Best Hikes Los Angeles by Allen Riedel & Monique Riedel

Author:Allen Riedel & Monique Riedel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Falcon Guides
Published: 2022-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) winds up toward Mount Hawkins. Photo by Allen Riedel.

it isn’t severely steep, there is enough of a gain to make this a strenuous hike. Some remnants of the 2002 Curve Fire will be visible on the higher reaches of the trail, and at 3.75 miles, the summit of Mount Hawkins sits 200 feet overhead as the trail passes it by.

At 4 miles, the trail gains the crest and hikers must veer sharply right to take the use trail to the top of Mount Hawkins. The trail gains a short 100 feet to the summit, and the views are decidedly amazing. There is a view of Mount Baldy that is straight on, and the high desert can be seen below as well as the other high peaks in this section of the national forest.

LITTLE JIMMY SWINNERTON

Little Jimmy Swinnerton (1875–1974), known by the names Little Jimmy, Swinny, and Swin, was a US cartoonist who was one of the first to develop newspaper cartoon strips. By some accounts, he was the first. His publication of Little Bears and Tykes in the San Francisco Examiner on June 1, 1892, predates the work of Richard F. Outcault, the man credited with the invention of the comic strip, by 2 years.

The illustrations he created used word bubbles, distinct panels, and recurring main characters. His work made use of animals, and he is credited with creating the first humorous anthropomorphic animal cartoon character, Mr. Jack, after relocating to New York and writing for Hearst’s New York Journal American.

In 1904 Swinnerton created Little Jimmy, the comic for which he is most remembered. The character of Jimmy was a stereotypical young boy with a penchant for troublemaking. Little Jimmy earned his fair share of punishment by getting caught up in all sorts of shenanigans and forgetting the important things he needed to do. Little Jimmy appeared in nationwide daily syndication until the 1930s. Swinnerton continued to write a Sunday strip until he retired in 1958, when he suffered an accident which injured his hand.

Ironically, Swinnerton was told he had weeks to live when he contracted tuberculosis in 1906. He then moved West, alternating residences between Arizona and California, for the rest of his life. He disliked the heat of the desert summers and spent some time high in the San Gabriel Mountains at what is now known as Little Jimmy Trail Camp. It is reported that he carved a Little Jimmy character onto a tree there and delighted visitors with personalized drawings of Little Jimmy, who by that time was well known to newspaper readers across the country.

Swinnerton outlived his doctor and the prognosis he received, surviving in Palm Springs to the ripe old age of 98.

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