TDW 1851 - How To Get Top of Hollywood Sign
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here
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meandering down or should I say up
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Canyon Drive at a very very slight
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elevation about a mile or so we will be
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starting today's endeavor just a little
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bit of a warm up if you will something I
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have wanted to do not only since I moved
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here but for a very look at this
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lieutenant Columbo it's my second
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channel daily watch Channel it's the
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daily whoo my hydration supplies for the
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day is this Gatorade and a water it's
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not too terribly hot slightly overcast
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out here in fact you can see some clouds
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formulated around that iconic sign I'm
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going to find you I'm sure as the day
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progresses it will warm up considerably
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and that cloud formation will fade away
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that's that's pretty cool right I've
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been to the general vicinity before I
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feasted my eyes upon it from the ledge
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at the observatory and other little
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trails here and there and yonder and far
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but never gotten really really close and
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I've never stood above it you can stand
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above the side and that's what I want to
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do some call it a bucket list item I
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just call it something I've was that no
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vice here that
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the sidewalk is ending and now it's all
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dirt as a very strange noise coming from
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whatever that creature was we don't want
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to get locked in here after sunset with
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it
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that's probably why these signs are here
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warning us of the beast
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ooh there is a parking lot here located
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at two 927 Canyon Drive if you so choose
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to do this hike you can drive here and
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park your car or you can walk it as I
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did and there's the restroom while a
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porta potti
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I want to use that before trouncing up
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the mountain I have already broken quite
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a sweat this is the starting point if
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you will if you're following a log at
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home with the coordinates this is where
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it begins I love LA that's a real song
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and keep in mind honor this guy's wishes
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do not smoke out here and do not throw a
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half lit cigarette but in this dry area
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oh there's another parking lot there so
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there's two of them one a little closer
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to the trailhead and the other
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it's about a hundred yards down that way
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on the left sign signs everywhere is
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sign the gates locked because they don't
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want you driving that car up through
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there and if you have a dog grab a
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grocery bag that way you can pick up
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their d'afrique o matter according to
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this sign it's about a two mile hike
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whichever direction whichever trail we
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take either 1.9 miles for 2.3 miles
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there's a lot of trails up here in the
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future I'll probably do quite a bit of
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hiking on these hills but keep in mind
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the distance I just showed you is all if
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not mostly up hill adds a little bit to
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the experience it's certainly no Mount
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Everest but it's nothing to sneeze at
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either don't sneeze up here don't do it
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don't don't even think about sneezing as
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best I can tell to get to there I have
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to follow this pathway
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straight up and around to the right and
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then another swooping pattern onto that
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trail off in the distance follow it
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around the range completely around the
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backside of those antennas and then
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kong-kong I think I can do it parts of
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this are pretty intense for me I'm not
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in the best physical shape of my life
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I'm not in the worst either if you're
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planning on doing this just kind of
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gauge me as an example if you own or s--
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a horse was here I wonder if his name is
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Charlie and if he's gonna visit me soon
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charlie horse most likely it doesn't
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hurt to take a breather monitor ah she
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doesn't hurt to just take a little
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breather catch your breath
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Oh what the heck I just noticed there is
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a stash of letters in there that people
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have written walked up here and thrown
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them inside the trunk of this tree can
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way from Achilles before I compared to
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Florida there are very few bugs in
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Southern California but the ones that
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are here they find me very easily and
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from here we can get our first decent
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view of the skyline we've come a long
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way but we're still heading right up
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they're still pretty good ways to go up
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this way to the right and then loop
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around to hopefully achieve our
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destination I am very thankful that it
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is cloudy today this time of the year if
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the Sun was beaming down heavily it
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would make this much much more do is
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that a bench there's a bench up there
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I'm certain it was placed here to get a
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view of the Overlook but I'm counting my
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blessings it's a nice place to just take
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take off
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to catch my breath while enjoying the
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scenic quietness of this amazing I love
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it up here look at that it looks is this
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oh yes we did
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you made it we made it we make something
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doesn't seem right because over here
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there's a sign stating that still
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approximately another mile or so to the
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sign someone fooled us by that you made
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it sign someone fooled us Oh
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hitting the first pattern of a very very
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slight descent only for a few yards and
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then back up again but I'm not
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complaining just going downhill right
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now I'm pretty grateful for that what's
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that little guy you doing the hike to
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you by yourself you want to you want to
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tag along you want to join me
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shall you oh never mind he's got his
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family with them and a little baby all
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right I'll let you be I'll wait to be
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the long and winding road dun dun Dada
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leads to the side kind of see the
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antennas right now I'm not even going to
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pretend that these are petunias but in
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all reality what are they what kind of
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plant are those if I child down on those
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would I have a into the wild moments
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from this point you can see the Griffith
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Observatory on the far left of your
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screen and right in the middle of these
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two ranges faintly in the smog you can
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see downtown Los Angeles of course
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Hollywood over to the right the
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observatory normally is the closest spot
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that's the generalization of where you
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stay at normally to see the sign but I
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have a feeling when we turn this corner
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the grand reveal will be directly in
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front of us
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tucked away in the canyon down there
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some horses that'd be really cool to
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ride a horse through here so a long time
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so I wrote a horse can be more ethic to
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write it up to the side
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if that's possible a creature of the
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wild a creature of the wild Jurassic
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Park
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prepare thyselves prepare thyselves I
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think it's good it is it's happening oh
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oh look at that
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we're nearly there you'll notice there's
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a fork in the road if you take the one
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to the right and go up the mountain you
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can leave up to behind the sign which is
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where I'm going to go if you take the
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one to the left and veer around there is
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a viewing area from the front I've seen
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it from the front enough times I want to
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see it from the top I wonder which way
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he's going you go under the top body
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going to the top
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someone has scribbled out the word back
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and wrote top okay what if I can climb
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on top of it that would be I'll be
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pretty exciting in reality there would
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be heavy legal fees pleasures a huge
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fence and cameras everywhere and
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helicopters flying around this is the
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hardest part of the hike straight up
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nine tenths of a mile oh man seriously
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pretty much straight freakin up I swear
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this feels like the neverending road
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just goes on and on and on on the
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opposite side of the path in the
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direction I'm heading is Forest Lawn
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Cemetery down there at the bottom of the
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mountain and if you look faintly past
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the freeway ABC Studios and Disney
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Animation Disney Studios continuing on
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now continuing on and near the summit is
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this placard Kohanga Peak was added to
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Griffith Park with the help and support
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of donors worldwide and most of them are
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in the movie industry if you look
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closely there is an etching of the sign
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right there well I'm heading to just
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around this corner if my calculations
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are correct we should be seeing it at oh
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yes oh yes
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holy cow it also starts with an H and an
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O in and out that's the Hollywood sign
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right there plenty of barbed wire alarms
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signage stating you are not allowed look
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at the cameras lots of cameras
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documenting anyone that's up to no good
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the odds of getting caught are pretty
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good
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some people get away with jumping the
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fence and never get caught
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I'm not going to chance it but how
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amazing is that just a few more steps up
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to the top of that embankment for the
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best view in the house we've come this
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far might as well go a little farther I
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use the word majestic pretty often but I
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have to say in this instance it applies
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it definitely applies just soaking it in
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always wanted to do this Wow Hollywood
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sign above it not below it looking up
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above the sign self
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pretty freaking cool mission
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accomplished Holly whoo some things you
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just have to experience you just have to
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experience what I do this again probably
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but I would do things a little bit
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differently I would bring a backpack I
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would bring more Gatorade and water than
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what I had I ran out almost towards the
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top still had a little bit water when I
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reach the summit and now it's gone now
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to make the complete way back down the
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mountain without anything to drink which
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I should be good because most of it is
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slightly downhill if you decide to do
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this I would recommend going
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to the parking area not walking the two
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miles that I did starting off this
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morning from my place to the
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starting-point because I just added to
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it also do it on a day like I did when a
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sight slightly overcast or not
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scorchingly hot it's not an expert's
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hike by any means I don't really know a
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lot about hiking but if I had to grade
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it it's not easy but it's not hard so if
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you're not used to hiking if you're not
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used to walking a lot you might want to
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rethink it because this is slightly
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difficult for those who normally are not
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out and about or walking uphill or give
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it a little bit of thought before you
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make the commitment
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other than that amazing incredible to
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stand up there and look over LA and
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Hollywood and see the sign from an angle
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that not a lot of people get to see it
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from thanks for joy to be on this
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mission something I've wanted to do for
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a long time there might be a couple
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other options on ways to get up here
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this is the one I chose just simply
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because it's easy to punch in
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google.maps park your car which I walked
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but if you had a car park your car and
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then just follow the path I took
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and you also could accomplish this and
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one other thing that would have been
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wise some sunblock we still have this
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