The bottom of the backside pretty much is Stockton flats at about 6,000 feet. You could actually make it to Stockton flats from a wide ranging area, from the Notch all the way to the summit of Mt Baldy. There is a road from Stockton Flats to the ski area, originally built in the 1890’s. There are definitely some straightforward shots from the ski area to the road for a simple hike too back to the ski area. However, the topography is pretty complex with two earthquake faults nearby (San Jacinto and San Andreas) so there are hidden cliff bands, chutes and a ridge that would actually take you away from the ski area. None of this is a big deal if you have the right equipment and stamina to get back, just don’t blast off the backside, get your self lost and blame me. Do your own research and yea there are some easy and sick hike to shots too. So there you go. Just thought you may like to see what is on the other side because over 99% of the people come up the front and there relatively little info on the Lytle Creek side. One year they even had a shuttle up from the bottom to the ski area. Anyway, it was a nice summer hike and hard to believe, no people even though we were near to almost 20 million souls on the 8 mile round trip hike

Here is an article from someone who skied from the very summit, looks like skiing in Tibet or something, no So Cal

http://www.sierradescents.com/skiing/harwood/2006/stockton-flats.php

For info on the ski area
www.shopbaldy.com

I always hated dog people, then we got our own dog now and I love that dog to death. So I am a dog person I guess I became what I hate

To get to the bottom of the mountain you drive on like 5 miles of pretty bad but not quite 4×4 dirt road, definitely not for most cars though due to clearance and sharp rocks

In the right you have Mt Baldy, in the middle Mt Harwood (which off the most “extreme” riding in So Cal other than Snow Creek on Jacinto) and on the left, the “backside” of Baldy

Flowers in the mountains while the lowlands bake

One of the many chutes to ride

Looking towards the I-15 and Big Bear

Looking down Coldwater Canyon, the road we hiked up and on the left, a ridge you could ride

Thunder Mountain, the main riding area at Mt Baldy Ski area, in 2008 they had riding here into April

Looking down the front from the notch to the parking lot including some of the sick inbounds terrain when open all the way to the bottom

Looking towards Mt Baldy summit

“I bought all the corn dogs” On of the healthiest things you can do (hiking) followed by one of the worst meals, corn dogs and beer from AM PM

Vert
1 Shaun White
2 Bucky Lasek
3 Andy Mac
4 Bob Burnquist
5 Adam Taylor
6 Renton Millar
7 Josh Stafford
8 PLG
9 Rodrigo Menezes
10 Buster Halterman

Standings after Cleveland
Street
1 P-Rod 185
2 Chaz Ortiz 160
3 Ryan Sheckler 153
4 Greg Lutzka 140
5 Austen Seahom 118

Vert
1 Bucky Lasek 185
2 Andy Mac 145
3 Bob Burnquist 145
4 PLG 138
5 Adam Taylor 130

Zoo York Am Getting Paid, Montral Canada
1. Antoine Asselin ($5,000)

2. Ryan Decenzo ($2,000)
3. Chazz Ortiz ($1,000)
4. Andrew Langi
5. Dustin Blauvelt
6. Ron Deily
7. Spencer Hamilton
8. Steven Reeves
9. Magnus Hanson
10. Micky Papa
11. J-S Lapierre
12. Will Marshall
13. Lee Yankou
14. Anthony Shetler
15. Mitch Barette
16. Walker Ryan
17. Vincent Alvarez
18. Hugo Balek
19. TJ Rogers
20. Riley Boland
amgettingpaid.com

Saw this big spider walking on the trail

Tarantula

The Cheap Leis got everyone in the mood with Hawaiian Music. Adrian Demain, on the left here is a good skater, rode for Powell back in the day. On the right you have O who was a Transworld photog back in the 80’s and still takes fine photos for the likes of the The Skateboard Mag. O was also in some really good bands like Olivelawn and Fluf

Second up were one of San Diego’s funnest bands - The Creepy Creeps

Surf Music with a Death/Dance twist and dancing girls, what more could you want

The Creeps come complete with their dance enforcers to make sure the crowd dances, her is da rat

Gettin Creepy on the coffin keyboards.

The Nightmarchers where the headline band and the current band of guitarist John Reis. John has been in all sorts of San Diego bands; Rocket From the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Sultans and more. John is an amazing guitar player and the Nightmarchers were fast furious and tight

The Nightmarchers

Went for a snorkel in Laguna Beach. My shoulder is sprained so I thought the exercise would be good, it was. Lot’s of stingrays

Beanplant at a fun little session

So, needless to say the finals were insane. Everyone got a run then a 35 minute jam ensued. It allowed the skaters to really go for the hard tricks since they were not limited by a timed run. Things were judged mixing day one and day two. For day one the skaters could only hit 8 walls, the action was supposedly packed, I was not there. Lets check out the top 7 on the last day. Keep in mind I am only talking about day 2 when I talk about their placing. I could see Shaun, Danny Meyer and other placing higher with only eight walls. Anyway, Bob Burnquist is an alien he did such wacky shit but fell a lot I guess cuz his skating was beyond 7th place. Andy Mac got robbed I believe, as usual. I think he makes skating look too easy. He did like every version of the 5 you could do, including a varial 5, he did 7’s he used the transfers and got 6th, whatever. Sandro did a 900, a 540 to tail, hit hella speed he would placed higher had he used the ramp more, did I say he did a 900? Danny Mayer got 4th and it was probably the highest placing in his life. It was probably Danny’s kickflip 5 and heelflip disaster transfer that got him into fourth. Now those two tricks were sick but I don’t know about beating a 900, Andy consistency and Bob’s insanity and creativity. On to the top 3. I guessed the top three would be Bucky/PLG/Shaun. Rune Glifberg claimed PLG/Bucky/Shaun, the judges went with PLG/Shaun/Bucky. Lets start with Bucky then. Bucky did his first 7 and it was a boned out Indy 7, maybe the best 7 ever done. Bucky used all the transfer lines, threw in crazy shit like a nollie heel to tail and other stuff. In my mind he should have won but what the heck do I care. Shaun White got second. Shaun skated inane, including a frontside rodeo transfer but Bucky utilized the obstacles more. In the X Games Shaun woulda won. PLG won and I guess I can’t argue with that, he ripped, did some tranfers, 720’s, flips, spins – the whole package

Smack! Sandro Dias does a massive Madonna from low to high in practice

Bob rules, this is like a varial to lien transfer in practice

The golden boy Shaun White was there, air to fakie transfer

“Rob Loriface skated the best he has ever skated” – Rune Glifberg, frontside ollie to nose grind, low to high

Frontside 5 – anytime. Bob

Rune Glifberg 5-0 off the BIG extension

Jakey Brown backside ollie in practice

Bucky Lasek was one of the few to successfully use these things on the deck of the ramp – back lip

PLG does a switch heel 360 and makes it

Andy Mac – varial 5

To get to this position PLG negotiated 5 different transitions in 2 walls – alley oop nollie heel

Alex Perelson is one to watch for – massive 540 from low to high

Bucky Lasek

Lincolda Ueda goes big

Bob ollies to nose, low to high, going away from the camera

Bucky Lasek catches the front cab heel transfer

Frontside rodeo transfer

You are looking at Bucky’s first 7 and a boned out indy none the less

Right after that Sandro did his 900

PLG, Shaun and Bucky on the podium. Dave Duncan reminded PLG that his sponsors will match his prize money, PLG’s eyes lit up and he goes “That’s right!”

VERT
1 Pierre-Luc Gagnon $75,000, a New Ford Flex SUV and Nixon watch worth $10,000
2 Shaun White $35,000
3 Bucky Lasek $20,000
4 Danny Mayer $10,000
5 Sandro Dias $6,000
6 Andy MacDonald $5,000
7 Bob Burnquist $4,000
8 Lincoln Ueda $3,000
9 Rodrigo Menenez $2,000
10 Rob Buster Halterman $1,000
11 Rune Glifberg $1000
12 Rob Lorifice $1000
13 Neal Hendrix $1000
14 Alex Perelson $1000
15 Jake Brown $1000
16 Josh Stafford $1000
17 Darren Navarrette $1000

There were 5 “zones” set up for the finals. Each zone consisted of a famous feature and some little sub features. So there was like the Hollywood High stair set (zone 5), the Carlsbad Gap (Zone 4), The Barcelona Bridge Gap thing (zone 3) and two other zones. The park was built by California Skateparks in a few days and basically designed by the likes of Rob Dyrdek, Erik Ellington, Brandon Biebel and others. The finals consisted of a 10 minute jam on each of the zones from on to five. The Hollywood stair set was the gnarliest and last. Can not imagine skating at the level of those guy for the amount of time they did

To explain how Paul Rodriguez was determined the winner we basically transcribe a conversation I had with one of the judges. I said who do you think won? He asked me who I thought one. I said that Chris Cole was the most consistent overall and deserved to win. He agreed with but then said this contest was not judged in the traditional manner. He explained that for 4 of the 5 zones they dropped the low score and averaged the 3 other scores, that counted for 50% of the score. The Hollywood stair set counted for 50% of the score. The he asked me who I thought won, I said Nyjah, then P-rod. He said I was close. Nyjah did the sickest big spin flip to front board on the Hollywood set as the last trick of the day so that was fresh in my mind. However P-Rod tore apart some of the other obstacles and only sucked on one (that score was thrown out) So, that is how he won. I’d say the results were pretty accurate. Skateboarding after all is subject to opinion. I do know that is was insane, hopefully they bring it back.

The crowd was huge, free alcohol was given out to the VIP’s and athletes. The way it should be, although there were at least two fights; Josh Beagle sucker punched Corey Duffel and I heard that Bob Burnquist was involved in a fight but that is un-confirmed. Lot’s of stars and such. They also held am contests on the course as well so it got well used. Thanks Maloof’s and all the sponsors!

Quotes

“It shows that skateboarding can have it’s own contest, with out all the other sports” – Ryan Sheckler

“I want a tape of that because Chris Cole actually missed” – Paul Rodriguez Sr.

“The best in the world doing video game tricks” – Rob Dyrdek

“We were the lowest in high school” – Dave Duncan talking about being shunned when he was in high school to how skaters are like TV stars and have events like this

“I hope Paul wins because our family needs the money” – Paul Rodriguez Sr.

The Goodyear Blimp and the actual view on the big screen from the blimp. The blimp was delayed going home to Carson because the contest ran a little late. Hey, even the Goodyear Blimp waited for skateboarding

Being in Orange County, CA there was certainly a lot of other talent there

There were at least three Christians in the finals, here is Jereme Rogers. Hey, where were the Brazilians?

Rene Rene doing some correspondence work for Fuel TV “This shirt is so dirty I wore it for a week, even slept in it and did not shower either” – Rene Rene

A packed crowd. When the Hollywood 16 started a bunch of people were blocking the fans view and the fans almost started a riot

Fucking HEAVY crew, l-r, Greg Lutzka, Andrew Reynolds, Darrell Stanton, Dennis Busenitz, Chris Cole, Paul Rodriguez, Nyjah Huston, Terry Kennedy, Ryan Sheckler and Jereme Rogers. All these guys had to skate through some sort of preliminary to get here, no free pass through to the finals

The gloves came off really quickly - Chris Cole – kickflip to 5-0 in zone one

Dennis Busenitz killed it in the prelims but in that case they were skating in multiple zones so Dennis was doing crazy shit like ollieing the gaps from one zone to another. The finals, being held in one zone at a time, were kind of limiting to the type of skating Dennis does. He got last but could have doe better with more room to move

Jereme Rogers, kick flip to back lip

The Boss front flips to tail, Zone one was kinda like the everyday shit you might skate

Ryan Sheckler was not his usual self on the first few obstacle but came together towards the end, what the hell, $15,000 will by a lot of $6 orange county drinks at the Orange County after parties

LA freight train with Terry Kennedy followed up by P-Rod

Greg Lutzka, I got switch 270 to lip slip in the notes

Andrew Reynolds front flip towards us, Darrell Stanton manuals the other way and the rest of the crew is some sort of stage of skating the fuck out of zone two, the manual/tech section

Darrell Stanton 360 flips to 5-0

Ryan Sheckler half cabs on to crooks to back 180 out – that’s pretty tech

On to zone 3 and P-rod switch flips to back lip and you think he pays off the judges?

Andrew Reynolds front flips to lip slide this bridge Barcelona thing, I have never been to Barcelona

At a “normal” contest Chris Cole probably would have won because he the most consistent overall but the judging was a little different – read the story

Greg Lutzka – 270 on to front board

Greg Lutzka front flip as a warm up to his sick ass front flip to blunt

Nyjah Huston Big Spin flip to front lip

On to Zone 4, the Carlsbad Gap. Chris Cole puts the hammer down with a switch tre as Sheckler get’s outta the way

Paul Rodriguez switch front flips the c-bad gap replica, where is Kris Markovich?
An ass shot of Darrell Stanton and his backside tre

On to Zone 5, the Hollywood 16. This zone alone counted as 50% of the overall score. Do you think LA heads had an advantage?

Nyjah Huston – backside nose blunt

P-Rod freakin switch crooks

Chris Cole – back tail to fakie

Jereme Rogers follows the switch trend with a switch feeble

Shecks is gonna probably get more chicks this year than you get in your life

Terry Kennedy – I wanna say switch nollie to board

Nyjah Huston kickflips to back smith

Jereme Rogers – switch blunt to fakie

Savor the moment, the contestants are up in the upper left of the corner while the fans are stoked to have witnessed what they just saw

Chris Pastras with Nicki. These people have the life, they were all “oh where in Hollywood do you live” “Oh I live at (I won’t say where)” “Oh, lets exchange numbers and go out” - bastard, ha, ha. They were all super nice so no excuses for me other than jealousy

Paul Rodriguez, Sr. is a famous comedian and ended up being the Co MC of the finals, it was pretty funny and he was super cool so I asked a few questions
SR- “Hey that is sick that you showed up to the contest tonight”
PR – “I had to show up to support my kid, he is a good kid”
SR – “Are you proud of him”
PR – “Oh yea, in the beginning of his skate career I would not go to his contests and the mother would always say that I never support my son. At the time I did want not to distract from his skating by showing up. Now he his more famous than me and I need to come hang on his coattails (laughter)”

more OC talent

Greg Lutzka won the best trick in two zones and got his awards handed to him by Lil, John. Someone in the crowd was yelling the stupid “heeeyyyy, yeaaaa” shit Lil John is famous for Lil John was like “whatever” and walked away. I suspect after years of hearing that it would get annoying

P-Rod – stoked

Right here P-rod is literally thanking Jesus while Sheckler is plotting what chicks to take to the after party. L-r, Sheckler, Terry Kennedy, Jereme Rogers, Darrell Stanton, Chris Cole, P-Rod, Nyjah, one of the Maloof Bros and Rob Dyrdek. Hopefully see you at the next Maloof Event

STREET
1 Paul Rodriguez $100,000 and Nixon watch worth $10,000
2 Nyjah Huston $40,000
3 Chris Cole $25,000
4 Ryan Sheckler $15,000
5 Darrell Stanton $6,250
6 Jereme Rogers $5,000
7 Terry Kennedy $4,000
8 Andrew Reynolds $3,000
9 Greg Lutzka $2,500
10 Dennis Busenitz $2,000
11 Adam Dyet $1,500
12 Tommy Sandoval $1,250
13 Billy Marks $1,000
14 Kurtis Colamonico $1,000
15 Sean Malto $1,000
16 Bryan Herman $750
17 Eric Koston $750
18 Mike Carroll $750
19 Jake Duncombe $500
20 Sierra Fellers $500

ZUMIEZ BEST TRICK
Zone 1 Greg Lutzka Frontside-Flip Back Lipslide $2,000
Zone 2 Jake Duncombe Bluntslide to Back Nose-blunt $2,000
Zone 3 Greg Lutzka Frontside 270 Kickflip Nose-blunt $2,000
Zone 4 Leo Romero Frontside Nose-blunt Upledge $2,000
Zone 5 Nyjah Houston Big Spin Flip to Frontside Boardslide $5,000

WOMEN’S STREET
1 Lacey Baker $25,000 and a Nixon watch worth $10,000
2 Rachel Reinhard $8,000
3 Vanessa Torres $4,000
4 Elissa Steamer $2,000
5 Leticia Bufoni $1,500
6 Amy Caron $250
7 Lorena Lima $250
8 Lauren Perkins $250
9 Evelien Bouilliart $250
10 Marissa Del Santo $250

Game Of Skate
Chris Cole $15,000

Josh Beagle sucker punching Corey Duffell, stolen from web, not my pic but worth a look

look for all the stuff on the whole contest on the skate website
www.skateboard-revolution.com
or if the bosses are too lazy to post in on the skate website, check the blog
crosland.snowboard-revolution.com

1 Pierre-Luc Gagnon $75,000, a New Ford Flex SUV and Nixon watch worth $10,000
2 Shaun White $35,000
3 Bucky Lasek $20,000
4 Danny Mayer $10,000
5 Sandro Dias $6,000
6 Andy MacDonald $5,000
7 Bob Burnquist $4,000
8 Lincoln Ueda $3,000
9 Rodrigo Menenez $2,000
10 Rob Buster Halterman $1,000

Braydon Szafranski swimming down a lane in the game od skate, he did not win but had a good time as did pretty much everyone

Steve Berra enjoyed a refreshing bottle of Vitamin water and the Vitamin Water girl enjoyed giving it to Berra

Billy Marks does a back 180 on a Chris Cole board. The Ace of Spades is the only card Billy Marks needs

Chris Cole is pretty much un-beatable in the Game Of Skate, so many makes

Chico Brenes

“Eric Koston has a career as a comdian when he is done with skating” – Mark Waters. Here is Eric explaining that one of his trick was indeed a make due to the “style and not technical prowess of the trick” The trick in question was a kick flip with the back foot

Alex Mizurov, Eric Koston and two hot girls getting the loving attention they deserve from their boyfriends in the crowd. Notice everyone is smiling too, having fun, they way it should be

Eric Koston can still skate

Koston, with style

Billy Marks with a switch varial heel

Billy Marks again with a nollie double heel

Here is the $15,000 trick or at least the trick that won the game of skate for Chris Cole – nollie backside 360 heel flip – jeez that is hard to type let alone do

The awards ceremony later that night

Chris Cole looking for someone or possibly looking for a Wells Fargo atm to deposit his check

Game Of Skate
Chris Cole $15,000

STREET
1 Paul Rodriguez $100,000 and Nixon watch worth $10,000
2 Nyjah Huston $40,000
3 Chris Cole $25,000
4 Ryan Sheckler $15,000
5 Darrell Stanton $6,250
6 Jereme Rogers $5,000
7 Terry Kennedy $4,000
8 Andrew Reynolds $3,000
9 Greg Lutzka $2,500
10 Dennis Busenitz $2,000
11 Adam Dyet $1,500
12 Tommy Sandoval $1,250
13 Billy Marks $1,000
14 Kurtis Colamonico $1,000
15 Sean Malto $1,000
16 Bryan Herman $750
17 Eric Koston $750
18 Mike Carroll $750
19 Jake Duncombe $500
20 Sierra Fellers $500

ZUMIEZ BEST TRICK
Zone 1 Greg Lutzka Frontside-Flip Back Lipslide $2,000
Zone 2 Jake Duncombe Bluntslide to Back Nose-blunt $2,000
Zone 3 Greg Lutzka Frontside 270 Kickflip Nose-blunt $2,000
Zone 4 Leo Romero Frontside Nose-blunt Upledge $2,000
Zone 5 Nyjah Houston Big Spin Flip to Frontside Boardslide $5,000

VERT
1 Pierre-Luc Gagnon $75,000, a New Ford Flex SUV and Nixon watch worth $10,000
2 Shaun White $35,000
3 Bucky Lasek $20,000
4 Danny Mayer $10,000
5 Sandro Dias $6,000
6 Andy MacDonald $5,000
7 Bob Burnquist $4,000
8 Lincoln Ueda $3,000
9 Rodrigo Menenez $2,000
10 Rob Buster Halterman $1,000
11 Rune Glifberg $250
12 Rob Lorifice $250
13 Neal Hendrix $250
14 Alex Perelson $250
15 Jake Brown $250
16 Josh Stafford $250
17 Darren Navarrette $250
18 Jean Postec $250
19 Max Dufour $250
20 Adam Taylor $250

WOMEN’S STREET
1 Lacey Baker $25,000 and a Nixon watch worth $10,000
2 Rachel Reinhard $8,000
3 Vanessa Torres $4,000
4 Elissa Steamer $2,000
5 Leticia Bufoni $1,500
6 Amy Caron $250
7 Lorena Lima $250
8 Lauren Perkins $250
9 Evelien Bouilliart $250
10 Marissa Del Santo $250

Game Of Skate

Maloof owns the Sacramento Kings Basketball team and Palms hotel in Vegas. Appearantly he wants to be involved in action sports so he threw the inaugural Maloof Money Cup which started tonight, July 11 at the Orange County Fair. The course was sick, designed by Rob Dyrdek and contained replicas of some of the worlds best skate objects; Carlsbad Gap, Barcelona Gap, Hollywood 13 and so on. The course was cement of the finest nature. Imagine the world’s greatest skaters on the worlds greatest obstacles made out of the smoothest cement. Ok, you get the idea. 12 skaters are pre qualified through to the semi finals. Surely you can guess names like Sheckler, Koston, Reynolds and so forth get a pass. Tonight though 24 skaters were narrowed down to 12 and they meet the pq’d 12 to compete for the 100,000 dollar first prize. Just seeing these guys skate hang out together was pretty amazing. Some of the Maloof friends were there too, like the prince of Saudi Arabia. For the first night of new comp, things looked good, let’s hope some future contests learn from this event.

To whittle it down took 3 heats of 8 competing in 2 10 minute jams. One on the left and one on the right with the Hollywood 13 being left out for the finals so people don’t break emselves off, although Peter Ramondetta did break himself off.

Here are the un-official qualifying results
1 Bryan Herman
2 Jake Duncombe
3 Tommy Sandoval
4 Nyjah Huston
5 Dennis Busenitz
6 Sierra Fellers
7 Kurtis Colamonico
8 Chris Mendes
9 Darrell Stanton
10 Mike Carroll
11 Peter Ramondetta
12 Sean Malto
13 Adam Dyet - Alternate

Terry Kennedy and Eric Koston are stoked to see each other. Koston was pq’d for the semis. Terry Kennedy did not make it past tonight but had a helluva lot of fun

back smith in practice

Marc Johnson, yes Marc Johnson

P-Rod practicing for the semi finals

Jereme Rogers does a switch back smith

Jake Duncombe was on fire, so much energy. Tricks like this kickflip to nose helped him get the 2nd qualifying position

Kurtis Colamonico Kickflips to back lip and into the 7th qualifying position

Jake Duncombe 270’s on to a back lip

Alex Mizuroz switch heel of the Carlsbad gap

Here you have the first place qualifier Bryan Herman with a kickflip to nose

Mike Carroll back flips into the semi finals

Darrell Stanton made the semis. The semis may be sicker than the finals, actually

270 back lip into the 4th place qualifying position for Nyjah Huston. Will we see someone take out Sheckler

Tre flip for Mr. Huston

Adam Dyet nollie back heel to lip, he is in the alternate spot, it seems like he should have gotten top 5 at least

Marc Johnson - 3

Bryan Herman after his great performance

Koston

Terry Kennedy – front krooks

Dennis Busenitz had some fast creative lines as always and he got the 5th spot-tailslide to fakie

Brandon Biebel sees a lot of Sacramento Kings games

Tommy Sandoval could win this whole thing, for sure. Half cab to smith

Nick Dompierre – back 3

Sierra Fellers and a nollie flip

There were quite a few broken boards

Sean Malto

On the way up a country road – cows branded by aliens?

While spots like Yosemite have crowded campsites, we just pulled off the road and had a site to ourselves, next to a stream, meadow and swimming hole no less

Here is the swimming hole which was nice and clear with trout before the dog stirred up the mud on the bottom

The nearby meadow, a 5 minute walk from our site with no people. Actually you could camp right on this meadow if you chose to do so

Aw – flowers for hippies

Bill Clinton spoke in front of this tree in 2000 creating Sequoia National Monument. George Bush Jr. immediately tried to repeal but failed, like George Bush Jr. has failed at pretty much anything in the past 8 years. Sorry about the photo of me but someone had to be in the photos so you can see how big the trees were

These trees are massive and up to 2500 years old, they have to be seen to be believed

Dogs first camping trip with the turned food and water bowl, of course she ate every piece of poop, bone and stick she came across. She did not know what to make of all the animals either

Kern River Valley from Dome Rock with fires in the background

The Needles, Lonnie Kauk would love that stuff. There is a fire lookout tower on top that has been struck by lightning 41 times in the past 20 years

Still some snow at 9115 feet

Looking east towards Olancha Peak, which if you are familiar with the drive to Mammoth, Olancha peak is outside Olancha on the 395, where the Crystal Geyser water company is

Maggie Peak and the Middle Fork of the Tule River and it’s rough terrain

The peaks of way southern Sequoia National Park, or Mineral King

Jordan Peak Fire Lookout. Someone sits in there all day and night and watches for fires. She was nice, let us up and showed us around

Actually, that is Frazier Mt and Mt Pinos way off in the distance

A short hike took us to one of prettiest spots ever, with no people

A very large tree

Another large tree. In like 1992 George Bush Sr. put this area aside from logging – Freeman creek Grove

The sickest picnic/camp spot you could hope to find, surrounded by giant trees

A fire pit in a tree

If you were so inclined the inside of this tree would be a great spot to spend a night and eat mushrooms and get all Hunter S. Thompson/Carlos Castaneda

Small ski area

Hi tech

Two double chairs and a pony tow

The perfect place to shred if don’t have $86 dollars for Mammoth