getting out of the city

Monday, May 31, 2004, at 01:39PM

By Eric Richardson

On Saturday Kathy and I went hiking in the Angeles National Forest, beginning our journey just next to JPL's east lot. I took pictures with my phone, but Linux and bluetooth don't seem to want to help me out with transferring pictures to the computer, so those'll be coming along with a bit of lag. :

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000068
 printing eip:
c017d857
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]

Doh. Now to build a 2.6.7pre and see if there are any fixes in there. But back to hiking...

It was remarkable to me to be hiking through all kinds of mountain terrain and to be able to say "Hey, I work right here." The trail itself is a fun one that goes through quite a lot of change. It starts as a paved road, turns to a dirt road, turns to a dirt trail, and then turns to a, well, sort of trail. This site covers the route we took pretty well.

Oakwilde Campground was where we finally turned around. Another site lists the round trip at 10 miles. Sitting at the campground for a minute recuperating before heading back we had a bit of a funny experience. We were sitting on a picnic table, and there were several tents set up nearby. All of a sudden I noticed that the tent directly in front of us was the exact same one I had sitting in my trunk at the base of the trail. Kathy had never seen my tent set up, so I was able to show her this one, albeit without rain cover on. The pair who owned the tent were on a one-way hike down from the Angeles Crest Highway to JPL where they would be picked up. Oakwilde was their resting spot for the night, though it was pretty early to be set up there (3pm or so). It would be a nice place to sit and read a book next to the stream, though.

We saw one snake, but it was small and harmless. It made its way off the side of the trail when we got too near.

The trail follows roughly the course of a road that provided access to a resort and some cabins in the teens and twenties. Most of it is gone now, but occasional remains of bridges and slabs of concrete are still to be found, as are the foundations of various buildings.

All in all a great time, and not that crowded back on the trail despite the parking area being completely packed.