By Nancy Beverly
I’ve been hiking at Griffith Park since the late 1990s and just this year graffiti a ppeared, much to my disappointment and anger. I phoned Griffith Park and other city entities to ask if it could be taken care of, but the lack of manpower and time seemed to get in the way of an “official” solution. Consequently, I hatched a plan to have GLS take care of the tagging and actually got approval from The Powers That Be. To pull off this scheme, I took a day off from work and went over to the Paint Dept. on the other side of Griffith Park from Interstate 5 to pick up a 40 lb. bucket (5 gallons) of “Antler Brown” paint along with brushes, rollers, handles and assorted other supplies. Fortunately nearly a dozen GLSers showed up on November 21 to carry out the plan — Marie A. (who helped with logistics and brought cupcakes), Grace
(who provided her truck and drove up the summer route with supplies), Jeff C. (who carried one of the VERY heavy buckets of paint
up to Cardiac Hill — what a workout!), along with the hardy painters Amanda, Diane, Dora, the two Jans, Kiwi, and Tim. We tackled the metal wall on the winter route and the stone bridge, 
picnic tables and the iron bridge on the summer route, along with various rocks, trees and signage. There was still more graffiti to be covered even with all of that work, but it felt good to give back to Griffith Park after all the benefits we’ve reaped from hiking there for so many years.
