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Post date: Jun 30, 2015 6:39:47 AM
This 3 days, 2 nights backpack helps prepare for the Sierra backpacking trip in August. It is a major training hike, Backpackers will start early on Friday night (7/24) from the Vincent Gap trailhead and hike through the San Gabriel river canyon to the Bridge To Nowhere on Sunday.
This trip will count as a 3 days backpack for the Backpacking merit badge, and as a 10 mile hike for the Hiking merit badge.
Departure: Friday, Jul. 24, 2015, 4:00 PM, Mr. A's house
Return: Sunday, Jul. 26, 2015
Trip Information: San Gabriel Mountains Bridge To Nowhere
Backpackers will meet Thursday, July 23, at Mr. A's house for food and gear distribution.
*** We need Shuttle Drivers. Since the hiking crews are hiking one direction only (not going back to the place they started), we need to drop them off on Friday night. We will need about 5-6 cars to shuttle them. The round trip to drop them off takes about 3 hours. It's not far from Mountain High, Wrightwood. It's an easy drive, but it is at night and has some switchbacks toward the end. For the return on Sunday, shuttle drivers will start from Heritage park around 3 PM to bring everyone back from the "Bridge to Nowhere" parking lot
*** Every parked car must display an Adventure Pass. Ranger, Sports Chalet, Big 5 (Alton and Culver) or REI (Tustin Market Place) sell them. There's also a Cafe about a mile and a half before the entrance that sells them.**
*** In lieu of recent wildfires in the Southern California area, parents need to prepare their scouts on the procedures for evacuating from campgrounds in the night or the highways in the event of wildfires. "Burning in chaparral and grass and fanned by high winds, the blaze jumped into the southbound lanes of the busy freeway Friday afternoon. Panicked travelers abandoned their vehicles and ran into the hills." "About 10 p.m. Friday, officials woke up campers, who grabbed as many belongings as they could and filed onto buses and into sheriff’s vehicles that transported them to a local high school," --- North fire is 45% contained as unusual summer storm moves through area, Javier Panzar , Sarah Parvini and Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2015,
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