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Chino Hills State Park closes to bicyclists and equestrians alike after 
a storm.  The nature of our soil (primarily decomposed granite) results 
in a moonscape appearance if trail use by horses is allowed, most 
unpleasant--and of course nothin' but ruts if the bikers get in there.

Anybody remember the first Caspers Park ride, in the rain?  And how 
ticked park mgmt was afterwards?

As little rain as we get it's no big deal to switch to another place 
when it's rainy.  Of course in an El Nino year like this one, it's more 
challenging--in SoCal where I live, at 2000 ft, we've gotten around 6" 
of rain in 3 days, most of it last night.  But the ground drains so 
quickly we won't have a standing water problem if there is 24 hrs 
without more rain.

In Norco's sandy riverbed, the parkland is usuable immediately after or 
during a rainstorm--just DON'T cross the river unless you like 
quicksand, after the first good rains of the year!

Lynne


On Oct 20, 2004, at 5:31 PM, Michael Maul wrote:

> The California park management(at least Northern CA/Bay area) is very 
> careful about any sort of rain.
>
> They shut down the trails pretty quickly for an amount of rain that TX 
> would not even notice.  The annual rainfall in San Jose is about 15 
> inches per year. San Diego is about 10 inches per year.
>
> In Tx - I've seen 8 inches of rain in two days and not considered that 
> a 100 year flood.
>
> Alvin, TX holds the US record for single day and w/e rainfall of 29 
> inches and 43 inches respectively.  This was a result of a tropical 
> storm of course.
>
> Mike


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