Back in the Saddle and Riding for the Hills
Could horses (and people) be allowed back on Griffith Park's trails this weekend? Rumblings among Burbank's equestrians, who have been kept out of the fire-scarred park since the May 8 wildfire (while one ranch was allowed back in), is that LA Recreation and Parks will open some of the trails late Friday or Saturday. The rumor mill says it'll all be clear at a Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa news conference tomorrow, and parts of the Rattlesnake, Oaks Canyon and Skyline Loop trails are on the list. That means five to six miles of trail for those traveling on two and four legs.
I called Recreation and Parks just before noon for an update, and they weren't talking. But Villaraigosa is scheduled to tour the park at noon Friday and do a news conference at 1 p.m., during which he will discuss the park's recovery, according to a press aide I spoke with earlier.
If the comments on Rec and Parks' Griffith Park Recovery blog is an indcation, there are a lot of frustrated trailblazers out there.