My California - San Antonio Canyon
For this weeks Show Us Your California contest by @socalsteemit I take you to a beautiful canyon in the San Gabriel mountains...
San Antonio Canyon!!
San Antonio Canyon is a huge canyon in the San Gabriel mountains. And in it is the town of Mt. Baldy. Which as the name suggests sits at the foot of Mt. Baldy the tallest mountain in Los Angeles county!! Besides the town, the canyon features the Mt. Baldy ski resort, the beautiful San Antonio creek, as well as many awesome hiking trails that can take you all over the surrounding mountains and canyons!
San Antonio Creek
On this trip to San Antonio canyon my buddy Pat and I started at the Barrett-Stoddard road and hiked down to the top of the Baldy slide which is a really cool natural waterslide on the creek! The water was flowing pretty good, but the pool looked really shallow. We continued hiking down the remnants of the old road and Pat showed me a bunch of cool stuff including a hidden cabin deep down in the canyon bottom where someone has built a home on top of an old cabin ruins is actually living there!
Baldy Slide from the top
The hidden cabin
We continued down canyon and checked out Hidden lake which was really just a small mossy pond, but it was nice. And we checked out the old boyscout camp and the old water gauge station.
Hidden Lake
My buddy Pat in a bunch of Blackberry vines
Ladybugs!
The old boy scout camp
Then we headed back upstream, rock hopping up the creek bed. We went up the creek all the way to the bottom of the Baldy slide where we confirmed our suspicions about the pool being shallow. It was only around 3 feet deep. We cooled off in the water and cleaned up all the trash from all the litter bugs that come to the slide. Then we climbed up from the creek and headed back up the old road to our car at the Barrett-Stoddard road. Wrapping up another beautiful day of hiking in the San Gabriel mountains!
San Antonio creek
We found the remnants of an old motor bike
San Antonio creek
Wildflowers
San Antonio canyon near the Baldy Slide
The Baldy Slide
I hope you have enjoyed this weeks glimpse into My California!
Until next time...
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Hmmmm.... your photos are having me rethink the answer in the mystery photo friday contest! 😃
Looks like a gorgeous hike. How crazy someone is living there. So off the grid!
It was a great hike. Pat wanted to introduce me to the person that built that cabin, but unfortunately he wasn't there at the time. From what I hear he sounds like an interesting character. lol.
I'm curious about how someone can be living there? I imagine there was a time when a person could find a nice place with no one else in the US and just starting living there, but now with all the rules and regulations and the fact that almost every square inch of land is owned by someone (even though they probably stole it from Native Americans), it seems that being poor is a crime.
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Yes. I know what you mean. From what I understand this guys family somehow still owned this piece of property even though the original cabin and the old road were washed away. The newer road was built high up on the hill, but even without car access this guy was able to rebuild a more modern home on top of the old cabins foundation. I would think there would be some kind of regulations that would make it illegal. It is pretty hidden... it's so overgrown all around it that you can't even see it until your only about 20ft away. Wish I could've met the guy. Pat said he's a really interesting dude. Supposedly he's really into rock climbing.
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Fantastic hike! I need to go to there, hehe!
Yep. And this is just a scratch on the surface. San Antonio canyon is really huge and has so much awesome hiking!
You always share some really cool spots! I have got to get out that way to explore some of these. :) That is a ton of lady bugs! I don't think I've ever seen that many in one place before. Nature never ceases to amaze me!
Thanks @plantstoplanks! There really is a ton of cool cool spots to hike here in California. There were so many lady bugs! They were all over the vines around that little pond. It's always neat to find little spots like that where the lady bugs just take over.
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