In 1900, fire in the upper canyon left charred snags still visible along the natural area's Center and Big Fir trails.

I met up with Neesha and Ahriman at the passageway into the upper canyon.

Records show that the creek carried water year-round, fed by springs in the upper canyon.

The late 60s brought Linkletter Schwartz developing several hundred more properties in the upper canyon, still single-family dwellings but on smaller filled lots.

The creek's upper canyon was the site of some of the heaviest gold mining activity in the San Gabriels during the mid-19th century.

The community is named for its location in the upper canyon of San Leandro Creek along the eastern slope of the Berkeley Hills.

But the upper canyon was the home for both vorpals and kalirams, and I never felt totally safe relying just on internal defenses against either.

The following day, Finn Mahone pushed his own herd of cattle through the upper canyon of the Laird.

He wanted to reach the swamp lake and disappear into the forests south of it before the fiery explosion ripped through the upper canyon.

Where the upper canyon was too steep, switchbacks were cut so that the grade seldom exceeded 6 percent, except the final mile to Pinecrest.