{"id":415277,"date":"2025-11-30T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415277\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:09:25","slug":"risk-beauty-and-the-endless-allure-of-the-san-gabriel-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415277\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk, beauty and the endless allure of the San Gabriel Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In December 2020, a reader suggested I get in touch with a young Pasadena man named Edgar McGregor, who was approaching 500 straight days of picking up trash in local parks, including Eaton Canyon. I connected with McGregor by email but then got sidetracked by other things, as did he.<\/p>\n

McGregor, now 25, still is picking up trash, and he also picked up a climate science degree at San Jos\u00e9 State in 2023. He operates a weather forecasting service out of his home, with a focus on the foothill communities of the San Gabriel Mountains, and has a keen interest in Santa Ana winds. This brought him a sizable following<\/a> of people who paid close attention to his forecasts, particularly in January.<\/p>\n

In his home office, McGregor studied computerized weather data and saw the makings of a monster. He knew the Santa Ana windstorm bearing down on the Altadena area would be catastrophic, and after a fire sparked in Eaton Canyon, possibly from arcing utility lines, he posted a video imploring his followers to \u201cget out.\u201d His warning, which sent caravans of vehicles down from the foothills, has been credited with saving lives.<\/p>\n

\"Edgar <\/p>\n

Edgar McGregor collects trash surrounded by dry chaparral in the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale.<\/p>\n

(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I finally went out with McGregor on a trash pickup. We met at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, where he pulled plastic bags, bottles, cans, food wrappers and other rubbish out of thick, dry brush. He said the Irwindale location would offer us a sweeping view of the San Gabriel Mountains, which dramatically form the back wall of L.A. sprawl and serve as a reminder that along this towering creation of seismic sculpture, natural beauty and risk are inseparable.<\/p>\n

Part of that risk, McGregor explained, is that when high-pressure air to the north and northeast is drawn toward low-pressure air along the coast, it gets compressed as it\u2019s funneled and slung through canyons, it accelerates as it descends Southern California mountain ranges, and it becomes dangerously dry, threatening everything in its path.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I credit my ability to forecast Jan. 7 \u2026 with my trash pickups,\u201d McGregor told me, explaining that he had taken full notice of the distressed ecosystem at Eaton Canyon after two straight years of drought, which produced a heavy load of kindling.<\/p>\n

\"Edgar <\/p>\n

Edgar McGregor carries two buckets of trash he collected in the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale.<\/p>\n

(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew it would be catastrophic. \u2026 Even before I ran outside to look at the hillside behind my house ablaze, I knew it was over. It was totally over. The whole canyon was going to go up,\u201d McGregor said. \u201cSpending so much time in that park and learning its natural history, when debris flows happened, when wildfires happened, what caused wildfires to destroy homes in 1993, I knew \u2026 this was the start of a new era for Altadena, right then and there.\u201d<\/p>\n

From my front porch on a clear morning, the San Gabriels sometimes do not look real. It\u2019s as if a Hollywood crew worked through the night to assemble a movie set backdrop, with impossibly steep rock walls towering over the valley. In a matter of minutes, I can disappear into the mirage, trading traffic for tranquility.<\/p>\n

But gravity has not been kind to the San Gabriel range and its foothills, where majesty and mayhem have lived together through decades of deadly fires and floods. In 1934 the new year began with a 20-foot wall of mud and debris thundering down from fire-scarred slopes and devouring much of La Crescenta and Montrose, gutting 400 homes and killing 45 people. In 1968 and 1969 the same one-two punch of fire and floods hit Glendora, <\/a>wiping out 200 homes and killing 34. <\/p>\n

The perennial threat along these sharp slopes was meticulously explored in a 1988 New Yorker article by John McPhee.<\/a> He revisited the deadly 1978 La Crescenta mudslide, which picked up more than a dozen vehicles and parked them downstream while also destroying homes.<\/p>\n

\"A <\/p>\n

A bicyclist makes his way down a bike path against a backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains in Irwindale.<\/p>\n

(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cLos Angeles Against the Mountains,\u201d as the story was titled, had a clever opening sentence: \u201cIn Los Angeles versus the San Gabriel Mountains, it is not always clear which side is losing.\u201d The piece began with the travails of Robert and Jackie Genofile and their two teenagers, Kim and Scott, who were nearly buried alive in their La Crescenta home.<\/p>\n

Kim Genofile was 17 at the time of the storm. I wasn\u2019t sure I had the right person when I dug up a phone number for a woman living in Orange County, but Kim Flotron answered and said she was indeed the former Kim Genofile, and she\u2019d been thinking about the unfortunate souls by the thousands who lost everything in the Eaton fire.<\/p>\n

Flotron, retired from a career in medicine, spoke as if the 1978 ordeal was still fresh in her mind. She said she couldn\u2019t sleep the night of the disaster and went into her brother Scott\u2019s bedroom and looked through the window at the storm. Flotron remembers telling their mother, \u201cYou should see all the rain that\u2019s coming down.\u201d<\/p>\n

A series of debris basins protects neighborhoods in the San Gabriel foothills, catching storm runoff that can include mud, trees, rocks and boulders. The one above the Genofile house got clogged in the storm, and an avalanche of debris barreled down the hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can still hear it, to this day,\u201d Flotron said.<\/p>\n

Mud crashed into and plowed through the house, climbing the walls. Flotron said her father told everyone to jump onto the bed in the master bedroom, and she and her brother tried.<\/p>\n

\"A <\/p>\n

A water collection tower stands in a debris basin near Agua Canyon in Altadena.<\/p>\n

(Carlin Stiehl \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cBut our legs got trapped by a boulder, and we were stuck,\u201d Flotron said.<\/p>\n

The Genofiles dug their way to safety, and the teens suffered only minor cuts and scrapes. Flotron told me her father, a contractor, had built the house that was destroyed and the family members decided to rebuild in the same location, despite the nightmare they\u2019d survived.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Los Angeles versus the mountains, as McPhee put it, but there\u2019s also Mother Nature versus human nature, and home is home. As one Altadena fire survivor put it when I asked if he felt safe rebuilding in a place with such a storied history of shaking, baking and assorted other risks, he shrugged me off. Risk is everywhere, he said. And true enough, if one thing doesn\u2019t get you, it\u2019ll be another. Crime, accident, disease.<\/p>\n

Flotron said that in their new house, the bedrooms were placed upstairs, to make for sounder sleep.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just very strong-willed people and have a tendency to be more positive,\u201d Kim said of the decision to stay in La Crescenta. \u201cMy parents had this thing that, we have our lives, we\u2019re not broken up. We thought we lost two cats, but we found one on a surfboard in the reservoir and one in a cabinet.\u201d<\/p>\n

She does think, though, that there has been lingering post-traumatic stress disorder in her family, and that her late father was never quite the same after losing the house and later shutting his business. Then, in 2009, the Station fire roared through<\/a> the neighborhood, though the Genofiles were spared.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was frightening because it was like, what are we anticipating?\u201d Flotron said. \u201cIt was all right there. You could watch the sumac explode and you could feel the heat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her brother still lives in La Crescenta, Flotron told me.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever it rains,\u201d she said, \u201cwe seem to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seismologist Lucy Jones<\/a> and I were walking down to the Gabrielino trail from La Ca\u00f1ada one day, talking about the assorted threats that hang over us in Southern California, testing both our preparedness and our sanity. She used to live in the general vicinity of the Genofiles and was evacuated from her home there for three days during the Station fire, only to hope and pray the following year that a debris basin near her home, filled nearly to the brim during a storm, would hold out. It did.<\/p>\n

Before that, Jones had lived in the neighborhood where I live and said she was Richtered out of bed there in 1988<\/a> by the rude jolt of a 5.0 quake. After her adventures in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge, she and her husband, also a seismologist, wanted to be closer to their jobs at Caltech, so they began real estate shopping. Jones, working with the ultimate insider\u2019s advantage, said they gave one home a pass after observing that it sat on the Raymond fault scarp.<\/p>\n

\"Dr. <\/p>\n

Dr. Lucy Jones, a seismologist and geophysicist at Caltech.<\/p>\n

(Carlin Stiehl \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cI might have been willing to gamble, but that wasn\u2019t going to happen,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWe\u2019d never be able to invite a geologist to dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we descended a winding path toward the trail, Jones spotted something that interested her on the face of a steep wall of rock.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat looks like fault gouge,\u201d Jones said, examining some bleached, sandy material sandwiched by darker, more solid rock.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t seem particularly alarmed, even though we were looking at what might be an example of what Jones called ridgetop shattering, which can be associated with seismic activity. And we were in the vicinity of the Sierra Madre fault, which conspired in prehistoric time with the San Andreas fault to form the San Gabriel Mountains.<\/p>\n

Several million years ago, Jones said, there were no San Gabriel Mountains. The land was flat until a transverse kink in the San Andreas fault, which separates two great tectonic saucers \u2014 one sliding slowly to the southeast and one to the northwest \u2014 collected pressure that began pushing upward and forming the mountains. The San Gabriels still are climbing, and among the fastest-rising mountains in the world.<\/p>\n

\"Dr. <\/p>\n

Dr. Lucy Jones assesses whether a formation is a fault gouge while hiking the Gabrielino Trail in Altadena.<\/p>\n

(Carlin Stiehl \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

I often feel, when talking to Jones, that I\u2019m asking questions that might get me kicked out of class. But I tried another one on her:<\/p>\n

Why is this mountain range so steep?<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause earthquakes are pushing it up faster than erosion is bringing it down,\u201d Jones said, reminding me that the San Andreas is on the north side of the range and the Sierra Madre on the south side. \u201cEvery 5,000 years or so, the Sierra Madre fault moves again and pushes us up another 10 feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

As horrific as the Big One is sure to be, it\u2019s easy enough to push that out of our minds because the timeline is unknowable. The next destructive quake could be in 5,000 years, or 10,000, or it might visit us before you finish the next sentence. Nobody knows. And there is no earthquake season. <\/p>\n

But there are fire seasons, and in the evolving order of things that can go wrong, especially after what happened in January, L.A.\u2019s proximity to wildlands seems ever more unsettling.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at that hillside directly in front of us,\u201d Jones said, gazing across the canyon. \u201cThat burned in the Station fire. That\u2019s 16 years of regrowth, and it\u2019s still struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

In typical cycles, burned wildlands can take decades to recover. But they are struggling even in places not visited by fire, thanks to drought and other factors that have led to forest collapse.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re experiencing \u201ca higher fire risk because of climate change,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThe ecosystem is so stressed, because it\u2019s experiencing a different climate than it evolved to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Dr. <\/p>\n

Dr. Lucy Jones crosses the Arroyo Seco Creek while hiking the Gabrielino Trail in Altadena.<\/p>\n

(Carlin Stiehl \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

We reached the creek at the bottom of the trail and began winding toward the back side of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the edge of the Eaton fire\u2019s western boundary.<\/a> Along the way Jones pointed out the dynamics of change. In the sand along the creek and in boulders the size of dump trucks, she saw the map of historic reconfiguration.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at the size of the rocks, and they\u2019re rounded enough that they\u2019ve been bouncing around in the stream for a while,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen fire happens and we have stuff coming down, the green burns and the soil comes sloughing off in the rain.\u201d<\/p>\n

At one point Jones reached across the gurgling creek to hand me her trekking poles for balance, so I wouldn\u2019t take a spill on slippery rocks. As we approached the end of our hike she took me to a spot where, a few months ago, she identified a segment of the Sierra Madre fault.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes you can see it really clearly,\u201d Jones said, but rain had rearranged things, washing leaves and other materials down over the rocky ground.<\/p>\n

She glanced across the creek, working with the aid of a geologist\u2019s magic eyes, and spotted signs of another strand of the fault. She bent down to inspect some sandy material and said, \u201cLook at how it\u2019s all ground up in here against this very hard rock.\u201d<\/p>\n

If there were a big quake, Jones said, \u201cwe would expect these rocks will move about five meters up this way, and that\u2019s going to be running into the bridge.\u201d But in that scenario, the bridge, which crosses the creek at the back entrance to JPL, might already have been damaged from violent shaking.<\/p>\n

Jones told me \u2014 awfully casually, it seemed \u2014 that big earthquakes always cause fires, that wood-frame construction can compound losses, and that the extent of the disaster \u201cdepends on what winds are blowing when the earthquake happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

I told her I needed to know that she sleeps OK.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt\u2019s geologic time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones, who spoke fondly of \u201cplaying in the mountains\u201d with her grandchildren, left me with a few words of reassurance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not moving,\u201d Jones said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not convincing my son to raise the grandchildren somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Eaton and Palisades fires would not have been nearly as devastating without the Santa Ana winds that powered them, carrying embers great distances. Although there is no evidence at the moment that climate change has an impact on Santa Ana winds, which race over and along parts of the San Gabriel foothill corridor in the fall and early winter, there is evidence that climate change means elevated fire risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe frequency at which we\u2019re seeing autumns that are extremely dry is increasing,\u201d Edgar McGregor told me. That means that when we enter Santa Ana season without having had much rainfall to douse vegetation, we\u2019re primed for disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A <\/p>\n

A water collection tower stands in a debris basin near Agua Canyon in Altadena.<\/p>\n

(Carlin Stiehl \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

Another critical factor in the Eaton and Palisades fires was that the winters of 2023 and 2024 were unusually wet, producing vegetation that later became fuel in an unusually dry season. Daniel Swain and other climate scientists refer to these swings from drought to deluge as hydroclimate whiplash.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it rains, increasingly, it pours. That\u2019s the way this is playing out globally,\u201d said Swain, a researcher for the California Institute for Water Resources.<\/a><\/p>\n

And why is that happening?<\/p>\n

Because we\u2019re playing with matches, burning fossil fuels, sending up more greenhouse gases and cooking the planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure that some folks are aware of how dramatically warmer it has become in the last 30 years,\u201d Swain said. \u201cUnfortunately, we\u2019re on a trajectory for a lot more warming than we\u2019ve seen so far,\u201d and future warming will be exponential rather than linear.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obviously warmer, but why does that matter so much? Because of the atmospheric sponge effect,\u201d Swain said. \u201cAs the temperature of the air rises, the size of the figurative atmosphere expands, and its capacity to absorb water does as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sponge is capable of both absorbing and dumping increasing amounts of water. A study published<\/a> by Swain and other scientists reported that between 1980 and 2018 in California, human-caused climate change contributed to a doubling of the number of \u201cautumn days with extreme fire weather.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swain said there\u2019s some evidence of a shift in Santa Ana wind timing, with fewer winds in the fall and more in the winter. That\u2019s potentially a good thing, because the later they are, the greater the chance that rains have arrived.<\/p>\n

Jon Keeley,<\/a> a research ecologist, UCLA adjunct professor and former Altadena resident, doesn\u2019t buy the idea of a whiplash effect as an explanation for the January wildfires. He told me climate change is a bigger factor in the fires that hit Northern California\u2019s heavily wooded areas than in Southern California\u2019s chaparral terrains.<\/p>\n

In January, he said, the primary factors were that Santa Ana winds blew at about twice their usual speed, and the fires were triggered. The Palisades fire was a reignition of an earlier blaze allegedly set by an arsonist, and the Eaton fire might have been ignited by sparking power lines.<\/p>\n

Keeley said that once the fires got going, houses, rather than dry vegetation, were the fuel. More people means more power lines, more triggers and more development, and lowering the risk of fire requires a greater focus on all of those things.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot look at just climate change without \u2026 talking about population growth, and nobody is talking about population growth,\u201d Keeley said.<\/p>\n

Swain is in full agreement that climate change is only part of the story, and that there are lessons to be learned from January\u2019s twin catastrophes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could see much better fire outcomes in a higher fire-risk world if we do the right things,\u201d he said, in terms of preparation and prevention, and how and where we build.<\/p>\n

Swain mentioned Jones\u2019 decades of work to educate the public on earthquake risk and preparedness, along with her campaign to elevate building codes and retrofit vulnerable structures.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m almost in awe of the seismology folks who managed to convince people to prepare for something we\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d Swain said. \u201cI want to get there with wildfire hazards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many years ago I was out with a friend, kayaking over swells just beyond the jetty at the entrance to Marina del Rey. It was a warm, clear winter day, and as we headed back to shore, the snow-covered peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains spread out before us in the distance. In less than two hours you could go from swimming to skiing, or from having a dolphin slide under your kayak to having a bear dig through your trash can.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy enough to take this natural environment for granted, as many of us do. One of the things I admire about McGregor is that he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\"Meteorologist <\/p>\n

Meteorologist Edgar McGregor visits an area that burned the night before in the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale. McGregor worries that small fires such as this during Santa Ana winds once again could be devastating to residents in the area.<\/p>\n

(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

I told McGregor I\u2019d spoken to two PhDs about the fires and that one emphasized the need to better understand the urgency of climate change, while the other was focused on reducing fire risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to do both,\u201d McGregor said. \u201cI understand the importance of brush clearance, controlled burns and safer homes if you\u2019re going to build\u201d in the wildland-urban interface.<\/p>\n

But over the last 119 years, by his computations, average daily temperatures in Pasadena increased by an alarming seven degrees. <\/p>\n

McGregor \u2014 who lives at Pasadena\u2019s northeast boundary, a block from Altadena \u2014 began working for L.A. County as a meteorologist after the fire but emphasized that he was speaking as a private citizen. One who was alarmed last January when, in his home office, he saw that the coming Santa Ana winds would be of high velocity and long duration.<\/p>\n

Usually you get a high-velocity wind of short duration, he told me, or a low-velocity event of long duration. Santa Anas come in two flavors, he added, hot and cold, depending on their origin and characteristics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we get the cold flavor, that\u2019s when the winds dive over the mountains. They crash into the foothills below and they spread out. That\u2019s what was carrying the Eaton fire into Altadena,\u201d McGregor said.<\/p>\n

I asked if his family considered moving, even though the house was not damaged. He paused before saying his grandparents built the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been in the McGregor family, and it\u2019s not really an asset to me, it\u2019s a home. And you don\u2019t consider those things with your home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo your home is safe,\u201d I said, \u201cbut your house might not be.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he hadn\u2019t thought of it that way.<\/p>\n

At the Santa Fe Dam, McGregor filled buckets with trash, saving his harshest comments for decomposing plastic bags. He distinguished native plants from non-native and said we need to better understand that in advancing wildfires, some trees \u2014 oaks, for instance \u2014 can be beneficial rather than hazardous.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just that they have moisture in them and can eat embers for breakfast,\u201d he said. \u201cBut also that they slow down the Santa Ana windstorms.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGregor said he changed his bio from climate activist to community activist because \u201cthat\u2019s all-encompassing. I forecast weather when that\u2019s what my community needs. I pick up trash when that\u2019s what my community needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He could let himself get overwhelmed by the declining health of the planet, or the dunderheaded indifference at the highest levels. But he chooses not to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI protect myself with the knowledge that I\u2019m just an individual, and one that doesn\u2019t have that much power, and I don\u2019t let it get to me,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I came out here every day and I just got angry with the litterbugs \u2026 I can\u2019t think those thoughts, because I\u2019m out here to enjoy the natural world and bring myself peace of mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get out of the house, go somewhere, take responsibility for a local natural area, be an example that others can live by. Maybe that meets the needs of the element within me that wants to have a purpose in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The January fires, which raged at the intersection of the built and the natural environments, were not the first in L.A. and won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n

They were humbling reminders that we\u2019re temporary inhabitants of a place both blessed and cursed, tucked between ancient peaks and rising sea, with no greater calling than to be better stewards of our inheritance.<\/p>\n

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