RIP The San Gabriel Mountains

So as everyone in Southern California knows, a wildfire in the San Gabriel Mountains has burned completely out of control. What started as than 100 acres last Wednesday has now spread to over 80,000 acres, causing tremendous damage along the way. Fortunately in the La Crescenta/ La Canada/ Pasadena areas most homes seem to be out of harms way, but most of the regions best hiking and mountain biking trails have been completely decimated. It's going to take a lot time and hard work on the trails to get them back to the way they were... Unfortunately most of us bikers and hiker are going to be dead or elderly by the time the forest grows back to how it once was just a week ago. Although it could have been worse this is still a devastating loss...