[pct-l] Angeles Crest Highway Reopens

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

On Dec 1, 2009, at 1:57 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> It's strictly in the realm of fantasy (sort of like recovering  
> Hetch Hetchy
> Valley), but it is fun to imagine what the San Gabriels were like  
> before the
> highway was completed in the '50s. Descriptions of the great hiking  
> era
> (1920s and '30s), with frequent forays into the front range and  
> occasional
> treks deep into the wilderness (now easily reached by car),  
> sometimes make
> me wish the San Gabriels were still as "rigidly inaccessible" as  
> they were
> when John Muir visited.

You can get a feel for what it might have been like by hiking in the  
Los Padres National Forest.