Mount Langley Summit

Plan itinerary.

• Day 1.  Drive to Lone Pine for walk-in permit (Eastern Sierra Interagency Center, Highway 395 & Highway 136, Lone Pine, CA 93545).  Drive into trail head (44 mi along Horseshoe Meadow Rd)  from Lone Pine Creek (3 mi).  Begin hike from Cottonwood Lakes trailhead (10040ft, +0mi) to High Lake (11500ft, +6mi).
• Day 2. High Lake (11500ft, 0mi) to New Army Pass (12300ft, +1mi), to Mount Langley (14026, +4mi), and back to camp  (~2500+ft, 10.0mi).  Break camp and return to trail head High Lake (11500ft, 0mi) to Cottonwood Lakes trailhead (10040ft, +6mi).  Drive back to LA.

Topo trail for summit day.

090816 USGS marker for Mount Langely

Hiking Reference Links

NOAA weather checks

Echo Mountain Peak weather

Mount Wilson Peak weather

Baldy Peak (San Antonio) weather

Cucamonga Peak weather

San Gorgonio Peak weather

San Jacinto Peak weather

Mount Whitney weather

White Mountain Peak weather, Barcroft station

Mount Langely weather

Ranger Stations

Angeles Crest National Forest contacts

San Bernadino National Forest contacts

Inyo National Forest contacts

Sierra National Forest contacts

Signs apocalypse is upon us

Disgruntled climatologist enraged over budget cuts use exhaust methane gas to melt glaciers!

Time to rethink what personal measures to counter climate change.

Unintentionally Comedic Family Photos

If you can’t have good laughs with you family, have it at the expense of other people’s family.

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Katie Melua at Amoeba

Some fan mentioned that Katie was huge in the UK–I have a hard time believe that to be true.  Her genre is just not a MEGASTAR factory.  On the merits of her talent and performance, I think she’s a musician that I would follow if she ever toured in the US.  I’ll see you at the Stinking Rose or Lawrys Katie!

LA is not cool enough for Muji

Why can’t I go green and support local economies at the same time? It’s an intrinsic failure of Los Angeles to not be hip enough to have a Muji.  Revelations from a bag lost.

Score: baggu = 1, muji = 0.

Inaugural Post

Should there be fanfare and confetti in the streets?  Desktop publishing on the original Macintosh was something else all together.  WordPress makes the web childs play–much like that HP commercial with the little girl with the goldfish.  And so I will play the part of small fish in big pond in cyberspace.