Eaton fire damage accounting is still in progress. Since the beginning of January, he has burned more than 14,000 acres, destroyed thousands of houses and businesses in Altadena and, Friday, killed 16 people.
Now that the fire is 65%contained, we can also start examining damage and trail closings in the surrounding mountains. The fire would have started Eaton CanyonA beloved hiking area, before spreading east and west in the National Forest of Angeles.
More than two dozen trails, including many popular and interconnected day hikes, also seem to have burned. Many of them were favorites among the inhabitants who could walk at a short distance from their houses in Altadena to the beginning. Last week, I visited Eaton Canyon and observed La Manzanita Noircie and other Chaparral. Even if the Eaton Canyon Nature Center has burnedOaks and sycomores around him seem to have survived, some have only sang fire.
The Rubio Canyon path was burned in the fire Eaton.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
To better understand where you can go on a responsibility in a responsible manner (and what areas you should avoid), I built the list below. To set up a better image of the damage, I consulted the Caltopo cartography tool, referencing to reference its cards and fire fingerprints with local hiking trails to determine the routes in the burning area.
That said, it is not because a path is in the burning area that it was destroyed. We will learn more about the specific conditions of each path in the coming months. The trails burned in forest fires often remain closed for several months to allow the forest to recover and the maintenance teams of the trails to repair the routes and the infrastructure.
Keep in mind that hiking (and any other activity) is temporarily prohibited in the Angeles National Forest until Friday, even off the burned trails listed below. Officials said this measure to temporarily close the forest was necessary because the risk of fire is “critical», The highest level of danger in the graduated scale used by the US Forest Service.
The 700,000 acres area should reopen at midnight on Saturday unless the managers extend the closure. The trails below will probably remain closed even when the National Forest of Angeles remains open.
Burned trails in the fire Eaton
Part of the Eaton Canyon trail after Eaton's fire.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
Cactus burned along the Eaton Canyon trail.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
- Trail Middle Sam Merrill Northeast in Muir Peak Road: This trail is also called on certain cards under the name of Trail Upper Sam Merrill. There is another path north-east of this road that some cards call the upper path of Sam Merrill.
- One Man & Mule Trail (or Muir Peak Road), including Inspiration And Muir peak
- Mt. Lowe Railway Trail has Mt. Lowe Roadincluding Echo Mountain: The first 1.4 Miles from the Start of the Rubio Canyon trail is sometimes called Old Echo Mountain Trail.
- Mt. Lowe East Trail: Sometimes called on cards like the upper path of Sam Merrill, the first 0.8 mile of this path seems to have burned. The rest of the path, whether you took 0.6 mile at Mont Lowe, or you would continue the North East to about a mile until Markham SaddleNear the start of the Pic de San Gabriel trail, seems to be outside the burning area. (Mt. Lowe himself can have burned. He is on the edge of the northern fire perimeter.)
Eaton Canyon, as shown in the start of the Saddle Eaton path in 2021.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
- Mt. Lowe West Trail: The first two thirds of a mile of this path seem to have burned while the last half-mile seems to fall in front of the perimeter of the fire.
- Sunset Ridge Trail: The first 1,000 feet of this path are in the burning area. The next 0.8 mile is not, but the last mile seems to have burned.
- Dawn Mine Trail: Apart from the first 1,000 feet following the Sunset Ridge Trail, the majority of this trail did not burn. A mile after your departure from the start of the Sunset Ridge path, there is a little Section, about 450 feet, which burned. The area around Dawn Mine does not seem to have burned.
- Millard Canyon Falls Trail: from the parking lot, the first half-one in the way burned. The area around Millard Canyon Falls does not seem to have burned.
- Millard Canyon lower trail: Also called Millard Canyon Crest Trail, just over half of this short path of the Millard Canyon car park in the southwest in a residential area in Altadena seems to have burned.
- Tom Sloane Trail At the saddle: the first mile towards the west to the saddle Tom Sloane is burned. The rest of 0.8 mile to the saddle is not burned.
- Trail Chaney
- Mt. Lowe Highway to Mt. Lowe Trail Camp: the majority of this five -thousand trail is burned, including the Mt. Lowe Trail Camp.
