Autumn Colors--and Graffiti--on the Castillo del Lago-Wolf's Lair Trail
Exactly nine months have passed since I posted "Lost (Mulholland) Highway: The Trail from the Madonna House to Wolf's Lair." http://underthehollywoodsign.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/lost-mulholland-highway-the-trail-from-the-madonna-house-to-wolfs-lair/ Hiking the trail today, I was struck by the seasonal difference: some of the green foliage in last year's pictures is now brown and rust, giving the trail a distinctly autumnal appearance that to my mind is as beautiful.
What isn't beautiful is the graffiti that mars the trail in places, most disturbingly on "Face Rock." Apparently someone thought the rock needed a more permanent face than the one that passing hikers fashion daily from leaves, stones, flowers and branches. So he spray-painted one on it.
This happened a while ago, and though it's not the first incident of tagging on the trail, it certainly followed my previous post. In the intervening months, I've wondered if, by writing about the rock, I may have indirectly caused it to be defaced. If so, I'm deeply sorry--but somehow I doubt the tagger in question read this blog. Whoever he is, I wish he hadn't done it.