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This morning, inside the Station Fire

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I met up with naturalist Christopher Nyerges this morning before 7 at his home in The Meadows neighborhood of Altadena, which had been evacuated Saturday as the fire swept through on its way east from the mountains above La Canada.

We walked down the trail into the Upper Arroyo Seco above JPL, hitting the Arroyo floor about where the ranger's house is, and headed upstream.

The fire had moved through the area over the weekend, and we were expecting the worst for this crucial watershed which, though wild land, is actually within the city limits of Pasadena so that the city can capture the water from the year-round stream.

In the Great Hiking Era, dozens of cabins and even hotels were there, and the Valley Hunt Club had a clubhouse, presumably from which to ... hunt. The only critters we saw were lots of quail.

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It was an amazing moonscape. We were ankle-deep in ashes. But, somewhat miraculously, the alders that line the streambed were mostly untouched, and the stream continues to flow through deep shade. Firefighters had clearly been there days before, defending the area and stopping its spread into The Meadows and La Vina. Trees had been chopped down to stop the flames. It was overwhelmingly quiet. And then we began to see live embers -- and then, farther up, trees that were still burning, as well as logs burning alongside the trail. We doused some fires with dirt kicked from our boots and with water from Christopher's canteen.

The semi-developed Gould Mesa, where I have often camped, was untouched. But the canyon walls on both sides of the stream were entirely scorched. The fire had just not made it down into the canyon bottom in numerous places.

Until we got past Gould, all the bridges were intact. But the biggest bridge, on the way up to Switzer's, will need to be replaced.

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We visited with USFS firefighters on the way down who were in the area from their Devil's Punchbowl base. They, and the many hundreds of them who are still battling the blaze, have done an extraordinary job, and all of us, especially those of us who love to hike, give them our deepest thanks.


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Wow, good work, Larry! I'm glad the canyon floor hasn't burnt and that Gould survived. How far along the trail did you get? Did you reach Paul Little campground?

Great photos, Larry.

I hate seeing those beautiful woods go up in flames. Keeping my fingers crossed that the fires stay away from Mt. Wilson.

sorry, john -- and fyi i'm not sure which john this is -- i thought that i'd replied earlier and it somehow didn't take. no, we didn't make it to paul little -- for non-hiking readers, no relation to the chamber of commerce president -- because the bridge in the last picture (sorry it's blurry, out of focus -- will replace with another foto) is burned out just below paul little. so we turned around rather than go down into the stream and climb back up. will post more pix tomorrow from the same hike -- cheers, larry

I'm conflicted about whether or not the firefighters should even be fighting this fire.

The mountains can take of themselves.
They don't need human beings meddling in their affairs, particularly if it is just to save homes belonging to wealthy people whose residences impede upon the habitat of wildlife.

While it's true that the native plants actually seed themselves in fire, and so are adapted to a fire ecology, it's also true that over 100's of years people have been building in the forest and on its edges. It's not just the wealthy who own these homes, even if the media only shows pictures of La Canada etc. Many working class and middle class people own homes in the areas affected by the fire.

Larry, can just anyone walk in there or did you have special permission? I'm dying to take a look, but don't want to interfere with the firefighters.

More photos please!! Thanks for this report!

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