Exploring the Big Tujunga Creek Wash - POVLA 0036
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- #explorelocal #history #tujunga #losangeles #hiking #explorelocal #sunland
Neighbor Mike take a short trip to our local stomping ground. We are limiting where we go, as we are under "Shelter In Place" rules, utilizing local exercise to explore some unnamed canyons above the Big Tujunga Creek Wash.
Someone is building some trails up there, so we attempt to find where they lead. And who ever is building them is a beast! Good work Sasquatch!
And we also explore a very loose Canyon across the wash. We went there so you don't have to. You are welcome.
Note: I mentioned that Cornelius Johnson killed the LAST Grizzly in California in 1916. This is incorrect. He shot the last Grizzly in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. The last official Grizzly was killed in Fresno County (Central California) in 1922. The last known sighting of a Grizzly in California was 1924/25.
Here is the story behind the LAST GRIZZLY BEAR killed in Southern California near Tujunga, CA.
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I worked in that area for a long time as a wildland firefighter. The trail you were on looks like practice handline from a fire crew, probably an LA County inmate handcrew. The metal pipe going through the canyon looks like the one that was used to feed the water tank just east of the old camp 15. The Forest Service constructed a bunch of these on the Angeles from the 50's through the late 70's. These were used for fighting brush fires in the area. There used to be a concrete box with a yellow lid down by Big T road that housed the hydrant.
Awesome info! Thanks.
Awesome adventure!
Thanks!
Loved the video! Keep up the good work! I love to explore too and I film my drives. It's a great way to discover new places! All the best and looking forward to more videos.
Thanks for watching! Great videos btw!
Ugh in love with these videos! I hiked to the hog farm from Big Tujunga Cyn this evening. I've seen the hog farm (well, the land) up for sale on Zillow and other housing sites. Would be cool content as there's lots of history there.
Yes! Very cool history up at the hog farm. Was a wild place back in the day. I have been up there a few times before and after the fire. Sadly i watched the building burn from my house in the creek fire. Thanks again for watching!
I grew up there back in the 60's near Foothill Blvd and hiked up to the hog farm a few times when it was an actual hog farm.
You guys kick AZZ,,,great Video as always
Thanks! 😎
Excellent content, great story with near perfect pacing of shots. (Some industry training maybe?) I stumbled upon your vids by accident while viewing some other vids about Big "T'. I grew up in La Crescenta mid 60's to mid 80's. Used to hike the old WPA fire breaks coming off the top of Ramsdell where, before the construction of "Pine Crest" and the infamous technique by Webster Wiley of loping off the top of one ridgeline and filling in the adjacent canyon to enlarge a flat buildable space for houses. This effectively cut off my boyhood access to the fire break under 950 ft. of dirt.
I would like to know more about the water pipe and how it gets its water.
Looks like you're near Delta Flats. I love Tujunga. Lived there through the 90's
Thanks for another great video...I just now made a page with numbers so I can check off which ones I have seen. Truly "our" hikes (LOL) are medicine for my soul during these crazy times.
That’s good to hear. I need to get back out there and make some more. :) thanks for all of the wonderful comments, sharing and support!
When hiking in Big T, you need to be careful with the killer bee’s. Never swat at them or kill one. They like to intimidate you, by ramming you in the chest area, a sign that you are near one of their hives. Just let them do their thing and they will eventually leave you alone. If you do harm one, they will send out a scent to others passing by, and they will attack you until one or more stings you, and they won’t give up until the sun goes down.
As always, great video.
That look like “hell n back”
Go check out the Pipe canyon just next down the road a little bit, I wonder there’s a waterfall inside.
Johnny PromPrai yes! I have been up ole pipe cyn a few times, if only a few hundred yards, where the poison oak and tangled undergrowth becomes thick and annoying. Pipe is a great canyon to watch when the spring rains hit. As far as i can tell, there is only a a ten-ish foot falls near the mouth. But it does flow pretty well when the rain is heavy. There is a cabin nearby which is the oldest in the vicinity. And gold canyon is just a quick buzz up Big T. Next, i plan to wander Gold Canyon, find the lost spanish gold mines and will report back. #tujungagold. #explorelocal :)
Lived in Sunland Tujunga for 25 years. Never went where you did. Area was beautiful once. Still miss it.
It is an amazing area! So much to explore.
My old stomping grounds: Big Tujunga Canyon...
Wow, I'm stunned. Something is definitely wrong. But before I get into what that let me say that I live "very" close to this area now, and grew up in Mammoth. I'm familiar with most of the places in your vids. Super cool. The problem I'm speaking about is that I have been able to make some videos and managed to get a few million views, but my video quality is ridiculously amateurish compared with yours. You should have many many thousands more views that I do. I would love to have your technical ability . We need to talk. LOL. I am struggling with ideas but I just don't have the know how to get them into my videos. Have a look at my stuff and you'll see what I'm talking about. Hahah I can get out decent stuff, but I struggle horribly. It takes me forever, and I'm always left with the feeling I could have done much better. Your drone is a great asset, and the mapping is insane. My email is in my channels "about" section. I would love to chat. Looking forward. Thanks.
Dr. G Ha! Your compliments are much appreciated. I looked at your vids and You have a great channel and format for collectors. Your yukon video is also very cool! You seem to be an expert in a specific niche, and that is the way to go on UA-cam. I am just another hiking/travel channel. But i have a good time making these and think my kid will like videos of his pops one day. Cheers!
the "trail" is a fire line, probably cut by cal fire
You could be right. Maybe To protect the grove? But strange they just cut through the middle of it then and didnt go all the way around. Also strange they didnt use machines.
I thought the last Grizzly was shot Tejon Pass...
It is certainly up for debate. The killem quick bear was apparently the last in “Southern” California. But who knows. The only reason they wanted the “last” bear was to market the skull and sell tickets to show it off. Classic turn of the century shenanigans. I have heard of the tejon bear, but didnt think it was the last. :)
great story telling, great editing skills! Have you ever encountered strange noises right at the beginning of Kill em trail? I have encountered strange weird noises on two occasions late in the evening around 6:00 pm never earlier than that. On one occasion by dogs would not go past the trail head at the fire road they started whining but not barking as strange noises came from that area. I hike, back pack, solo ride and love cutting-in new trails alone, but I truly have never experienced what I experience on those two occasions last month. - also ralphy199 on insta
That's interesting. Yes I have heard strange sound in the area recently. Almost sounds like a rattle snake and is about 20 ft from the KEQ entrance. We found the noise to be from a 2 inch black poly pipe, sputtering water from a puncture hole. Sounds like spitting/hissing. The pipe then goes under the road and empties into the bushes. I actually shot video of it making noise on this hike, but i didn't include it. Maybe that was the noise you were hearing? The pipe probably only leaks water after a good amount of rain.
@@POVLA yes man that must be it! great i'm not going loco after all .. LOL
ralphy199 scared the crap out me the first time.
@@POVLA yes same here man! plus i was alone and when you are alone you just don't do many things that could get you in trouble. I was thinking what if I go check it out and some large unknown never seen before anaconda gets me. I just couldn't explain it, so glad I found someone that had some logic explanation and had the balls to go check it out. Thanks dude!
Oh look at me, I'm in the middle of nowhere, outside, with a full face respirator on. HAHA you won't catch me corona.
In reality it may look crazy, but is effective. Unlike a surgical mask..
any signs of wildlife
Yep. plenty of wildlife up there. Quite a few deer up the creeks.
let sheep roam in those canyons…They eat poison oak like its candy…Better yet …put a contract out with a sheep herderto decrease fire danger..
Good idea! Probably 50 layers of red tape.
Do like the Feds say…”Better to beg forgiveness…than …ask permission.”..
Take a couple pregnant ewes…They won’t run fast and they are always hungry….
l hate to break the news but but the original inhabitants of the canyon beat you to the punch at least ten thousand years ago without camera or gunpowder
That can be said of almost any place. But canyon walls, especially in the loose San Gabriels, can change dramatically in major storms, so you may be seeing exposure, layers, rocks and boulders that have not been revealed for a very, very, very long time.
I have the deepest respect for those who came before me and very rarely imagine I am the first to stand in any one spot, but it does happen. :)
What ya found is the remanence of an old 60s-70s Grow Farm
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Maybe. But the pipes did run toward the old homestead down the hill. The property is demolished now, but I believe they were simply piping into the spring source to bring it downhill efficiently. They had a swimming pool at the old house - needed water.