Tour of the Angeles Crest anyone?

If you guys would welcome another, I would be interested. I would be open to pretty much any time frame and schedule. Let me know , Thanks.

Chad,
I'd love to have you along but we gotta keep the group small too since most folks dont prefer large group hikes, myself included. So would you mind being on reserve in case somebody cant make it? Many times one or two people have something come up last minute.

Adan

No problem, keep me in mind if you get the space. Thanks

Thanks Chad, we'll definitely call on you if the opportunity arises.

I've been asking around and thanks to Hikin Jim, I have a ton more info about the proposed route. I think its safe to say that we can start way over at Three Points on the PCT. This will give us a good long day or day and a half from Cloudburst east to Little Jimmy Camp with plenty of water along the way. Burn damage should be minimal on the entire route.

Now here's where we have a decision to make, stay on the PCT and make this a straight forward hike out to Lytle taking the grand tour of Blue Ridge and Lytle Creek Drainage –or— Drop down into Vincent Gulch and go for an adventurous cross-country bushwack to Baldy or to East Fork San Gabriel River. Baldy would require alot of off-trail routefinding and a summit of 9500 Dawson Peak only to drop 1,000 feet and then climb back up to Baldy at 10,000ft. East Fork is still alot of cross-country, but little elevation gain in comparison to Baldy.

Either would probably make this a 3 or 4 day hike. Any preferences or suggestions? I have been wanting to see all of these options so I can go either way. Original idea was out to Baldy but I wasnt sure everyone was in the mood for a mini-epic or what.

Lots of interesting options. This guy really knows the place well and has been extremely helpful, thanks Hikin Jim!

Well all of those sound awesome, and I'm definitely down for any of those trips.

I've seen a lot of the san gabriel and I've seen a lot of baldy, but I haven't seen hardly any of the lytle area, so i suppose that would probably be my ideal trip since it's newest to me.

However, I do like hiking along water, so thats really my preference here, the trail with the most water along the way :) haha.

What am I saying, I really am up for any of these xD

Thanks James. After giving this some more thought, shuttling will be a challenge so I'm leaning towards coming out over Baldy but cutting out most of the bushwacking by staying on the PCT until we hit the backbone trail (confirming this route).

Day 1 (5pm)Park cars near Baldy, Shuttle to Three Points and camp
Day 2 Three Points to Little Jimmy 17.5 miles
Day 3 Little Jimmy to Blue Ridge 16.5 miles
Day 4 Blue Ridge to Manker Flats 13.5 miles

Comments?

Sounds good to me.

I just reviewed the route over some topo maps and it looks good :)

I absolutely cannot wait.

Well if no one else minds, I'll add my name to the "extra" list. If they're aren't enough people that drop out, it looks like there might even be a big enough group for two separate ones. I'll keep on eye on the thread and see what everyone else thinks.

Joseph, my notifications are not working well anymore so I didnt see this post from you. You're on the list. We were considering late March but after the latest dump of snow we're unsure BP and Baldy will be passable by then unless we carry spikes and axes. I want to go as soon as it's safe without that stuff.

So due to a horrible tax season, I have postponed my move to the bay area until June.

Therefor, I'm totally down (and psyched!) for this hike.. so I hope this happens still :)

Every day of rain I think "ugh, thats just more snow thats going to have to melt".

Now it's getting pretty hot though, so hopefully soon? :)

James,
Sorry your plans didnt work out. I'm glad however that you'll be joining for sure. I'll propose some dates and see what happens.

So are we still looking at memorial day weekend?

I think that would be a good time. I'm going to check and see if I'm clear for that weekend. I'd love to hear from the rest of the crew, how's memorial sound everyone? It'll be harder for me after May because I have big trips in July and August already. So May-June is best.

I already have a Memorial Day trip planned. But something in June would work, if you give me the weekend after Memorial Day with my wife :)

Nick, I didnt realize your trip was the same weekend. I'm looking at June and I'm not seeing anything, daughters' dance performances. Memorial may be my best hope at getting this trip done before my bigger trips this summer. :(

here's the folks i have so far. some are on this thread, others expressed interest verbally. there was mention of maybe splitting into two groups, so maybe first string goes memorial day and the other group in june? depending on availability maybe we split up differently than whats shown below. lets hear from the gang please.

first string:

Adan
Craig
James
Nick

bench:

Dylan
Michael
Chad
Joseph

I won't be able to do it, sorry man.
I have a 50K trail race in Bishop the previous weekend and have to leave town for that. I'd be getting too overextended with family/life if I'm gone two weekends in a row.

No worries Craig, I totally understand. Good luck on your race, I'll be watching the blog for a report.

So Nick and Craig are out for memorial so far, any takers out there?

I can do memorial no problem :) count me in!

It looks like I'm out too. It sounded like it was getting pushed back to june, and I'm going to be out of town after memeorial day for a few months so I made other plans. Next time.

So I've decided to go for this hike solo, since I know I want to do this before I leave for northern california.

Adan was generous enough to provide me all the info he had found, so I combined it with the info I had and now have a very clear plan as to how to complete every section of this hike. I'm going to make it a four day hike instead of 3 days, giving me a little extra time to enjoy it. Adan also provided detailed information on where to obtain water throughout the hike.

I'll be starting the hike on Tuesday morning, which should put me at Manker flats friday afternoon/night (my birthday!).

Wish me good fortune and good luck guys! I'll make sure to take plenty of pictures.

Any last minute advice/ideas/tips?