Trailbuilders Survey Old Toilet At Crystal Lake

Today the San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders examined one of the old rock toilet facilities at the Crystal Lake Recreation Area located within the Angeles National Forest of the San Gabriel Mountains.

The question was whether the facility could be rebuilt so that the building could be used for something else such as for a secondary information center or for literature storage, an education center, or for pretty much anything else one might think of.

After considerable examination and thinking, conceivably the building would be gutted and refitted for other use after four days of effort, including repairing the wood shingle roofing and applying fire retardant, fire alarms, fire extinguishers, and pretty much everything else that is needed for safe occupation within the State of California's regulatory guidelines.

The surrounding grounds were also examined to see what it would take to landscape with native plants and to make access to the old building easy enough for very small children.

Here are photographs of that surveying effort.