Comments on: Hiking Mount Lukens via Haines Canyon http://www.modernhiker.com/2008/03/09/hiking-mount-lukens-via-haines-canyon/ A Hiking Blog for L.A. and Southern California Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:38:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Modern Hiker http://www.modernhiker.com/2008/03/09/hiking-mount-lukens-via-haines-canyon/#comment-3341 Modern Hiker Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:07:30 +0000 http://www.modernhiker.com/2008/03/09/hiking-mount-lukens-via-haines-canyon/#comment-3341 Jim, thanks for the great additional info and corrections -- AND for volunteering your time to help maintain our trails! Jim, thanks for the great additional info and corrections — AND for volunteering your time to help maintain our trails!

]]> By: Hikin' Jim http://www.modernhiker.com/2008/03/09/hiking-mount-lukens-via-haines-canyon/#comment-3324 Hikin' Jim Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:09:09 +0000 http://www.modernhiker.com/2008/03/09/hiking-mount-lukens-via-haines-canyon/#comment-3324 Casey: The creek that you mention in your write up runs pretty much year round. I live nearby and normally hike at least part way up the Sister Elsie Trail one or more times per week. Last September after 2 drought years in a row, the creek was still running. Surprisingly, it's a reliable water source. By the way, if you noticed any recent cuts in the brush, I took my loppers up around the time that you hiked up and opened up one REALLY bad spot of poison oak that literally had woven itself together from two sides of the trail. Gretchen: The terrain is mostly chapparal on the sides of the canyon. Down in the bottom of the canyon is typical S. Calif. riparian (stream side) habitat: a lot of alders, willows, and sycamores. In several places you go through some nice oak tree groves. Once you leave the fire road and continue up canyon, it's greener with more oaks. The debris basin has been there for years. I think it was there in the 70's. The creek flows down Haines Canyon much of the way below ground, but is forced to the surface in a number of places. HJ Casey: The creek that you mention in your write up runs pretty much year round. I live nearby and normally hike at least part way up the Sister Elsie Trail one or more times per week. Last September after 2 drought years in a row, the creek was still running. Surprisingly, it’s a reliable water source. By the way, if you noticed any recent cuts in the brush, I took my loppers up around the time that you hiked up and opened up one REALLY bad spot of poison oak that literally had woven itself together from two sides of the trail.

Gretchen: The terrain is mostly chapparal on the sides of the canyon. Down in the bottom of the canyon is typical S. Calif. riparian (stream side) habitat: a lot of alders, willows, and sycamores. In several places you go through some nice oak tree groves. Once you leave the fire road and continue up canyon, it’s greener with more oaks. The debris basin has been there for years. I think it was there in the 70’s. The creek flows down Haines Canyon much of the way below ground, but is forced to the surface in a number of places.

HJ

]]> By: Gretchen Havens http://www.modernhiker.com/2008/03/09/hiking-mount-lukens-via-haines-canyon/#comment-3156 Gretchen Havens Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:41:15 +0000 http://www.modernhiker.com/2008/03/09/hiking-mount-lukens-via-haines-canyon/#comment-3156 I am writing a book that includes stories about my first husband and myself when we lived in Tujunga in the early 70s. We used to hike in Haines Canyon, which was a short drive from our apartment on Valmont Street. I'm trying to remember the terrain in Haines Canyon, once you park your car and start out. Is it mostly chaparral there, and low vegetation? Or are there trees? Do you know if the debris basin was there in the 70s? Any streams/creeks within the first mile or so? We used to shoot in the Canyon! I'll bet that isn't legal. (Maybe it wasn't then, either.) Your photos and description of your hike are wonderful and helped me to recreate that time in my mind. Thanks very much! Gretchen Havens I am writing a book that includes stories about my first husband and myself when we lived in Tujunga in the early 70s. We used to hike in Haines Canyon, which was a short drive from our apartment on Valmont Street. I’m trying to remember the terrain in Haines Canyon, once you park your car and start out. Is it mostly chaparral there, and low vegetation? Or are there trees? Do you know if the debris basin was there in the 70s? Any streams/creeks within the first mile or so? We used to shoot in the Canyon! I’ll bet that isn’t legal. (Maybe it wasn’t then, either.)

Your photos and description of your hike are wonderful and helped me to recreate that time in my mind. Thanks very much!

Gretchen Havens

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