[pct-l] Downed timber and brush on the trail

[goforth@cio.net (Joanne Lennox)]

I talked to Pete Fish this morning.  He is the trail  maintenance
coordinator for Southern California.  Also have been incontact with two
people that have surveyed parts of the trail north of Agua dulce.  This is
an area where you would expect the least amount of down timber (relativley
speaking).  It appears that a fairly sizeable area has received storm
damage this winter.  Appears to be a combination of lots of wet heavy
snow(2-3 feet) , and a wind storm.  Knocked a lot of live Oak trees down as
well as conifers, but also pushed the brush down into the trail.  The trail
is impassable to stock in areas, and has douzens of trees down - seems to
be especially bad on northern slopes. 

Pete had this to say:

Date:   3/26/101  8:23 AM

RE:     PCT Alert - Angeles NF



PCT Alert - 

It is becoming apparent  following recent snow storms that there are many
trees and limbs down blocking the PCT in Angeles NF.  The ones we now know
about are in Section E (Lake Hughes Road to Pine Canyon Road Maps E 6 - 9).
 This section is impassable to stock.   The trail is also blocked  by 2
downed trees a mile or so west of Mill Creek Summit. Sec D map D-10.  Snow
still covers  much of the San Gabriels and is expected to linger for some
time on northern exposures.  We suspect a lot of downed trees/limbs
throughout this area from upper Lytle Ridge/Blue Ridge area west..  It will
take time to clear all that we are aware of now and we won't really know
what the rest of the trail looks like for some time.