Angeles Crest Highway Re-opens. (RAH!)

 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crest19-2009may19,0,6585700.story

 
Those sportbike idiots need to stop at the Chilao visitor center and
buy a copy of "Trails of the Angeles" ISBN 0-89997-232-2 so they can
plan a real forest adventure.

 
Yeah. Like sportbikers are going to take advise from *you*.

(Snort)

 
That's actually a pretty good book, though there's way
more chaparral than forest IIRC.

 On May 20, 7:40 pm, Rkleinsch1216...@aol.com wrote:


The pine trees begin around 5000 feet. Mt. Wilson is about 6000 feet.

I really wish that I had read Trails of the Angeles when it was first
published in the 1970's, instead of hanging around with motorcyclists
who just wanted to ride the Angeles Crest Highway every weekend.

Sportbike riders only see the pavement and don't appreciate the hidden
wonders of the Angeles National Forest.

It's amazing how many resorts and cabins were built up in the forest
around 1900 and were washed away in the flood of 1938.

I've hiked from Altadena up to White City and seen the funicular
railway and the tracks of the railway car that was pushed by a mule
and hiked up to Mt. Wilson, and up Eaton Canyon and hiked up the west
fork of the San Gabriel river from Chantry Flats almost all the way to
Shortcut saddle.

Nowadays I'd be lucky to walk two miles, but I used to get out and
hike 12~15 miles in those mountains at maybe 3~4 miles an hour before
my joints started
failing.