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Tag: Los Angeles River

Switzer Falls
Tamara LangFebruary 15, 2016February 15, 2016CaliforniaLeave a comment

Midday Moonlight: Arroyo Seco at Switzer-land

I started this post to the background noise of a washing machine as it cleansed our clothing from the dirt of the past week. The last four days of the LA River Trek come as a swirl of mountains and vistas and gentle creeks, threatening to pour away, and I need to capture these memories […]

LA River Trek Day 3
Tamara LangFebruary 7, 2016February 7, 2016California1 Comment

LA River Trek Day 3: Griffith Park to Canoga Park

After almost 60 miles of cycling, Glenn and I have finally made it to the official start of the Los Angeles River! Today was our third day, in which we biked from Griffith Park to the junction of Bell Creek and Calabasas Creek in Canoga Park, and it took us through the Valley and out […]

LA River Trek Day 2
Tamara LangFebruary 6, 2016February 15, 2016California3 Comments

LA River Trek Day 2: Frogtown and Griffith Park

A surprising thing happened when we woke up in Frogtown this morning: we found ourselves beside a river. Not the river we had followed yesterday, which awed me with its oddity and imagined space, but an honest river, with trees and rapids and ducks. The oddest thing of all was that this was the same […]

LA River Trek Day 1
Tamara LangFebruary 6, 2016February 6, 2016California5 Comments

LA River Trek Day 1: Long Beach to Elysian

Route: Long Beach to Elysian Park Distance: 32 Miles

LA River Bike Trail Sign
Tamara LangFebruary 2, 2016February 2, 2016CaliforniaLeave a comment

Chapters of the LA River Trek

In just a matter of days, Glenn and I will stand atop our bikes beside the calm stretch of water where the Los Angeles River meets the ocean, about to start the LA River Trek. On our left, the black hull of the Queen Mary will censor the sky. Lorikeets from the Aquarium of the […]

Los Angeles from Elysian
Tamara LangJanuary 22, 2016January 22, 2016California

The Los Angeles River, from Steelhead to Stickleback

In a land of dusty chaparral baking beneath the ubiquitous California sun, the Los Angeles River in history was a beacon of life, forming a corridor of aquatic habitat from the Simi Hills and San Gabriel Mountains all the way to coastal estuaries. Each phase of the river molded a home for new groups of fish, their […]

Sunset made of lighters
Tamara LangJanuary 16, 2016California2 Comments

After the LA River: The Journey of a Plastic Bag

Growing up near the beach in Long Beach, CA, my first experience of the effect of rivers on the ocean came from my feet. Whenever I waded out into Long Beach’s pocket of beach down-current from the Los Angeles River, the precautionary shuffle of my feet on the ocean bottom usually surprised, not stingrays, but […]

Tamara LangJanuary 9, 2016January 9, 2016LA River TrekLeave a comment

Flood for Thought: The Los Angeles River

“I couldn’t even see the lane dividers on the freeway,” my sister told me, still shivering, as she dripped rainwater onto the living room floor on Wednesday night. She had just come in from the densest moments of this week’s El Nino storm, the worst of the season, which had dumped 2.5 inches of rain […]

Tamara LangDecember 3, 2015December 16, 2015CaliforniaLeave a comment

The Los Angeles River: Where the Microscope Ends

It’s amazing how quickly a place can rise around you and absorb you. Since I last wrote, my world has grown taller, brick by brick, from the vast flatness of Los Angeles as seen from the airplane window to a world of streets and parking lots and palm trees that waft in artificial altitude. I […]

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