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Hello there everyone, just found this forum. I've hiked a few of the lower peaks in the San Gabriels, planning on more. My biggest planned excursion is Iron Mountain, from everything I've read it sounds massively fun.

Different topic, does anyone know if the Station Fire area is reopen? I've seen some peaks in the area that need to be climbed.

See you on the mountain.
Baden Powell Conditions
Too late for original poster, but in case anyone's interested, drove Hwy 2 from the 210 to Vincent Gap Friday and climbed all the switchbacks to Baden-Powell...road was open and in great shape, and trail had just one small patch of snow, about midway between MM3 and the top, easily bypassed...
Jones peak to wilson toll from sierra madre
I have seen the beginning of this journey called "Bastard Ridge". Kind of a coincidence since I kept blurbbing out "son of a bitch" the whole way. This was the first time for me, and was not sure what I would come across.  
As usual, I made some basic mistakes. Tennis shoes with completely worn out soles, left cell phone at home. For me there was no way I would take this route back down, so I was quickly dedicated to 2,700 ft climb 1/2 of which was rugged ridge climbing ...
Water at Buckhorn?
Anyone know if the water spigot at Buckhorn is flowing.... and safe to drink?
Kellys Camp dry
We hiked to Kellys Camp today to check out the spring. It is all but dry. Water was coming out of the pipe one drop at a time. It would take forever to fill a bottle.

The forest service put up a new sign at the trailhead with pictures of the Icehouse Canyon Resort.

what's this from?
i came across this in the southeastern los padres on the alder creek trail, specifically in an area called stone corral.

elevation 3647'

check google earth use dec deg:

34.568809, -118.913614

for approx location.

i do not recall ever seeing something like this before.

? ?

thanks,
bsmith

Evening/night hikes
Work's busting my hump about being in the office Mon - Fri (imagine that...), and the gf hasn't given me much free time on weekends.

Does anyone ever do late hikes that start in the early evening (post-rush hour)? I was thinking of hitting a trail head around 7:00pm Mon - Fri.

I'm intimately familiar with a few trails that I'd feel comfortable navigating in the evening with my trusty headlamp, but I've never done it before. Is there anything considerably different about hiking from dusk ...
Mt. Baldy via Big Horn Ridge?
Hiking friend Henry completed this bad boy a few weeks ago. Again he posted his photos on FB, but said I could share them

His comments:

"tough but great one! Its the only hike that i have done so far that left sore on my legs and arm. We took a slightly different path than yours because we found a less brush spot to start with, it was the second bump on the ridge (after 5700) once we topped out the ascent of the ridge took us about 5 hours. Once on the ridge we spent great deal of tim ...
Fish Fork over 2.125 days or Manker to Heaton 5/15-5/16/13
*usual disclaimer: Fish Fork is a serious technical canyoneering run. Plenty of ways to end up a pile of bones in remote wilderness. For example. usually this time period would be a no-go most likely, but with our low water year, it was good to go.

Started off short of 11am at Manker on my 3rd different SG heavy duty wilderness route . I was thinking the ski lifts would be open but no such luck. Slowly moving up through the heat, but at least a cold wind would blow now and then. Reached WBald ...
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