The Night Hiker…

06 Monday Aug 2012

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Angeles National Forrest, backpack, backpacking, barrel, barreling, camp, campground, camping, camping trips, campsite, girlie, girly, girly camping, hike, hiker, hiking, night, night hiker, river, rivers, rock, rocks, spiders

A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I decided to be very adventurous and hike at night! We were very skeptical and the idea of it was a little crazy but we frequented this area many times and thought to live a little! We arrived in the Angeles National Forrest (we LOVE camping here) at 8:30 PM- just when the sun was setting. After piling on our 40 pound packs, we stated walking along the trail we walked down many times. We passed our usual spot about half a mile down and everything after that was new to us! Continue reading →

July 6th-7th Trip

23 Monday Jul 2012

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Angeles National Forrest, campground, camping, camping trips, dehydrated, girlie, girly, girly camping, gold rush, heat, heat stroke, Heaton Flats, july, mountains, prospecting, prospector, river, San Gabriel, sluice

We left San Diego on Friday at 7:30 PM right after work to avoid the traffic. My brother lives in LA so off we went to make a pit-stop at his Tujunga house then off to the Angeles National Forrest. We arrived at 12:30 AM and got a prime parking spot. After loading up our gear on our backs we hiked about 0.5 miles to Heaton Flats campground. We noticed a ridiculous amount of people and hadn’t taken into consideration the holiday earlier that week. After setting up our camp, we situated a table out of a bucket and sluice (pronounced like “juice” with a sl- instead of j-) and got our game on with Phase 10- one of the greatest card games EVER! It was about mid-low 60’s and it felt great! After a few rounds of card and a couple shots of Jack Daniels it was off to bed where a busy day was ahead of us! Continue reading →