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Great video production, especially your trips with the cooking! San G. Is great hike from Vivian, SB trail and dry lake trail. The SB mountains never get old hikeing in the snow in late may, warm days in August and before the winter storms in November. A couple weeks ago I swam in dry lake on my way up and a swim in dollar lake on the way back. Only in the last two years the two lakes have had water, all the prior hikes via south fork trail the lakes were dry in July-August. In December-February check out the southern desert peaks like Villager, Rabbit, Dawn, Whale and Martinez peaks, they are great challenging day hikes without mountaineering.
The fall is so beautiful! I think this is a strenuous hike compared to Lower Yosemite Fall & Vernal Fall because its trail has so many creeks to cross & so slippery. But it’s really worth the hike. Thanks for sharing.❤
I climbed this peak twice ! Once as a teen age camper and the second time as a 20 year old camp leader. Thanks for the memories. Your photography and use of the drone is excellent.
Yes as matter of fact you can back pack all the peaks so far. There is plenty of camping spot along the way or even my favorite at the peaks!!Stay going out there!!!
People under estimate the San Gabriel mtns and especially Baldy. Aside from navigational errors the white stuff is generally ice, one mistake and you're not stopping until you hit something large enough to stop you or you get to the bottom
Yes it is a wide of enough trail with not really any side trails you could accidentally turn on. But I would always try to download a map or pick one up at your local REI. It’s good practice and good piece of mind!!
It's a firefighting self-replenishing cistern built im the late 1940's early 1950's as a watershed protection project paid for with bond money from Los Angeles County flood control district, I'm pretty sure it also paid for the various fire stations like Angels Station, Clear Creek Mill Creek, Monte Cristo ect. This is when the road was built from Josephine Gap to Josephine Saddle
Lived 10 minutes from Mt Baldy my entire life. Never fails that every year, someone goes up hiking when they had ZERO business to do so (unprepared, bad weather, going solo) and they fail to come home. It’s not a difficult hike, but the second you lose respect for the mountain…game over.
Is believe that it’s because it is so close to such a heavily populated area. It gets a lot of traffic and the odds of someone not coming home goes way up! Great mountain!
Ive always wanted to go to that waterfall, ive hiked that trail in blistering hot days, rainy days snowing days, and at night, i got rained out once bc my tent flooded @ 3am, i loved the video but i hope it doesnt turn that place into a dumpster like so many of my favorite spots in angeles NF by all the LA people that watch this, i know all of the secret spots in these mts, except this one 😅. Btw whats the name of the last song when youre jogging to the end?
No human experimentation... Watershed and biosphere research. Always wanted to go here and will probably check it out soon Thanks for taking me along! Search for a video by Charlie Gabaldon. It is a tour that is done periodically
Ah Mt. Baldy, brings back memories to my 20's. I day hiked it with friends twice. It was tough, but honestly wasn't that bad of the day hike. Devil's Backbone was definitely scary. If you're ever back in Southern California, look into the 6 peaks of Southern California. Looks like you already did 2 of them, Mt. Baldy and Mt. San Antonio. Cucamonga Peak, San Gregornio, Mt. Wilson, and Mt. San Jacinto are the other 4! I summited Mt. Wilson, Cucamonga Peak, and Mt. San Jacinto, but never got a chance to finish San Gregornio (I did a overnight backpacking trip with like 12 friends but we never made it to the top lol) and didn't do Mt. San Antonio. I've heard Mt San Jacinto is the hardest, it of the 4 I did of the 6, it was God awfully hard!
It's interesting to me how much the pool at the base of the waterfall has filled up with sediment in the 40 years since I've been up there. I used to love doing cannon balls off of that big bolder. The pool used to be about 6foot deep there and deeper at the base of the falls. BTW that spring coming out of the ground was pretty much the same 40 years ago.
Another great hike with tremendous views. Hope you brought a beer to celebrate another successful summit and used the bottle opener on the tree at the summit (my ritual) if you didn't notice it, look at the bottom of the video at 11:35 and you'll see it. Great job !
went out Eureka Dunes some years ago with a group of Cal-tech researchers who did studies with geophones and Ground penetrating radar while we made the dunes "boom". To me it really sounds like a bunch of propeller driven aircraft in the distance. We got the sand to vibrate so much the sand was coming up about 6-12 "
been going there for years never seen anyone else back there after getting off the main trail. I know this sounds selfish but to bad it ended up on youtube, I hope it doesn't get trashed like Bonita falls all trash and spray paint, By the way your last approach in the canyon to the falls you went the hard way. stick to the left of the stream and scramble up the small rock face its a lot easier. some things should be kept secret. If you go up there please respect it pack out your trash and leave the spray paint in LA.
Ahhhhh sorry I know it is definitely a catch 22 I really enjoy showing people these beautiful place in this area. 36 years around the sun and I only discovered how beautiful California is until recently! I had no idea any of this existed here!
Hi there, I just found your channel and subscribed. I also have a RU-vid channel and I do go on hikes as well and cruises. We are currently practicing to hike the trans Catalina Island in March. And this is how I found you. I love hiking and I love food so I figured why not! Looking forward to watching all your videos and enjoying all the hikes that you do, and hopefully someday I can hike those trails as well.
Love that hike! I tried it about 3 years ago. Started very late. After 1:00 pm. I “died” just approaching the backbone. The wind was hard and cold. I felt like those in the Death Zone on Everest so I turned around. I had climbed previously about 3 times so why risk it. Are you using a Bio Lite stove? If so, why?
Wow that’s awesome that stretch to the Devils backbone is leg buster!!! I am using a biolite. I enjoy it because of the real flame. It is a little bit more eco friendly which I’m all about!
Thanks ,Finally got to see this place because of this video. We live in San Dimas and my son who is studying geology at Mt Sac. Went there on a class trip and tripped and cut his head open there when he was trying to get up. Could not believe they did not have some kind of hard hat for there.
