkat and recess cups.
It was a long 13 hour night from sunset at 6pm to sunrise at 5:56am, plus an extra hour for the end of daylight savings.

Couple of pix:

Snowcreek within grasp!

Halloween madness ..

Sunset Shadow of SanG over 29 Palms

Sunrise, Nov. 1st with Salton Sea clearly visible.

Sunrise Shadow of SanG over the San Gabriels

Group Shot

Homeward bound ..

Elwood · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:27 am Post subject:

Very nice! Looks like a lot of fun.

simonov · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:10 am Post subject:

My pics aren't up yet, but will be here later this week.

But this summit panorama gives an idea of how clear the air was on Sunday morning:

Pan looking west and southwest from Mt San Gorgonio

The summit is my favorite trail camp in the San Gorgonio Wilderness. It's just a little challenging to get to.

It was 13 miles down via Dry Lake, a pretty long haul for me and hard on my feets. I was glad to see the parking lot.

BTW, the guy at the right in the group shot above is Sharo. He is 66 years old and this is his third backpack trip. He did great.
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edenooch · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 363 Location: Eagle rock

cool comrade

TacoDelRio · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:38 am Post subject:

Some pics

Jepson's summit

Hole tree

New neighbors

PICTURE TAKING A PICTURE TAKING A PICTURE

SUMMIT VIKINGS! They do not respect your pathetic bearproof canisters.

Couldn't sleep at all

Bivy time

Dawn

lilbitmo · Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Posts: 444 Location: Orange County

Nice Trip Simonov, Taco and company.

Did any of the Bighorn Sheep come up for breakfast? Very Happy

How about other hikers from the Vivian Side?

Who won best costume this year?

And since Taco was the Russian this year, did he remember the "Vodka"? Shocked

TacoDelRio · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject:

We all forgot our booze. Sad

Zach · Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 237 Location: Ridgecicle

very nice photo... was that taken with a tripod and long exposure?
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TacoDelRio · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject:

How would you know about my tripod, Zach? Laughing

I put it on a rock next to me, long exposure.

simonov · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:52 am Post subject:

Finally got all the pics up last night.

I was hoping Hikin' Jim could take a moment from diaper duty to see if he could shed any light on this:

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