San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[griffi94]

1. Beautiful photo

I'll be in LA in two weeks. I hope the snowcaps are still there.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thanks so much, dear griffi94!

I hate to discourage you, but it usually doesn't last long, esp. when the temperatures are normal, which they are now.

But we don't know what the weather will bring! If there's more cold rain, then there will be snow on the mountains!

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

[FalloutShelter]

2. Stunning shot Peggy!

Happy New Year!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Thanks so much, my dear FalloutShelter!

Happy New Year to you too!

[StarryNite]

5. Wow!

That is a stunning panorama!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Thanks so much, my dear StarryNight!

I'm glad you like it!

[Deuxcents]

7. When I think of LA,

I think of sun, palm trees, roller bladers...never snow capped mountains. A beautiful picture.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Thanks for your lovely remarks, my dear Deuxcents!

All of those elements exist here, year round.......and the snow comes when we have cold rainy weather in the winter.

Many times I've been in this park taking photos of the snowy mountains, and I've seen photographers from the LA Times doing the same! And then the photos show up in the paper! It's wonderful.

[CurtEastPoint]

8. CP, this is Chamber of Commerce quality! Well done!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Wow, my dear Curt! That's quite a compliment! Thank you so much. ♥

[Walleye]

11. Really good shot! I lived in SoCal for seven years maybe saw those mountains once or twice

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Thanks so much, my dear Walleye!

Yeah, I hear that. It is an effort to get there (10 miles to drive and a pretty stiff walk once you get to the site). But it's worth it!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

12. Did you go to Kenny Hahn Park?

I don't know why I haven't been there yet this week. What is my problem? LOL! Maybe I can get there tomorrow or Tuesday. Beautiful shot!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. I did go to the Kenny Hahn Park, my dear Grumpy!

It's a fair trek from my house, but when the snow looks like this, it's worth it.

I should have called you! They had the part where you walk out to see the view all roped off with yellow hazard tape! But I was damned if I was going to let it stop me. I didn't come all that way to not get any photos. A few other scofflaws were out there too.

I could see where the rain had partially washed away the path, but it's drying out now.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

20. Yikes!

Sorry to hear that they were worried about slides. Don't forget that was the site of the Baldwin Hills Dam Disaster. It sits right on top of the Newport Inglewood Fault. The big flat meadow is where the reservoir was.

We'll get there together someday. I know a lot of people who have been there this week. Fortunately, I don't think the snow is going away very soon. I just have to coordinate my schedule with my lovely wife, who also wants to go.

Let's go see the hummingbird garden sometime.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Sounds like a great idea! Let me know.

Ah, I"d forgotten about the dam disaster. That was before we lived here, I think.

[Skittles]

13. wow

great picture

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Thanks so much, my dear Skittles!

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

15. Wow! That's a beauty!

Great job!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Thanks so much, my dear IrishAfricanAmerican!

I was determined to come home with something good! I'm not the best person walking, but I persisted and got there.

[niyad]

19. That is just beautiful. Magical.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Thank you, my dear niyad! There is magic there. ♥

[SleeplessinSoCal]

21. Our view from the OC Fairgrounds.

..of the San Bernardino Mountains just now...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. That is just lovely, my dear SleeplessinSoCal! The light on the mountains is perfect. ♥

[SleeplessinSoCal]

29. my old samsung galaxy may not capture the look exactly..

But after editing, I get pretty close. We have the purple mountains majesty going on down here.

There have been spectacular rainbows lately. But my effort to catch them on camera truly pale...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

35. That is wonderful and worthy of its own thread! Thank you for sharing it. ♥

[SleeplessinSoCal]

45. Why, thank you CP!

I ran out the door and across the street as soon as I saw yours just to see if the mountains were visible today.

Thank you for rousing me out of my lethargy.

[orleans]

43. just beautiful! nt

[calimary]

25. Ahhh, the old home town...

Los Angeles is a really beautiful city, assuming you can find a day where the air is fairly clear.

[MLAA]

26. Beautiful.

I didn’t realize you took this gorgeous shot!!!!

[George II]

27. Great photograph. One of the best things about the LA area is that everywhere you look you're....

...pretty much surrounded by mountains.

Living on the east coast, we don't get views like that.

I remember the first time I went to Santa Anita years ago, it was a bright sunny day. I walked inside and looked out at the track from inside the grandstand. I thought, "when the hell did it get cloudy?" Then I went outside - those weren't clouds, those were the dark mountains in the distance!

This wasn't exactly the view (this day was a little overcast), but you can get the idea:

[SCantiGOP]

28. A friend and I went to USC

No, not that one, we went to U of South Carolina.
He got a job in Los Angeles after college. He said it was about the third week that he had a shock on the drive to work - there were mountains to the East! He had not seen them before because of smog and didn’t even realize they were close enough to be seen.
That is a beautiful clear picture.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

31. That sounds like SoCal exactly.

There are days when the mountains totally vanish behind smog, fog, marine layer, or even clouds.

FYI, "A marine layer can contain fog, which is visible, low-lying condensed air containing water drops or ice crystals—essentially, a cloud close to the ground."

[Codifer]

40. Brings back a memory.

In the late sixties I was attending UC Riverside. There was a physical anthropology professor who had recently been added to the faculty. He actually arrived early to teach summer session so it was not until the Santa Ana winds blew in November that he realized that there was a big-ass mountain right behind the campus.

As I recall, the sky then was a constant shade of murky red and filled with police helicopters.

Surreal.

[SCantiGOP]

46. The air in LA is much cleaner now

I will have trouble typing this next part, but.................. part of the credit is due to Tricky Dick endorsing and signing the legislation to create the EPA.

Hard to grasp the fact that Nixon, Goldwater and Reagan wouldn't be welcome in today's GOP.

[Codifer]

47. Is hard.

In that same series of documents was the Antiquities Act.... provided me with employment for a few decades.

Reagan is still a saint according to some. (Ya seen one redwood, ya seen 'em all)

Eisenhower would be a deemed a socialist to be hounded down and hung by today's GQP.

[SCantiGOP]

48. Absolutely

Ike would be right in the middle of the political spectrum for the Democratic Party.
Trump would find some way to denigrate him, I'm sure. "I like people who didn't take several years to win World War Two. Me and my generals would have won it in three weeks."

[BobTheSubgenius]

30. Beautiful vista!

It's gotten so that it's a bit weird to see a picture of California when it's not on fire.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

32. We've had a surprising amount of rain recently.

It didn't surprise me to read about the Colorado fires from the drought there. Typically, the more extreme here the opposite extreme seems to happen elsewhere.

[SCantiGOP]

33. My daughter lives near Denver

She says there’s been a lot of snow in the mountains, but this week was the first snow they’ve gotten in the Front Range and plains.

[BobTheSubgenius]

51. That seems odd to me, considering the altitude.

[SCantiGOP]

52. extremely odd

They just broke a record for the number of days Colorado Springs went without a significant snow. They usually get some in September, but this year it went something like 240 straight days with no snow. I think they had about 1/4" in mid-December, which also set a record for the latest measurable snow.
Except for Hawaii, which doesn't really count in this, Colorado is the only US State that has no rivers that flow into it. So it is either snow or drought.

[BobTheSubgenius]

55. I had no clue whatever about that river thing!

Man, talk about "live and learn!!" How odd - no rivers coming off all those mountains!

[SCantiGOP]

56. A lot of rivers

It’s just that they all flow out of the state. Because of its elevation, there are no rivers that flow into the state.

[BobTheSubgenius]

49. Not wishing any kind of ill at all on CO, but I'm happy to see...

...Californians getting a break.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

50. Me too.

Thanks for your empathy and support. It means a lot.

[BobTheSubgenius]

53. This year, we (SW BC) had floods.

Farms under feet of water, the road over the mountain heading to upisland was partially washed away, and parts that remained were uncertain, Highway 3 into the Okanagan Valley was completely closed, then open only to commercial trucks, because there were giant shortages everywhere.....etc. It was like pictures from 1980s Russia.


I've been seeing ads lately from the Dairy Association thanking folks for amazing support, both in material and empathy. People were even going to round up whatever farm animals they could find and take them to board at places on higher ground.

Those efforts from total strangers, and the deep gratitude with which they were received, really choked me up.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

54. This is the sort of support and help I would've thought was more common.

During pandemics and crises of any kind. It's the sort of behavior that I'd hoped would rise above the din of politics.

Friends visiting from Seattle last month reported on the BC onslaught. They came here fir sun, and of course it rained.

Take care.

[BigmanPigman]

34. No wonder the roads going up there are packed with visitors.

[sdfernando]

36. Great pic!

You can thank CA auto emission standards. Back in the 70s and 80s the smog was so bad .you would never be able to get a pic like that.

[ailsagirl]

39. That's the truth

Clear as a bell 😊

[Hekate]

37. That is absolutely gorgeous. I have never seen the San Gabriels like that...

I lived in Cucamonga in 1965-68 while first in college, just below Mount Baldy, and my favorite view was when it was covered with snow. (Well, the rest of the year it was hard to see at all due to the smog.) Baldy just shone with purity in the winter, and in the moonlight it was breathtaking.

Thank you for this gorgeous photo, Peggy! Happy new year to you.

[ailsagirl]

38. Splendid!! All that beautiful snow...

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Thanks for sharing, CaliforniaPeggy!!

[AllaN01Bear]

41. i lived in glendora from 1957 to late 1984. ohm myyy ,

nice and clear.

[Heartstrings]

42. I miss the beautiful blue skies of Cali!

Beautiful capture!

[orleans]

44. beautiful picture nt