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Lowelifes Respectable Citizens’ Club

Lowelifes RCC is a trail building organization based in Southern California’s Angeles National Forest.

Beyond trail restoration and maintenance, we work to foster, conservation, sustainability, & community in Los Angeles County.

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Condor Peak Trail is 99% complete.

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The saga of this boulder near the top of Kenyon De

The saga of this boulder near the top of Kenyon Devore has come to an end. After a couple daunting days working on this rock, we decided to size up our shims and wedges we are using to split the rock up. We also picked up a couple more 60 volt batteries so we can get more done each time. There’s a lot of similar projects ahead on Kenyon Devore so this investment (thank you supporters🥰) will be a key piece of the project. Although we are considering some better tools in the future, this upgrade was cheap comparatively and very effective.

Today we did something a little different… We te

Today we did something a little different… We teamed up with our friend @estephers9 who now works in Recreation on LA Gateway where we operate out of as well. She works for our Forest Service volunteer liaison, Mike, who also came out and joined the fun today. @stepho_ and @gotukus helped them put in the new benches at the Mt Lowe Trail Camp. @estephers9 is a BOSS and likes to get stuff done! She’s making quick work of an old list of improvements waiting to be completed. Lowelifes is happy to support the Districts work at these special places in the Angeles that we spend a lot of time at. #bosslady

Filter the water, sharpen the tools, do the work.

Filter the water, sharpen the tools, do the work. It’s that simple. A look at the process with time lapse footage courtesy of @name_and_number from this past winters assault on the Fox Mountain section of the Condor project. Getting it done!

Something is in the works to celebrate this monumental project and the people who made it happen…

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there tha

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there that would shuttle your trail crew buds hours away so we can break up rocks impeding our two-wheeled travel on trails deep in the forest. The Condor project was possible ALSO because of the dads.

This was a monumental day on the project. It was the day we knew we could get it done for sure!

Video by @vernor

We spent another successful weekend working Gabrie

We spent another successful weekend working Gabrielino in the Bobcat Fire Closure. We moved camp to Valley Forge and started working the stretch to Kenyon Devore. This section needs lots of work and was heavily impacted by the fire. Lots of poodle dog, scoured drainages, heavy erosion, and non-native grasses growing in. The section is looking a lot better but it’s going to take a couple more months to get it nice.

We had our best taco party to date. OG trail steward @radlikeray came with the chips, salsa, and margaritas and we brought the tacos. This time we weren’t messing around! Yes, the margaritas had ice and salt on the rim and of course we had queso Oaxaca to turn it up an extra level. Great times with a great crew!!

Pics 2,4,5, & 10 by our favorite, @stepho_ 💚

We teamed up with our friends over at @krvmba and

We teamed up with our friends over at @krvmba and spent the long weekend camping in the Sequoia NF working on Cannell Meadow Trail. Saturday we camped near Mosquito Flat and worked the upper section from Sherman Pass (9,200 ft) to the climb above Big Meadow. Then on Sunday we moved camp to Big Meadow and split the crew into two teams. One crew worked on clean up on the Deadwood to Big Meadow descent and the other crew worked on removing trees below Big Meadow to 1/3 mile down the descent into Cannell Meadow. What a fun weekend working trails and riding bikes! Big thanks to Brent for setting up a killer weekend. Now it’s time to get ready for our campout this coming weekend repairing trails along the West Fork San Gabriel from Bobcat Fire damage.

If you missed the LA Invitational this past weeken

If you missed the LA Invitational this past weekend, you have a lot to look forward to next year! The tamales from @janyanet and @14nnairb were the highlight of the weekend for many of us volunteers out on the course. All @gotukus and @the__hoff__ could think about all day doing ride support was getting back in time for tamales. They were so good we are going to hit up Janet and Brian for tamales at our next campout on June 4th-5th. Last but certainly not least, thank you @itsmeseant @itsnotabikeshop for the fun weekend and raising a bunch of money that will go directly back into the trails in the Angeles National Forest! Thank you Sean!

We hosted another successful West Fork Adult Day C

We hosted another successful West Fork Adult Day Care™️ session working trails in the Bobcat burn last weekend. The crew put in two long days back to back! So, we had bottomless tacos for the volunteers Saturday night to keep us sharp for Sunday.

After two long days, Gabrielino - West Fork to Kenyon Devore is in great shape across the entire length. We are starting to push up Kenyon Devore with tread repairs and the saw work is about 3/4 of a mile up. We are dedicated to getting this area ready for recreation when the Closure Order is lifted in the future.

Oh, and by the way, the San Bernardino larkspur (pic 7) is going bonkers along the West Fork!

This past weekend @gotukus took some of our most d

This past weekend @gotukus took some of our most dedicated crew members for a field trip to @sequoianationalforest for a chainsaw certification course. The pandemic complicated matters for a chainsaw class to happen on the Angeles National Forest for a few years… We had a rare opportunity to go off-Forest for the class.

@gotukus spends time working trails in Sequoia with his friend Brent of @krvmba. He knew of a class coming up and put us in contact with the chainsaw instructor. He luckily had room for a few of us in the class so special thanks to Brent!!

Travis and Tom became new A sawyers and Eric and Carson went for their B sawyer certification and passed! Matt and Brent supported their crews and found the time to do a table project out of a 400+ year old Jeffery pine that was killed in the French Fire. What a weekend!

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