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The rangers told me about the sites on the “bluff” of pear lake so that’s where I pitched. No mosquitoes or ticks to report. No bears but a lot of marmots around. I do wish I had taken the hump and watch tower back instead of watch tower both ways. Definitely recommend pear lake over emerald if you can make it. The night sky was breathtaking. I’ve never seen the milkyway with my own eyes like that. Rangers were at pear lake when I arrived around 3 but left around 4pm. I think I’m the only person whose permits got checked.

We know he got 2 legal hats. One in sac and one in the town. He beat both those cases. So that means there’s 3 more in the streets. Jojo certified compared to chai or fredo who got no confirmed hats.

2 letter/FE/FuckEverybody. Ain’t new. Lotta people think it is but it’s been a round. My older homie from stone city was original FE. The way he explained it him a his homies got tired of hustling under older cats and decided to make they own shit. It ended up branching out to San Leandro/ Hayward cause that’s where they was getting money at. Lotta people will speak on FE like it ain’t from Oakland cause cold game from Ashland/San Leandro but it really started in the deep. But Ashland really just hella blocks of low income/ section 8. It’s significantly better than Oakland but it’s a has hoods that’s been around (159th,164th,167th). FE don’t really have a lot of youngsters. It mostly grown ass men. As far as Oakland. They in the 100s, the Alvin Grooms apts in the 80s and in the 30s. I’m sure there more but I don’t know every hood cause like I said they keep it low key. FE was fucking with stubby but not as much as they did. (Spideyy fucked that up). But from what I hear FE really the ones going at it with the cases.

North Oakland different than the east and west because it never split. It’s the smallest “side”
Of Oakland. Only about 30 blocks. It runs from about 40th to 66th street. See unlike the rest of Oakland which tends to be divided the north used to only beef with south Berkeley for the most part. That war is a long one. With like 2 decades of bodies on both sides. Around 2014 the north (which had some movement in the rap game at the time) ended up clicking up with cases. This was kinda big cause it wasn’t just one part of the north but the whole section. They had a new click called “freeze em” (the north always been called North Pole /polar bears/bearfaced). This kinda put some of the older heads from the north in a weird position cause the north never got caught in the politics like that. Now they damn near a decade into it. And whether the OGs like it or not sides have been chosen.

These hoods used to be cool for a long time. Both always been about getting money and keeping low key. When the town split these hoods became divided. I don’t know/won’t speak on the causes but basically these hoods share dead homies. Once the split happens it got crazy. I don’t know when the initial fall out happened but by 2019-2020 it was beef. School street and 39th clicked with 2’s/3’s and High St/ Fairfax clicked with 4 letters. It’s got spunky on both side for a minute. Where it was not safe to be on the blocks for a few years (still lowkey a risk today). In the midst of this there was some cases from 35th. That block is gone. Both these hoods get slept on and both will say the other ain’t active. But both of them got history and been around and used to fuck with each other. Just another example of how modern politics changed Oakland.

Bookers (USA) liquor is an infamous spot in the heart of the bossland (Birch, Olive, Sunny Side) section of East Oakland. It’s has always been a money spot since way back. Booker Boys was its own click back in the day. The original owners were tapped in with the hood. For at least the last decade it’s been stronghold spot for nut case/4 letters. The spot was infamous enough to get in the “tell me when to go” video in 06/07. Here where it gets crazy. 2021. There was a homicide inside of the store.. basically one of the case gang members had strap tucked in the store. Someone came in and stole the strap. So dude came in the store tripping and ended up getting killed. This ended up sparking a war with the owners of the store.. because basically cases felt like they had something to do with the gun getting stolen as if it was a back door situation. This led to multiple incidents, including a house, being set on fire that killed a worker of the store as well as their kid and also a separate shooting that happened in West Oakland at a liquor store owned by the same family that owned bookers. The store was closed for like three years but the trap didn’t die. The store recently reopened under new ownership.

These are two of the oldest hoods in Oakland that are still active today. They are two very large public housing projects that are right next to each other. Each taking up multiple blocks. Back in the 70s and 80s when Phelix Mitchell ran the east the two were together. He used these projects as one of his main traps given it proximity to the near by BART station (subway). The 1990s seems to be when the split happened. Theirs different rumors about what caused the fallout but I’ve heard some crazy stories about what happened after. See these projects are gated off now. You can’t just ride or walk through them but back in the day they were wide open. So you got two projects across the street from each other just going at it. Both with a lot of dope money and members. From my understanding the war has picked up and died down many times since the 90s. To this day the animosity is there. But the 69 vil went through heavy gentrification. I just stated seeing people back over there in the last few years. Their clicked up with case. 65 vil had some motion like 10 years ago when project poppa (rapper) was blowing up. They had some Detroit connection with band gang/shred gang (they were clinging shred for a minute) but for the most part have always reminded independent/not clicked up.

Before it was case gang VS Stubby ENT it was Acorn (gas team) and Ghost Town (OTB). The beef goes way back. Mac blast was dissing ghost town before ENT started. he also talked about taking over different blocks in the east to trap and you can hear him bang Nut Case at the end of “so much pain.”(even though he was gas team general). I say this to say that before the war really cracked off sides were already being chosen. You can really say it picked up when Ed and Nardi got killed by Air it out. ENT really stands for ED Nardi Taliban. Once that happen the beef spread fast. Gas team and case gang (boss land) become one and ghost town and green side/76th became ENT. Within 10 years the whole town changed. A lot of stand alone hoods picked a side and the city became divided. The politics started spreading out of the town. Soon Sacramento, Stockton, and San Francisco started picking sides in it too. A lot of the politics in nor cal can be traced back to this old beef between two hoods in west Oakland that’s started almost 30/40 years ago.

Dean potter was an extreme sports enthusiast and adventurer. He was well known in the climbing community and is credited with pioneering the “Easy Rider” route on El Capitan. Dean was the center of controversy regarding his climbing of Delicate Arch in Arches NP which resulted in stricter enforcement in that park (he found a loop hole in the wording of the rules that allowed him to avoid any legal repercussions). He was introduced to slack lining by the legendary Charles Victor Tucker aka Chongo. Dean was known to crossed slack lines with no safety gear. He is credited with inventing “freebaseing” (not with cocaine) the combination of free soloing and BASE jumping. Unfortunately Dean and a man named Graham Hunt were both killed during a wing suit flight in Yosemite on May 16th, 2015. They (illegally) launched from Taft point and needed to clear a notch in the ridge line. Both were unable to clear the notch and likely died on impact as neither deployed their parachute. Dean was controversial in life and death. Some see him as an extreme adventurer that pushed the envelope of what could be done. Others see him as reckless and disrespectful to nature. Either way his life is/was amazing. He made a movie called “when dogs fly” about his adventures with his cattle dog Whisper if anyone wants to check that out.

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Was looking for OMG point but ended up here.

Not my video but I couldn’t believe it. Half a dozen people ascending in a flurry is crazy. Also I doubt you’re gonna see much at the top in those conditions.

A lesser known hike in the Santa Cruz area. Just finding the park is hard actually getting to the trail without getting lost is another difficulty but it was awesome nonetheless the less. A hidden gem for sure