What a great hike! Today a number of people from Facebook gathered at the
Crystal Lake Visitor Center parking lot and hiked up Windy Gap, enjoying
the fairly cool temperatures, the slight breeze, and the vistas of the
mountains. At the same time a number of trail issues were surveyed with
notes taken so that the San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders would know what
needs to be repaired on their next work day.
Since a great many photographs were taken which shows Windy Gap pretty well
they have been collected here even though this was not a volunteer work day.
Fred and Rori off in the distance along Windy Gap
Up at Windy Gap Saddle!
Looking south from Windy Gap Saddle
Down at the Visitor Center with Adam
Looking up at the mountain trough the 2002 Curve Fire burn area
A little bit of snow at the Visitor Center
Fred and Elisa along Windy Gap
Lam along Windy Gap
Rori, Elisa, Fred, and Lam at the Cafe
We meet other hikers along South Mount Hawkins Road
Ha! For some reason Rori and Fred pause for photographs
Looking at the pins, alive and dead
Down at the Visitor Center looking at a light weight tent
A dead tree is down along the trail (this has been cleared now)
One of the signs at Windy Gap Saddle
Walking up the trail
A look at dead pines in among the brush
Climbing over a large tree trunk obstruction (this has been cleared now)
Looking at the condition of the trail where recent work was done
A nice look at the peak from below
Lam pauses under a very heavy tree laying over the trail
Looping at the denuded mountain
Here's a moist area where many tree trunks blocked the trail and were cleared
Another obstruction on the trail, we climb under (this has been cleared now)
Up at Windy Gap Saddle
The sign at the major junction on South Mount Hawkins Road
We take a look at the Dodge Power Wagon World War 2 weapons carrier
Hiking up the trail
A look at the mountain
Rori and Fred again way off in the distance
Lam, Elisa, and Fred
This intrusion on the trail is strange, I don't remember it
Another look at the hillside on the way up
We walk through one of the shaded areas
We can see the lake from way up on Windy Gap
A look at the condition of one of the first trail signs we pass
The trail is the exposed areas are in good shape!
Mount Wilson antenna farm way off in the distance
At the Windy Gap Saddle
At the Visitor Center
Mountain Kitth!
A great dea of Yerba Santa growing along Windy Gap
Trailbuilder Lou's rock retaining wall
The foot bridge at the start (which has been fixed already)
A hazard tree leaning over the trail (this has been fixed already)
Another look at a sign that's on the lower section of the trail
Another look at an obstruction (this has been fixed already)
A rootball has dug a hole in the trail (still needs to be fixed)
Standing on a dead tree trunk (this has been removed already)
Intrusion in to the trail (this has been fixed already)
Obstruction on the trail (this has been fixed already)
Climbing over the obstruction takes an effort
Mile marker 1
The sign at the South Mount Hawkins Road trail junction
Lam and Elisa off in the distance
Intruction again, this one I don't know how it got there, where it came from
A look off in the general direction of Mount Wilson
A look at South Mount Hawkins Road in the distance
Lam at Windy Gap Saddle
Elisa at Windy Gap Saddle
Trail signs at Windy Gap Saddle
Many bike riders at the Visitor Center Cafe
We examine a light weight tent
We examine a light weight tent
We look at some flowers at Coldbrook Campground
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