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Michelle
Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
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Mar 30, 2013 - 06:29pm PT
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I love this place.
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Michelle
Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
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Mar 30, 2013 - 06:43pm PT
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have fun..? lol
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Mar 30, 2013 - 06:47pm PT
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It was about 90 in the Saline ... It's getting warm . Probably nice up higher though
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lars johansen
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Mar 30, 2013 - 06:47pm PT
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It's farther from the road than it looks. The canyon running E at the base has some really interesting marble in the left fork. I'll be out there Wednesday.
lars
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Mar 30, 2013 - 06:49pm PT
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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Mar 30, 2013 - 09:05pm PT
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Hey Dan, what is the Lippincot road like? I have heard that is scary. Someone else told us cars have rolled off of it. Others have said it isn't bad. Hunter Mountain Road, to Tea Kettle Junction, left to the Racetrack and over Lippincot into Saline Valley seems like it should be an interesting route.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Mar 30, 2013 - 09:13pm PT
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What kind of vehicle lol !
Any decent 4x4 could make it now . Some tight turns , and a slight washout near the bottom that pushes you toward an edge ...
But seriously , you'd have to be pretty careless to blow it ...
A great road , not too much room to turn around though .
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 30, 2013 - 09:49pm PT
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I was out there a few weeks ago. Great weather and good soak.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 30, 2013 - 09:54pm PT
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This is a picture of my truck taken by my friend after a glow stick fueled night at the upper springs.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Mar 30, 2013 - 10:46pm PT
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Beautiful photo ... It was a full moon the last few nights . Not as many stars.
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
Bishop, CA
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Jun 13, 2014 - 07:00pm PT
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We hiked up Little Hunter Canyon on the trail that leads to Bighorn Mine. We crossed into Craig Canyon near the pass on the Bighorn Mine Trail. We then descended the narrows of Craig. It is full value fun canyoneering with sections of limestone slot canyons and a good amount of cold water. A pretty fit party will have no trouble doing this loop in a day. something like 8 or 9 rappels and lots of mandatory cold swimming.
I did a solo first descent of an Inyo canyon dropping down into Saline Valley 2 years ago. I called it Black Snake Canyon. It's right in between keynot and mcelvoy canyons and had 15 rappels, and shockingly the biggest rappel was 280 ft. As the Inyo canyons are not known to have big rappels (they do not exceed 170-200 ft.)
Here's a shot of a group I took down on the second descent of this spectacular canyon, and this might explain why I named it "Black Snake Canyon"
heres the top of the 280 ft. rappel on the same second descent of the canyon:
I also did a few other first descents of the Inyo canyons, one of the canyons had very interesting white rock, and a rock feature that had a perfect white/black split in it:
In other news...
the charming bat sign has been updated:
and there was a 6 day old baby burro the last time I went to the saline valley hot springs just this past weekend June 6th-8th
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
Bishop, CA
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Jun 13, 2014 - 07:16pm PT
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OMG!!
I HAVE to get that SV Saline Valley sticker. Pray tell, where did you get it?
the second youngest baby in the pack
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jun 13, 2014 - 08:55pm PT
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We were waiting for that baby to be born a month earlier. People were following mom around thinking the day was imminent. Here is the two week old we met in the first week in May. Thanks for the update. Stoked!
PS. What's with the bathing suit?
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
Bishop, CA
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Jun 13, 2014 - 10:05pm PT
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We were waiting for that baby to be born a month earlier.
supposedly, his name is "Ghost".
PS. What's with the bathing suit?
haha...good point
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Jun 13, 2014 - 10:06pm PT
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anybody been out to the racetrack lately??
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Jun 14, 2014 - 02:05pm PT
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what were temps like ?
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
Bishop, CA
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Jun 14, 2014 - 02:17pm PT
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it showed 111 in my car on the drive in as the max
it reached about 106 at the springs that weekend, probably 103-104 being the more accurate high.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Jun 14, 2014 - 02:58pm PT
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ok nice , only 111*
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Nov 14, 2014 - 07:28am PT
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...a few photos from the Saline last weekend
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Psilocyborg
climber
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Nov 14, 2014 - 08:28am PT
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Any advise getting in there with a 2wd 4runner? I have extensive experience driving off road in the desert with 2wd vehicles.
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