Your video shows an excellent example of the recovery of an area burned by the Station Fire in 2009. There is a lot of greenery in the burned areas yet there are still signs of the fire. Since this was taken in the spring of a relatively wet year it is quite green and now in October it is quite brown a part of the normal wet dry cycle here. This past rainy season of July 2010 thru June of 2011 is sort of an anomoly with a La Nina year normally bringing dry conditions here but not this time.
@jthornley12@jthornley12 No, can't say that I remember that. The last time I even got close to the canyon, which is only about 2 miles from my house, I went to see if Mt. Gleason had caught on fire. Sure enough, it had & the road was closed at that point, so I couldn't go further. That's the big mountain that is due north of the entrance on Mt. Gleason Ave. I guess I'll have to check it out sometime. But hey...I discovered there are some Yosemite Nat'l. Park videos here. Check them out!
@Soaptivated Hmm right now I honestly can't remember. Perhaps I got them in a video or picture that I took, but from memory I can't remember seeing them. I remember the Bridge, but can't remember the houses being there or not.. Jt
@Soaptivated I'll remember that! We were there when one day it was beautiful Sun, next it was simply tipping it down and the road got closed that runs through the Canyon :) You might remember it, around middle of March time this year.
@jthornley12 How odd to be asking a bloke in the UK about my local canyon...lol. My next door neighbor is from Liverpool, but he wouldn't know what's happening up there either. :o)
A nice, quick getaway, but we rarely take advantage of it. It usually looks a lot drier than when you were there, even though those mountain tops usually get some snow nearly every year. Not much though; they're in the middle of a desert. L.A. is one big irrigated desert. Try Yosemite next visit - awesome!
@jth12 So now I have to ask, as you were driving up there, there's a cluster of 4-5 homes right alongside the road...just before a bridge. If you were returning to Sunland-Tujunga on your way back down, as you came across that bridge, you'd be directly facing the big picture window of one of those homes higher up above you. A few of my high school friends from long ago lived in those homes. I am wondering if they're still , or if they burned down. About 6mi/10km into the canyon. See them?
@jthornley12 Okay. So you took Big Tujunga Canyon Rd. from Sunland-Tujunga, went northeast into the canyon and at the end of that road you came to a stop sign, where it meets up with Angeles Crest Hwy. That tells me the road is open at least that far. It also tells me that you may have passed Vogal Flats. Chances are the sign on the road is gone, but the turnoff leads to numerous homes down in the canyon below the road that were lost in the fire...about 12 miles up BTC Rd.
Your video shows an excellent example of the recovery of an area burned by the Station Fire in 2009. There is a lot of greenery in the burned areas yet there are still signs of the fire. Since this was taken in the spring of a relatively wet year it is quite green and now in October it is quite brown a part of the normal wet dry cycle here. This past rainy season of July 2010 thru June of 2011 is sort of an anomoly with a La Nina year normally bringing dry conditions here but not this time.
NICENAD 4 months ago
@Passiflora101 No problem, I didn't even notice if I'm honest :)
jthornley12 5 months ago
@jthornley12 Oops! I signed in with the wrong account! Sorry! :)
Passiflora101 5 months ago
@Passiflora101 I will do :)
jthornley12 5 months ago
@jthornley12 @jthornley12 No, can't say that I remember that. The last time I even got close to the canyon, which is only about 2 miles from my house, I went to see if Mt. Gleason had caught on fire. Sure enough, it had & the road was closed at that point, so I couldn't go further. That's the big mountain that is due north of the entrance on Mt. Gleason Ave. I guess I'll have to check it out sometime. But hey...I discovered there are some Yosemite Nat'l. Park videos here. Check them out!
Passiflora101 5 months ago
@Soaptivated Hmm right now I honestly can't remember. Perhaps I got them in a video or picture that I took, but from memory I can't remember seeing them. I remember the Bridge, but can't remember the houses being there or not.. Jt
jthornley12 6 months ago
@Soaptivated I'll remember that! We were there when one day it was beautiful Sun, next it was simply tipping it down and the road got closed that runs through the Canyon :) You might remember it, around middle of March time this year.
jthornley12 6 months ago
@jthornley12 How odd to be asking a bloke in the UK about my local canyon...lol. My next door neighbor is from Liverpool, but he wouldn't know what's happening up there either. :o)
A nice, quick getaway, but we rarely take advantage of it. It usually looks a lot drier than when you were there, even though those mountain tops usually get some snow nearly every year. Not much though; they're in the middle of a desert. L.A. is one big irrigated desert. Try Yosemite next visit - awesome!
Soaptivated 6 months ago
@jth12 So now I have to ask, as you were driving up there, there's a cluster of 4-5 homes right alongside the road...just before a bridge. If you were returning to Sunland-Tujunga on your way back down, as you came across that bridge, you'd be directly facing the big picture window of one of those homes higher up above you. A few of my high school friends from long ago lived in those homes. I am wondering if they're still , or if they burned down. About 6mi/10km into the canyon. See them?
Soaptivated 6 months ago
@jthornley12 Okay. So you took Big Tujunga Canyon Rd. from Sunland-Tujunga, went northeast into the canyon and at the end of that road you came to a stop sign, where it meets up with Angeles Crest Hwy. That tells me the road is open at least that far. It also tells me that you may have passed Vogal Flats. Chances are the sign on the road is gone, but the turnoff leads to numerous homes down in the canyon below the road that were lost in the fire...about 12 miles up BTC Rd.
Soaptivated 6 months ago