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Bob Spears, lead trail maintenance volunteer for the first 3.5 miles of the Mount Wilson Trail, which starts in the city of Sierra Madre and is one of the most popular hikes in the area.“We're seeing vast changes in the weather patterns and that's going to affect a lot of how we do things,” Spears said. “And in my particular case, it's a lot about how we maintain the trail.”
As we hike, Spears points out the local names of spots along the trail: Smoker’s Tree, where people often smoke cigarettes and toss the butts on the ground, which “makes me nuts,” said Spears . Then there’s Earthquake Fault — a popular area for bears to traverse, Spears notes with a chuckle, sharing a story of watching one amble by just a few feet away. Then there’s Rescue Ridge, a ridge with enough flat space at the end so helicopters could land to make rescues “back in the day,” Spears said.
A sign showing a new route built to avoid increasing erosion on the Mt. Wilson Trail, named in honor of former lead trail volunteer Charlie Bell, who has since retired at 91 years old.From the first trails made by local Indigenous people, to settlers cutting trails with burros to take lumber from the forest, to the present day when thousands of hikers find a bit of peace in nature away from the bustle of the city, our local trails have long shifted and been remade.
“I'm going to try to do whatever I can to stabilize this trail, but if we get the second flood from Noah, I’m not going to be able to sustain it,” Spears said.The Sisyphean effort of maintaining trails feels like a metaphor for dealing with the climate crisis as a whole.— Bob Spears, lead trail maintenance volunteer for the Mt. Wilson Trail in Sierra Madre.
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