Chantry Flats/Santa Anita Canyon Road to Reopen in December 2005

According to information in a fundraising letter dated October 2005 from the
Sierra Madre Search & Rescue Team, the landslide-blocked Chantry Flats road
into Santa Anita Canyon (behind the towns of Sierra Madre & Arcadia in
California) is currently scheduled to reopen sometime in December 2005.
Finally! That means that excellent variety of trails from Chantry Flats
will be more easily accessible once again. So lace up those hiking boots
for your next trek up Mount Wilson or get prepared for whatever your
recreation of choice. It's been far too long!

Helpmeister wrote:
According to information in a fundraising letter dated October 2005 from the
Sierra Madre Search & Rescue Team, the landslide-blocked Chantry Flats road
into Santa Anita Canyon (behind the towns of Sierra Madre & Arcadia in
California) is currently scheduled to reopen sometime in December 2005.
Finally! That means that excellent variety of trails from Chantry Flats
will be more easily accessible once again. So lace up those hiking boots
for your next trek up Mount Wilson or get prepared for whatever your
recreation of choice. It's been far too long!

I remember Santa Anita Canyon! That's where you hike down to the river
from the parking lot at Chantry Flats. Then I made a counterclockwise
climbing loop north, bagging an unremarkable peak in the process and
approached Chantry Flats from the west.

The San Gabriels are a good place to see montane birds, like
chickadees. I remember seeing a beautiful oriole flashing in the
sunlight as it flew down the creek on one of the trails west of Chantry
Flats.

There are a lot of concrete dams in the creeks to stop the winter rains
from flushing the
creeks out. This probably actually helps to maintain a lusher
environment for insects by retaining the debris that would normally be
flushed down into the Santa Anita River.

If the creeks were allowed to run freely, we'd see a repeat of the 1938
floods that washed so many private cabins out of the San Gabriels.

What a bummer, this re-opening of the road. Now all the sh*t flinger's
(ie. people of questionable national origin) with screaming
snot-faucets (ie. children) will return in full force, befouling the
pristine waters with their bodily excrement and netting every last
living trout out of every remaining pool.

It was nice while it lasted, the accessibility issue. Kiss it all
goodbye (here's a hankerchief in case you cry).

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What a bummer, this re-opening of the road. Now all the sh*t flinger's
(ie. people of questionable national origin)

You mean people for whom you can't tell their national origin?

-s-

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What a bummer, this re-opening of the road. Now all the sh*t flinger's
(ie. people of questionable national origin) with screaming
snot-faucets (ie. children) will return in full force, befouling the
pristine waters with their bodily excrement and netting every last
living trout out of every remaining pool.

It was nice while it lasted, the accessibility issue. Kiss it all
goodbye (here's a hankerchief in case you cry).

Yeah, what they did to Hwy 39 was a shame. Damned disposable diaper
flingers! But we're not supposed to mention their ethnicity.

That's just the way they live in Mexico. In their own filth. So we have
to pay a clean up fee every time we park on national forest land, even
though we pack out everything we take in.

They tried it on Little Tujunga Canyon and Bouquet Canyon and they got
run out of there without the rangers having to close the roads down at
night.

I was riding through Little Tujunga Canyon on the way to Hidden Springs
and the diaper flingers were trying to picnic---right on the pavement.
I had to slow down and swerve to avoid running over one moron's legs.
He was sitting on the pavement! I guess they thought the whole canyon
was a park or something.

The rangers just put up no parking signs in the areas where they wanted
to park and **** in the creek.