"THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE!"

Hey Family - Let me tell you about my adventure last Saturday. I decided to hike up to the "Bridge to Nowhere," which turned out to be quite the hike. Up at the end of San Gabriel Canyon through the canyon narrows -- it is a fairly challenging hike which is 13 miles round trip. I joined a couple of college kids going up (thankfully, they were better prepared than I was). It took us about 5 hours to reach the bridge (after taking a couple of wrong turns!) and about 3-1/2 hours to hike back. Even though it is only 6-1/2 miles up there, there is a lot of up and down, climbing over boulders and fording the stream a half dozen times, so the going can be a little slow. The bridge is absolutely gorgeous -- built in 1936, it cross the deepest part of the gorge. Built by the WPA during the Great Depression, the highway leading to the bridge washed away in a big flood before they could complete the tunnel from the bridge to Angeles Crest Highway -- so they abandoned the bridge and never dug the tunnel -- it just ends in the side of the mountain. Anyway, here are a couple of photos.