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Outside Magazine article about ANF from 1997

Accidentally ran across this article about the "most dangerous national forest in America".

Interesting quote (read article for more context)...
Quote:
As many as 30,000 people a day visit San Gabriel Canyon on weekends, and all of them, of course, come in automobiles.
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The only way to keep an area beautiful, she now believes, is not to build roads there: "People who really love the land and nature are the same ones who don't mind hiking there."


LOL @ this...
Quote:
It's another 30 minutes before I can comprehend that I'm still in Los Angeles County. This realization comes suddenly, though, when a yahoo in a Japanese sports car comes at me off a curve just below Red Box in a two-wheel drift, passing so close I can see the combination of belligerence and panic in his eyes.
TacoDelRio

HikeUp

Gonna start calling you a belligerent yahoo. Laughing
Zé

was Taco old enough to drive back then?   Laughing
AW

Maybe another installment of Angeles Forest 'transportation' is in order. To be fair, I cant just discriminate against Highway 39 and cars.
TacoDelRio

Zé wrote:
was Taco old enough to drive back then?   Laughing


I have no idea what you're talking about.



HEY, WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?! Aw, man.
Zé

<checks Taco's grad year on fcbk> oh hell yeah, way illegal! illegal illegal illegal! you were probably 12! driving like a maniac on Starbucks CAFFEINE! probably up on GRR sipping on some latte and taking in GU and taking out cyclists!

Razz
TacoDelRio

Caffeine... GU... reminds me of someone I wouldn't give a ride to.

Hey, that rhymes.

Belligerent Yahoo reporting in.
TacoDelRio

Note signature...
HikeUp

TacoDelRio wrote:
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Sporting your "yahoo" bonafides!
TacoDelRio

HikeUp wrote:
TacoDelRio wrote:
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Sporting your "yahoo" bonafides!


Gotta take pride in one's ability to get so many people riled up over nothing. Laughing
AW

Zé wrote:
<checks Taco's grad year on fcbk> oh hell yeah, way illegal! illegal illegal illegal! you were probably 12! driving like a maniac on Starbucks CAFFEINE! probably up on GRR sipping on some latte and taking in GU and taking out cyclists!

Razz


Yes, but what tune was playing? Initial D's 'We Roll' ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggeJn2IfrPk ) didnt come out till later.
HikeUp

simonov

I can see the combination of belligerence and panic in his posts.
TacoDelRio

simonov wrote:
I can see the combination of belligerence and panic in his posts.



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