This is barely a trip report, but whatever. I went to the Station Ridge trail today (the trail from the fire station just above La Canada down to Paul Little). It was pretty overgrown, so I brought the loppers, and cleared back the brush. The whole thing is now passable. Once the trail leaves the ridge and switchbacks to the Arroyo it's really poison-oaky. Still is. It's a nice area. I walked up to the dam, and the waterfall is gushing
No birthday baloons, but I packed out several empty gatorade bottles and 16 (!) butane cans.
I was there two weeks ago for my workout hike during the week and wore shorts, didn't get to the bottom due to all the poison oak. Was planning to bring loppers next week and cut it down. Will probably bring them anyway and see if there is any additional brush up work.
Awesome! I did the bulk of the brush cutting, although it could always be better. Didn't work on the poison oak. Not sure what the best strategy would be for that. Don't have a reaction yet...
dima wrote: ↑Awesome! I did the bulk of the brush cutting, although it could always be better. Didn't work on the poison oak. Not sure what the best strategy would be for that. Don't have a reaction yet...
I went down this afternoon, there was a lot of PO to chop. It is all now passable with minimal caution required. I also did some other trimming. May go one more time for good measure to see if I missed any spots. Lots of water at the bottom. Some teens were down there screaming and yelling didn't see them but the noise was impressive.
