Thread started by trickmilla at 07.7.09 - 6:20 pm

THE BIG PARADE LA

WHEN: JULY 18/19, 2009
WHAT: THE BIG PARADE
WHO: YOU - JOIN US FOR A DAY, AN HOUR, OR EVEN FIVE MINUTES!

The Big Parade is a two-day walk through Los Angeles that will start in downtown, at the famous Angel's Flight Stairway, and finish with six stairways leading up from Beachwood Canyon to the Hollywood Sign. The walk will cover approximately 40 miles and 135 stairways, and will include a camp-out at the mid-point, the famous Music Box Stairs - site of the Oscar-winning Laurel & Hardy film of the same name - in Silverlake.
A core group of five to eight walkers will be doing the entire event. But - as the name "Big Parade" implies - the true nature of the journey is community-based. In addition to passing dozens of landmarks, we will be joined by community members, both individuals and in groups, as we pass through the city's most diverse neighborhoods. The walk is broken into specific segments so that walkers of all ages and levels of fitness can join us at specific times (of course, anyone is welcome to meet us at any point along the way - and all are invited to join us at the end to celebrate the walk.)

Among the other features of the walk will be:
- A paddleboat traverse of Echo Park Lake.
- A "backcountry" bushwhack along a secret dirt road between Silverlake and Echo Park.
- A cross-country segment that runs through Griffith Park.
- Landmarks that are famous, not-so-famous, infamous, and just-plain-weird (over thirty of them, mapped and ready for viewing)
- A marching band.
- Visits with community groups and local organizations.



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bump juz because.



User1
07.8.09 - 3:07 pm

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cuz it's cool



Gav
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07.8.09 - 3:16 pm

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i still remember watching the news the day the angel's flight railcar crashed. the paramedic who was helping the old couple who died was just crying.



tortuga_veloce
07.8.09 - 3:26 pm

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Anyone else thinking of doing this? I had a chance to look the site over and this shit looks AWESOME!!! I want to do the whole route too. The camping spot is full, but I'm going to see if it's ok to stay at a friends house that's near by the camping spot. If he saids it's cool to have more peeps over for the night, I'll post up.





User1
07.9.09 - 11:06 am

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