Camping at Glen Camp along the West Fork of the San Gabriel River

This past weekend we checked out a new campspot, as it was Mel's last summer weekend. We heard about this spot from a friend who fly fishes along river. It's called the West Fork San Gabriel River and it takes only 50 minutes to get there from Long Beach (pretty awesome). The river has an old paved road running alongside it from the parking lot, and about 6.5 miles back on this road is the campspot. The road is closed to the public and is only accessible to the handicapped, rangers and whoever has keys (looked like there's about 30 different locks on the gate). So we took our road bikes as our friend said they'd do fine, and our gear and biked in! It was pretty awesome, and actually pretty easy with the bikes. Within the first mile or so there's lots of people playing in the river and hanging out for the day, and then still some another mile or so back, but then there's basically no one after that. About 4 miles in there's a bait shop called the Pasadena Fishing Club, i think, with supplies for fishing and what not. They were closed when we stopped by, but it looks cool. We just hung out most of the day, biking back, stopping, eating, reading, and playing around. Our friends Neil (the flyfisherman) and Marylin came and met up later to hang out too. We fished some with him, and continued to hang out and eat more as the night fell. The campspot is pretty cool, maybe 8 sites total, among some trees and spaced out enough. There are fire rings and plenty of wood around, no running water, but a pit toilet available. However there were a few pretty big black widows hangin out with decent webs in the bathroom, so I didn't venture into it. The awesome part is, it's a free campspot, as long as you have the Adventure Pass, and on a Saturday in mid August, we were the only ones at the camp! Pretty awesome considering this is so close to LA, and so easily accessible with bikes. On top of that, the fishing was pretty fun, and the river was super nice.

riding to the campspot is a slow incline the whole way there, but so slow that you don't notice it too much. then on the way back, it's all downhill!

It was pretty hot on the way up, so we hung in the shade some, cooked and read about Chile!


Neil caught maybe 6 or 7 little rainbow trout, maybe 5-6 inches in length. i got a handful of bites but no catch

Marylin brought the hammock and got lost in it i think.



Here's the campspot!

Nightfall

We got up early, made a fire, ate, and headed on out.

Pretty awesome morning ride, chilly air, minimal pedaling, and no one around

Action shots!

self-inclusive action shots!