New Member Saying Hello

[Cobber99]

SOOOO glad I found this forum! Hi folks - my name is Eric and I live in Palm Springs. I moved here a year ago and love the local trails. I am an avid geocacher, hiker, photographer and GPS addict and am trying to catalog my hikes and maps on my website.

I would like to do Skyline this October once it cools down. Hi all!

[Cy Kaicener]

Welcome to our message board Eric. I will be taking the first tram up to Long Valley this Saturday the 11th with Lee who is an avid photographer and GPS tracker to the upper part of the Skyline Trail. You are welcome to join us. I am the short older balding guy with shorts and Nike sneakers. Here is another gps website you might want to see. http://www.gpsmountaineering.com

[Cobber99]

Thanks Cy! I will be in San Diego this weekend but would love to hike sometime in the future! That gpx track of skyline is wonderful! I made one by hand off a listing of waypoints I found in Excel format online and it matched it pretty well.

[magikwalt]

Hey Cobber,

I usually have a GPS of one sort or another with me on most of my hikes. Sometimes its both a Garmin heart rate monitor and a 60CSx if I've never done the trail before.

On the cache side there used to be on up above the picnic tables on the Lykken Trail at Mesquite. Be very careful though as it has some very serious exposure danger close!!

Walt

[KathyW]

Hi Cobber - welcome!

Kathy

[guest]

Hi Cobber,
All the best on your Skyline training. Please read some of the other posts regarding this trail, and the need to not publish too much info on it, as it is receiving too many unprepared & under-trained hikers, and is in jeopardy of being restricted.

The agencies don't recognize it as a trail, and that's the best way to keep it, if we all want to continue to enjoy it. It's a cross-country route to be hiked by experienced hikers, with people that have done it.

Thxs,

ss

[Cobber99]

Thanks for the replies

Yeah Walt, I have found all the caches in the Santa Rosa's and lower Jacinto area (Lykken) - what fun that was! I even planted one of my own atop Murray Hill

...and regarding being cautious about publishing the details of the trail - I absolutely understand that and while I can't wait to have a hardcore track file, I think I will not publish it.

[guest]

Hi Cobber,

Thanks for understanding, it's a tough thing, to want to help & all w/ info, I (we) appreciate those that can grasp the situation this trail is in.

Will look for you on Skyline this fall!

ss

[lee]

Hmmm... 'New Member Saying Hello' thread

...Thread hijacking in progress

Hello, This is Lee, I am 6 weeks new here and I ran into Cy and Perry at the tram last Saturday I took Cy's offer to hike Skyline instead of Perry's tram-to-SJ-peak and here are a bunch from the 856 pictures I took:
http://leeland.shutterfly.com/
see album: 2007.08.11 A hike down Skyline with Cy (1)
It was a real pleasure meeting you both and I am very happy to have Cy letting me document this hike.
I plan to select and post the rest of this series of pictures in the next few days. If certain pictures need to be removed from the album, please let me know.
Cy, it turned out to be 856 instead of 300. I don't know yet how to get this camera to tell me how many pictures I have taken at any given time Will post here again once I have the rest posted.

[Cy Kaicener]

Lee - Thats amazing - 856 pictures in 1.2 miles. Whats going to happen when you try to photograph Yosemite or the Grand Canyon. Thanks for the great pictures. Everyone wants to know what Lee looks like, but he did not let me take his picture.