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INSIDEVolume 74, Number 26
2 In Brief3 A new garden grows8 Celebrating achievements
10 Obits, Sheriff’s Log11 Babies at the zoo12 Playoffs continue
13 Wrestling wrap 18 Movie review, theater listings22 Grizzly Classifieds
Big Bear Lake (San Bernardino County) California
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By KATHERINE DAVIS-YOUNGReporter
More than 90 percent of long-distance hikers who attempt
to tackle the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail start at the Mexican
border, making their way north to the Canadian border. Almost
everyone who attempts the daunting journey over the Sierra
Nevada and Cascade ranges does so in spring and summer months.
What Shawn Forry and Justin Lichter are doing is unheard of.
Forry, 33 and Lichter, 34, are hiking the PCT from north to
south, and they’re doing it during the coldest months of the year.
They started at the Canadian border in late October and expect to
make it to the Mexican border around March 1. No other hikers
are known to have accomplished this before.
“There’s been a bunch of people calling us ‘the crazy ones,’”
Lichter said in an interview. He and Forry took a break to speak to
The Grizzly when they passed through Big Bear on Feb. 20.
When they started walking in Washington last autumn, they
Digging into Rathbun options
By KATHY PORTIEReporter
The Rathbun Corridor Sustainability Plan
is taking shape, but it’s not a final draft yet.
On Feb. 17, residents and other interested
parties gathered at Hofert Hall in Big Bear
Lake to review the latest round in the devel-
opment of the plan.
The Rathbun Corridor follows Rathbun
Creek from the San Bernardino National
Forest in Moonridge to the shores of Big
Bear Lake near Eagle Point Estates. The
creek runs parallel to Moonridge Road south
of Big Bear Boulevard before meandering
through the Bear Mountain Golf Course
property and turning eastward toward Sand
Canyon. Plans are in the preliminary stages
to construct and develop a multi-use trail
along the creek. Another aspect of the proj-
ect includes improvements to the Moonridge
Road business district between Elm Street
and Clubview Drive, north of the golf course.
The plan was divided into three sections
for review. The first section extends from
the shoreline of Big Bear Lake and under
Big Bear Boulevard along with the northern
portion of the Rathbun Creek trail near the
Trout Pond. The second section focused
on the Moonridge Road portion of the plan
along with the trail on Sonoma Drive, across
Moonridge Road and alongside the golf
course. The third section focuses primarily
on connection to Sand Canyon, the Sand
Canyon area and trail access to the national
forest.
The first section mostly goes through
undeveloped property behind Interlaken
Center in the city of Big Bear Lake until it
reaches Big Bear Boulevard. The culvert at
Rathbun Creek does not meet Caltrans’ 100-
year flood requirements, and rebuilding the
culvert to meet those specs would enable the
city to create a bike-pedestrian path under
the road, said Jay Renkens of MIG Inc.
Steve Lang, MIG landscape architect,
said there is the opportunity to create
habitat at that entry point into the lower
Residents review the myriad plans
Installing one or two roundabouts on Moonridge Road is one of many suggestions being considered for the Rathbun Corridor project.
See RATHBUN Page 4
Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail like no one before
See PCT Page 9
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