boydrkb wrote:
PatrickA51 wrote:
profdant139 wrote:
I can't get too worked up about the San Gabriels, one way or the other -- that area used to be fairly nice as recently as the 1960s (I was there!), but in the last 30-plus years it has been destroyed by overuse and abuse. There are now literally 20 million folks who live within easy driving distance -- trash and graffiti are everywhere.
A few years ago, after a rainy winter, we took a hike to a waterfall off the Angeles Crest HIghway -- when we got to the falls, there was a large group of large party people with an enormous boom-box blasting "music" throughout the canyon. We watched them throw a few celebratory beer bottles onto the rocks at the base of the falls. We turned around and went home, following a trail of discarded diapers back to the parking lot. This is no exaggeration, I am sorry to say.
You can call it a national forest or a monument, but it is what it is.
Well put.....is it now called a Federally Protected Landfill? :h
Edward Abbey began foretelling this tale of woe four decades past. Few listened then, about the same number as are listening now. Speaking for myself, "We old folks have seen the best, it's all downhill from here."
I remember going to Mt. Baldy as a child, with my parents, also going to the San Gabriel mountains. We went to Mt. Baldy more often, living less than 10 miles away. Edward Abbey you are right I guess I am of the age to fall in to that category "We old folks have seen the best, it's all downhill from here."
