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Los Angeles Walking Tour: 05-15-2010

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 11:41 pm
by HikeUp
Walking tour of downtown L.A. on a fine Saturday. Union Station to L.A. Live and back with all sorts of stuff in between. About 8 or so miles.

Trail is in great shape! Beer available.

Pics.

Cool mural (at least 5 stories tall, can't remember specifics)...
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Calculus...
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Re: Los Angeles Walking Tour: 05-15-2010

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 8:33 am
by Hikin_Jim
HikeUp wrote:Trail is in great shape! Beer available.
My kind of trail.

What the heck is #12? Fortune cookie fortune drying rack?

HJ

Re: Los Angeles Walking Tour: 05-15-2010

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 3:12 pm
by Yamaya
Jim-san,

Those are called Omikuji, a kind of fortune cookie thingy without a cookie. :D After you draw one, hang it on the rack (sometimes tree branches, fences, etc.).

Re: Los Angeles Walking Tour: 05-15-2010

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 3:33 pm
by HikeUp
Thanks for the explanation Yamaya. I didn't know what they were either. The rack is in front of the Koyasan Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo.

Re: Los Angeles Walking Tour: 05-15-2010

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 5:03 pm
by Hikin_Jim
Yamaya wrote:Jim-san,

Those are called Omikuji, a kind of fortune cookie thingy without a cookie. :D After you draw one, hang it on the rack (sometimes tree branches, fences, etc.).
Hai, hai, wakari mas.

Domo, Yamaya-san.

HJ

Re: Los Angeles Walking Tour: 05-15-2010

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 7:19 pm
by hvydrt
Great pictures! Did you need crampons? :D

Re: Los Angeles Walking Tour: 05-15-2010

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 10:09 pm
by HikeUp
LOL. Ice axe to fend off the panhandlers.

Lots of things to climb if it wasn't frowned upon.