
Garen Yegparian
BY GAREN YEGPARIAN
It’s always easy to tell when September rolls around in the greater Los Angeles Armenian community. How? A massive pileup of events ends up being available for people to participate in.
The weekend right after Labor Day is the one we’ll look at.
The Armenian Hikers Association had it annual big camping trip, this time to Kings Canyon. I had to miss it because of all the other things going on, but some 65 people participated. There are some great pictures, too, that you can see on AHA’s Facebook page. One of the commitments I had, ironically, was a serious hike, since I’m training for AHA’s planned c2c (Cactus to Clouds) trip planned for mid-October. Some rate this hike among the five toughest in North America.
The most important obstacle to camping was the performance of “I Am Aliveâ€