GLS Holiday Party
Again in 2015, we met for our holiday party at Grace and Mary’s house in L.A. Though SK and Barb leave Los Angeles soon for the frozen north, Barb ran the silent auction for us one more time. We may…
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Outings Reports
Griffith Park Graffiti Removal
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…
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Big Bear Weekend 2015
By Nancy Beverly I was telling Jen that hiking can be a Zen exercise for me. I have a goal (in this case, Sugarloaf Peak — AGAIN)… and then I do what I can to get there… bearing in mind…
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Ventura to Ojai by Bike
Story and photos by Kyla Hjerstedt Ready, set, pedal! If you ask me, there’s nothing like a good bike ride. And perhaps the only thing better than cycling with friends, is cycling, with friends, free of vehicles of the four…
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GLS Goes to Mount Williamson Instead
By Jeff Johnson The summer of 2015 was not good for hiking in the local mountains. It was hot, then hotter, then there was fire, and smoke, then storms, or at least the threat of storms, and then more storms….
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Tammie’s Provisional Hike to the M*A*S*H Site at Malibu Creek State Park
By Tammie Barta, photos by Nancy Beverly The weeks leading up to my provisional hike were filled with record highs, unheard of intermittent humidity (at least for So. Cal), and what felt like unending sun filled skies. I found myself…
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On a Hot Day in August…
By Jennifer Dooley, photos Jeff Johnson Five of us braved the 90-degree heat on August 16th to tackle the summit of Mt. San Gabriel. The original plan was the ever-popular Dawson’s Saddle to Mt. Baden-Powell hike; however, a brush fire…
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Dominguez Gap Wetlands
By Jeff Johnson, story and photos On July 18, a large group of GLS hikers took a walk through neighborhoods of north-western Long Beach to visit the Dominguez Gap Wetlands next to the Los Angeles River. This area used to…
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Twin Peaks
By Jeff Johnson, story and photos Twin Peaks is the prominent mountain in the heart of the San Gabriels surrounded by Mt. Waterman on the north and, on the west, south and east sides, by various tributaries of the West…
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GLS in New Mexico
By Laura Rainey, story and photos In late June, a number of us headed out by caravan to our GLS destination at Takoja Retreat in northern New Mexico. For some, traveling through the summer heat of the desert in this long…
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