Our 250th Site!! - 4/13/2014

Not only is today a very special birthday in our family (Happy Birthday Daddy!), but today we hit a huge milestone in our adventures... the 250th site!!

We were heading home after attending a lovely opera sampler on the campus of CSUN and decided to hit Beale's Cut and Stagecoach Pass (CHL 1006).

 Sadly only the plinth remains here and we did discover later that we could actually get much closer to the actual cut (so we will have to venture back another time when we are dressed more appropriately for adventure).

I will let the state of California explain to you why this is such a cool site:
"Beale's Cut is the only physical and cultural feature of its kind in the entire Los Angeles Basin. At the time of its construction in 1862, the actual creation and maintenance of the Cut was considered a significant technological and physical feat consisting of breaching the former impassable geographic barrier of the San Gabriel and Santa Susana Mountain ranges. General Edward F. Beale is attributed with the construction of a toll road across the mountains. Beale's Cut was also used as a favorite film-making location by pioneer film maker, David Wark Griffith, and others."
When we return here we will post more photos of the actual site.