Hello all

[Jedi5150]

Thanks for the added info on the norther part of the mountains Patrick. As it turns out, we've postponed the Mt. San Jacinto trip. For the winter backpacking trip we've decided instead to go to Mammoth. Dogs are welcome in Mammoth (almost every hotel allows them), and they are allowed in both Inyo National Forest and the Ansel Adams Wilderness.

We got reservations for the Mammoth Mountain Inn (The wife and kids are not into the whole winter backpacking idea ) They will stay at the Inn while I go backpacking. This has the added benefit that if it gets too darn cold or conditions take a massive turn for the worse, I will be within walking distance of the hotel. Hard to beat that for a bail-out plan.

[lilbitmo]

Thanks for the added info on the norther part of the mountains Patrick. As it turns out, we've postponed the Mt. San Jacinto trip. For the winter backpacking trip we've decided instead to go to Mammoth. Dogs are welcome in Mammoth (almost every hotel allows them), and they are allowed in both Inyo National Forest and the Ansel Adams Wilderness.

We got reservations for the Mammoth Mountain Inn (The wife and kids are not into the whole winter backpacking idea ) They will stay at the Inn while I go backpacking. This has the added benefit that if it gets too darn cold or conditions take a massive turn for the worse, I will be within walking distance of the hotel. Hard to beat that for a bail-out plan.

Have fun up there, some of us from this board went up Bloody Couloir to the summit of Bloody Mountain on a group climb last June - 9 of us (it's the mountain just south of the road that leads into Mammoth that stands real tall in the view as you look south heading into town). That's a fun area. If you ever get over to White Mountain for a climb, as you walk past the "Labratory" that is located on the way to the summit, it has an address you are going to love 5150 Bancroft Ave, White Mountain, CA

I'm just hoping my wife never calls in a 5150 on me for some of the hike's/climb's/bushwhacking's/rappell's that I've done over the last couple of years, but if she does, I'll go willingly

[Jedi5150]

I'm just hoping my wife never calls in a 5150 on me for some of the hike's/climb's/bushwhacking's/rappell's that I've done over the last couple of years, but if she does, I'll go willingly

I hear you on that.

[HH8]

I'm just hoping my wife never calls in a 5150 on me for some of the hike's/climb's/bushwhacking's/rappell's that I've done over the last couple of years, but if she does, I'll go willingly

OK, I had to go look it up ROFLOL!
Section 5150 is a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code (specifically, the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act or "LPS") which allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to him or her self, and/or others and/or gravely disabled.

[Lermo]

lilbitmo wrote:

I'm just hoping my wife never calls in a 5150 on me for some of the hike's/climb's/bushwhacking's/rappell's that I've done over the last couple of years, but if she does, I'll go willingly

You gave me a great idea Patrick! Hmmm.... It might be worth being commited (5150) for a while if I could get out on the JMT for a month next summer.