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

Over time, the settlers established towns of their own, especially near the mouth of the river where there was more arable land than the steep upper canyons.

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.

Check dams were constructed in upper canyons and the river itself was impounded in several artificial lakes.

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.

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.

Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir may be found in upper canyons.