I celebrated a milestone over the weekend, hiking my four-hundredth trail mile of the year! A few friends and members of my Facebook hiking club joined me on the hike down to Sturtevant Falls in the Angeles National Forest.

I’ve never been one to hike in Griffith Park often.  Since the park is located in the center of Los Angeles, it’s usually crowded, and, although it’s covered in miles upon miles of trails, most of them are wide enough to be called fire roads.  I’d much prefer a single track in the neighboring San [...]