I learned two things on this walk that started with a serenade of roosters guarding the forlorn cabin at the mouth of Rubio canyon. First, when someone has gone through the trouble of posting a ‘Danger’ sign at the beginning of a trail, go through the trouble of reading it, before forging ahead. Second, the Gooseberry motorway, carved in 1923, out of the rugged, steep southern foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, between Rubio and Eaton canyons, to access and maintain the power lines, is abandoned, a dead end, which was stated in plain english on the sign I hadn’t read until I returned from butting into a dead end.

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