Wiley Canyon Photos
Here are various pictures taken in Wiley Canyon. Some of them were taken at locations where you will probably never get to.
Start of road/trail south into Wiley Canyon
Hiking south on the trail
Looking north down an old oil road
North view
Higher up north view
Looking down and west at the bench area. Someone is sitting on the bench.
Higher view toward the west. You can see the trail to Towsley Canyon loop to the right in the middle of the picture and zig-zag up the mountain.
Looking west up the second west tributary in Wiley Canyon
Higher up view of previous picture
On an old oil road
Skull and part of the spine of some unfortunate animal
Poison Oak - always a hazard in the canyons
Coming down the Towsley/Wiley trail was this rattlesnake. He appeared to be sunning himself while blocking the lizard
Closer view. Was the lizard frozen in terror? He didn't move as I got closer. I finally had to encourage the snake to get off the trail and the lizard took off.
Alligator lizard. He seems to be sunning himself with his legs tucked to his side.
In the 1929 Hoot Gibson silent film "The Winged Horseman", stunt woman Lita Belle Wichart, who was doubling for co-star Ruth Elder, jumped out of an airplane with a parachute in a scene where the heroine is escaping from her kidnapper. Unfortunately, for some reason she failed to pull the ring and fell 3000 feet to her death landing in Wiley Canyon. She was considered the leading woman parachute jumper in the United States and was making her 140th jump. The pilot of the plane, Jim Granger, sensed something was wrong when her chute failed to open and dived under her in an attempt to catch her in the cockpit or on the wings of the plane. He was unsuccessful. (LA Times 1/25/1929)
No copies of the film are known to exist