Burned Area Photos and Old Mt Wilson Trail 10/17/09

Ze Hiker · Post by **Ze Hiker** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:15 pm

http://socalhikes.com/2009/10/burned-ar ... son-trail/

Post by **HikeUp** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:55 am

Nice pictures. I think alot of what you saw burned on Mt. Wilson near the buildings and the base of the trees is from back burns they set for preventative measures?

Ze Hiker · Post by **Ze Hiker** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:10 am

yeah I guess that makes better sense. I guess they burned up the base of trees just enough to cover the height of chaparral that could move the fire?

edenooch · Post by **edenooch** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:26 am

Did u go straight up from mananita ridge?

AW~ · Post by **AW~** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:55 am

Im still worried about that pink spot

looks like continuing down the ridge from that point will be challenging..it burnt all the way south of pk5000 as well so maybe from the bottom looks to be the way...there just is no easy way to the peak!

Ze Hiker · Post by **Ze Hiker** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:03 pm

edenooch wrote:Did u go straight up from mananita ridge?

mananita? mamacita?

yeah, up the trail to the toll road, then up trail to parking lot. up around 10:30

where were you?

edenooch · Post by **edenooch** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:14 pm

got up to MANZANITA ridge about 8:55. 10 mins later 4 meetupers show up and say they are part of Ze's MT wilson lollipop so i followed them for an extra 5mi & 3000ft gain.......

Worked out wonderfully

Ze Hiker · Post by **Ze Hiker** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:08 pm