The Sheep Hole Mountains are a small range not far from Twentynine Palms in the Mojave desert.
My hiking and trip reports. Many more, and a better design, coming soon.
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About a year before the devastating Eaton Fire, I hiked this front range peak.
No, not that Grand Canyon. The one around here.
Mt Gleason is a 6,530' peak across the way from Pacifico Mountain.
Mt. Baldy - highest point in L.A. County at 10,064' - is currently closed due to the Bridge Fire which, as you'll see in a later post, I saw happen from the summit of Baldy.
The Vital Link is a fun, short-but-steep trail in the Verdugo Mountains. It's 3.8 miles & 1700' of gain round trip so it's fairly steep.
I did this 11,611' peak in the southern Sierras with a micro influencer I'd met online.
"What?" You're no doubt asking, because you know the two titular destinations are well over an hour apart.
While I later biked to the highest point in the City of Los Angeles, this time I just hiked it.
This was a fairly easy DPS peak near Lucerne Valley and Victorville.
Rising high above Burbank and Glendale are the perpetually snow-capped Verdugo Mountains...
I'd hiked Josephine Peak in the Angeles National Forest a few times, but this was the first time I'd biked it. It was very windy at times.
This post should be filled with pics from Death Valley, except I went there during a heatwave so I wasn't going to do much hiking.
Clingman's Dome ( )
Clingman's Dome is just a walk along a concrete walkway, but you get several highpoints.
Getting the Delaware Highpoint was perhaps my most dangerous high point ever.
In 2003 I climbed the Third Flatiron outside Boulder, Colorado. It was my first multipitch trad route.
I recently was in a situation where I needed to use my PLB and the uncertainty around Bullitt (aka "RCD 2023") caused a great deal of