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Zé

Buck Point Loop

http://socalhikes.com/2009/09/buck-point-loop/
TacoDelRio

Wish I coulda gone! (not)
Hikin_Jim

Re: Buck Point Loop

Zé wrote:
http://socalhikes.com/2009/09/buck-point-loop/
Dude, stay away from that brush unless it's a really worth while hike.  Do too much brush and you'll get to the point where you won't do it even on really cool hikes.  Like me.  Smile
edenooch

From the looks of that pic. Your barely missed running over the bear crap on your departure!........maybe next time Rolling Eyes
RichardK

Speaking of brush

Am I correct that there is no way to hike from the end of Etiwanda Avenue to 1N34 without plowing through sticker bushes?  That is how I am reading these trip reports.
Zé

Re: Buck Point Loop

Hikin_Jim wrote:
Zé wrote:
http://socalhikes.com/2009/09/buck-point-loop/
Dude, stay away from that brush unless it's a really worth while hike.  Do too much brush and you'll get to the point where you won't do it even on really cool hikes.  Like me.  Smile


lol very true. i'm mean, i was hiking this and I'm like, all this for Buck Point?

Prefer to save for mine exploration...
Zé

edenooch wrote:
From the looks of that pic. Your barely missed running over the bear crap on your departure!........maybe next time Rolling Eyes


someone else's steps! i don't step in shit!
Zé

Re: Speaking of brush

RichardK wrote:
Am I correct that there is no way to hike from the end of Etiwanda Avenue to 1N34 without plowing through sticker bushes?  That is how I am reading these trip reports.


from the two ridges I checked out - nope.

there is allegedly another way up via Foxbourough road, that may have more potential. I'll not be finding out anytime soon.
HikeUp

At this time of year can't you just drive up 1N34 from Lytle Creek Road?

You didn't go over to San Sevaine Lookout?
AW

Re: Buck Point Loop

Zé wrote:
Hikin_Jim wrote:
Zé wrote:
http://socalhikes.com/2009/09/buck-point-loop/
Dude, stay away from that brush unless it's a really worth while hike.  Do too much brush and you'll get to the point where you won't do it even on really cool hikes.  Like me.  Smile


lol very true. i'm mean, i was hiking this and I'm like, all this for Buck Point?

Prefer to save for mine exploration...


How about some american indian writings/art?
Zé

HikeUp wrote:
At this time of year can't you just drive up 1N34 from Lytle Creek Road?

You didn't go over to San Sevaine Lookout?


Moi?

Maybe you could, but I didn't want to drive that far. Rather hike

Too lazy to add 2 more miles to what we did and bag Sam Sevaine Lookuot Razz
Zé

Re: Buck Point Loop

AW wrote:

How about some american indian writings/art?


sure. where?
AW

Re: Buck Point Loop

Zé wrote:
AW wrote:

How about some american indian writings/art?

sure. where?


http://www.ci.azusa.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=569
"Many of these markings have been noted several hundred feet above the canyon bottom in the vicinity of Rattlesnake Gulch"

Hehehehe.. Very Happy .
HikeUp

Zé wrote:
HikeUp wrote:
At this time of year can't you just drive up 1N34 from Lytle Creek Road?

You didn't go over to San Sevaine Lookout?


Moi?

Maybe you could, but I didn't want to drive that far. Rather hike

Too lazy to add 2 more miles to what we did and bag Sam Sevaine Lookuot Razz

Seriously, did those guys shooting over your bow drive up there or did they bushwhack their way up there? I was thinking of driving up to as close to Buck Point as possible then going up to Etiwanda (if that trail still exists). Any thoughts? I love to off road as much as possible! Would be good to combine off-roading and hiking!
Zé

interesting.

i'm assuming rattlesnake gulch is the same as rattlesnake canyon?
Zé

HikeUp wrote:

Seriously, did those guys shooting over your bow drive up there or did they bushwhack their way up there? I was thinking of driving up to as close to Buck Point as possible then going up to Etiwanda (if that trail still exists). Any thoughts? I love to off road as much as possible! Would be good to combine off-roading and hiking!


oh yeah they drove up, from the east. didn't know there was a trail up to Etiwanda (up a ridge heading north?). that would be a good combo!
Zé

actually etiwanda ridge is a fire road too. check it out on google maps. try driving up that!  Laughing
AW

Zé wrote:
interesting.

i'm assuming rattlesnake gulch is the same as rattlesnake canyon?


I doubt it, but could be it....they going to make you work really hard to get there Very Happy
HikeUp

Thanks Zé-man.

Regarding the trail up to Etiwanda, check out this historic HPS map (pdf file). Nice bunch of older maps on the HPS site.
Zé

AW wrote:
Zé wrote:
interesting.

i'm assuming rattlesnake gulch is the same as rattlesnake canyon?


I doubt it, but could be it....they going to make you work really hard to get there Very Happy


maybe they meant devil's gulch?
AW

Zé wrote:
AW wrote:
Zé wrote:
interesting.

i'm assuming rattlesnake gulch is the same as rattlesnake canyon?


I doubt it, but could be it....they going to make you work really hard to get there Very Happy


maybe they meant devil's gulch?


too hard to decipher for me...from the sound of it, I assume they are talking about a south traveling drainage west of Devils Gulch...I wonder how they even found it.
RichardK

1N34

HikeUp wrote:
At this time of year can't you just drive up 1N34 from Lytle Creek Road?


I called the SBNF this morning.  1N34 is closed due to the overall fire danger.  There is no specific reopen date.
HikeUp

Re: 1N34

RichardK wrote:
HikeUp wrote:
At this time of year can't you just drive up 1N34 from Lytle Creek Road?


I called the SBNF this morning.  1N34 is closed due to the overall fire danger.  There is no specific reopen date.

You beat me to it. I was gonna call to confirm it was open (the hunters were able to get through so I assumed it was open last weekend). So now I have one indication it is open and one it is closed. Neither source is reliable.

Typical. Very Happy
Zé

Re: 1N34

HikeUp wrote:
Neither source is reliable.


<slams fist into table>

Mad

what, you don't believe me?!

that gunshot and hikers were real, I will tell you that.

I don't know what road # that is, I thought it was 1N03 or something

besides, NF lie all the time about roads being open/closed. or they just are incompetent. at least that's the case with the ANF, I have no experience with SBNF
HikeUp

LOL.

I trust Zé and RichardK. I don't know anything about how the hunters got up there (i.e. whether it was legally or illegally) and I see the Forest as patently unreliable (won't go so far as calling them liars. there is a chance their left hand doesn't know what their right hand is doing, blah, blah, etc., etc.).
edenooch

Zé wrote:
edenooch wrote:
From the looks of that pic. Your barely missed running over the bear crap on your departure!........maybe next time Rolling Eyes


someone else's steps! i don't step in shit!


So when we did Tyndalls first 6 miles in the dark. You managed to dodge every landmine?

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