Hiking Trails and Trips
Trips
Brave Attempt To Get To Sturtevant Falls, With Buddhists
Mount Wilson, California, United States
Hiking | 31 miles
Hiking | 31 miles
Made a wrong turn but still had nice hike. Forgot to turn off gps.
Bear Divide To Magic Mountain (Missile Base)
Indian Springs, California, United States
Hiking | 10.0 miles
Hiking | 10.0 miles
Nice easy ascent of 2400 feet over 5 miles, and back the same way. Went with total of 4 liters of water; used half on way up. Magic Mtn. was a nuclear Nike Missile base that operated between 1955 and 1968. Wikipedia says that this site was the control site and that the launch site was 6 km North, now a quarry. 360 degree view - valley, L.A., Santa Clarita and beyond....
One day land nav class. Greeted by former raccoon and then fearless deer who leapt over two fences right at entrance to park.
Don't use the tracks for your own trip. I went through thickets that would stop an invading army.
Nice easy number 2 hike.
7-9 PM. 360 degree view at the top. 1200 foot elevation gain in one hour, over 2 miles. Cardiological fun with 20 pound napsack. Level 4 trip. The 4+ people are hiking gods.
A treasure in the Sierra Madre. Phone battery died right when I got to most Northern point. The rest of the trip is an approximation -- **do not use for hiking**About 10 miles overall. The first half is uphill the whole way. I could barely think by the time I got to the top. I took the Mt. Zion trail back down, and then the Winter Creek trail, which was spectacular and...
2nd test of the dubious Everytrail / Droid2 combo. Fail. It stopped recording after it got confused when I was taking a photo. The hike itself was magnificent. Got started at 6:40 or so and didn't see a soul on the way up, except for a dude riding a horse. His dog walked with me for a while. Plenty of rabbits, a spider that was half a foot long, and on the...
Hike to test EveryTrail/GPS on Droid. We followed a route someone else had uploaded, but halfway through the gps cursor apparently stopped moving and we missed the big turn to the east, just kept heading north until we came to an impassable hillside, and then came back.
