#brushcanyontrail

[trelovestotravel]

"Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show” #california #brushcanyontrail #hollywoodsign #hiking #wanderlust #summer #losangeles #wherearewebabe? #whattodoinlosangeles #thegreatoutdoors #travel #theroadlesstraveled #globetrotter #vacationchecklist (at Brush Canyon Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jlEFoAkww/?igshid=db1iqyrn81l6

[skullsordice]

Also hiked the Brush Canyon Trail to the Hollywood sign and this was my first real hike ever and it was hard! I’m SO proud of myself because I almost turned back a few times but kept going. This was just a part of it. Although there aren’t really ticks here, there are rattlesnakes and I def heard one (no I’m not being dramatic @johnnypast). I thought it was a bird and some normies stopped and panicked which made me panic but it was all uphill so I couldn’t run and was like you’re dead so might as well keep going and anyway.........it was worth it. No filter bc NATURE Y’ALL💚 . . . . #brushcanyontrail #nature #la #hollyridgetrail #sky #hiking #partyhard #thisishowithrash #thisistheonlytimeifeelalive https://www.instagram.com/dredgly/p/BvsSoUonk0G9LZb9OwLsKSsyTbhNy-Le1kqZMU0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ehrev4mzarw

[hannahnguyn]

Finally got to go to the top of this thing! 

A little on what I've learned:

The sign was originally an advertisement for a real estate development, and read "Hollywoodland" in 1923. The sign was lit, and would flash "HOLLY," then "WOOD," then "LAND."  Come 1949, The City of L.A. stepped in and decided the sign would represent the whole region of Hollywood, and removed "LAND" from the sign. Each letter is 45 feet tall, and the word stretches 350 feet long.

While doing my research, I came across a prank, and just couldn't resist posting a picture. In 1993 before the annual UCLA-USC football game, some students altered the sign to read "GO UCLA." It's also read "HOLLYWeed" and "GO NAVY." 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Sign

http://www.hollywoodsign.org/the-history-of-the-sign/beacon-of-a-new-wave-mt-lee-and-the-birth-of-television/

http://robertkaplinsky.com/work/ucla-prank/