{"id":2214,"date":"2012-01-15T20:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2012-01-15T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:02:15","slug":"sturtevant-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2214","title":{"rendered":"sturtevant falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe a month ago Sam and I planned to spend a Saturday in January hiking to a waterfall with Cindy. \u00a0A little over a week ago Sam was informed she&#8217;d have to go to China for work for a few weeks. \u00a0This waterfall turned out to be a decent one, so it&#8217;s a shame that Sam couldn&#8217;t come.<\/p>\n<p>Sturtevant Falls is part of the Chantry Flats area of Angeles National Forest. \u00a0The trail to the falls goes down a steep paved fire road to the bottom of the canyon. \u00a0Once down at the bottom there are several trailheads to choose from, all meandering through the woods next to little streams. \u00a0Sturtevant was a popular destination on Saturday as there was no parking in the main parking lot &#8211; we had to wedge ourselves into the walls of the mountain along the road and hike perhaps a quarter of a mile just to get up to the regular parking lot. \u00a0The actual waterfall area was similarly jam packed with picture takers and\u00a0picnickers. \u00a0I never really was able to get a decent shot &#8211; it would have been a long wait.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post my photos below &#8211; but they are all eerily similar to the one&#8217;s on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-of-waterfalls.com\/california-sturtevant-falls.html\" target=\"_blank\">this site<\/a>, which I recommend checking out as it even has a video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-ru5NWckjWgQ\/TxOeIcxtnHI\/AAAAAAAAF_A\/8JaYAyWduCg\/s600\/DSC06579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This (above) is near where we parked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-mAelu6Uhxn0\/TxOeJJANW1I\/AAAAAAAAF_I\/4RrteFFljJE\/s640\/DSC06571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once hitting the bottom of the fire road most of the rest of the way is spent walking along the dirt trail next to the little creek (with several dams).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-ZfkJfCQNEik\/TxOeJa5tiwI\/AAAAAAAAF_Q\/bTGmIGU2C1s\/s720\/DSC06572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-75MfkYBaVNo\/TxOeJ22n3MI\/AAAAAAAAF_U\/xh5cJEIP7m4\/s720\/DSC06574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-WgYaBkLSJzc\/TxOeKfsywXI\/AAAAAAAAF_g\/juhTGhlX4Lc\/s720\/DSC06575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-_8lfKUm0zW8\/TxOeKtQrq0I\/AAAAAAAAF_o\/wg18BAbAeEM\/s720\/DSC06576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cindy got a mountain bike recently and I told her Sam and I would go biking in Angeles National Forest if she can get any weekends off (Cindy has a job in the medical field that requires odd scheduling). \u00a0I hope she finds a way to do it as I would love to mountain bike on these great trails&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe a month ago Sam and I planned to spend a Saturday in January hiking to a waterfall with Cindy. \u00a0A little over a week ago Sam was informed she&#8217;d have to go to China for work for a few weeks. \u00a0This waterfall turned out to be a decent one, so it&#8217;s a shame that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}