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I decided to up the ante a little bit today and did the San Gabriel Mountains Icehouse Canyon to the Three Tee's Trail today. The route takes you through beautiful Icehouse Canyon up to Saddle Junction and over to Timber Peak, Telegraph Peak and then Thunder Peak (hence the Three Tee's moniker) and back. It's a 16 mile hike with 5800 ft. of total elevation gain out and back. The weather was great: Cool to warm and breezy, a little clearer would have been nice but all and all it was beautiful day. The hike took a little over 7.5 hours. This has got to be one of the most beautiful hikes in Southern California. There is a ton of water running in the river, massive trees, sketchy ultra narrow switchbacks, leg scratching Manzinita filled meadows and best of all spectacular views at the top of each peak, especially Telegraph Peak.

It was nice getting to meet you out there in my "backyard"

Hi Chris. Nice to see you too. Beautiful backyard indeed!

Another great trek Scott. 16 miles in a day is pretty spectacular.

OLLIE wrote:Another great trek Scott. 16 miles in a day is pretty spectacular.

Ollie. The scenery was so awesome and the weather so good it went by fast. Those are Blackberry pics again.

Nothing to do with your hike, but a body was found in Ice House Canyon this afternoon

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_18968293

not much information

Crismateski wrote:Nothing to do with your hike, but a body was found in Ice House Canyon this afternoon

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_18968293

not much information

Actually I was hiking past those cabins this morning. I drove up last night about 2:00am and spent the night in truck. Go up at 5:00 am and hit the trail at 5:30am. So I would guess I was walking by the cabins from about 5:45 till 6:00am in the dark with my Petzel light. That kinda freaks me out.

I'm post a Trip Report in a minute.