I do not know where the "Bear-Stoddard" area is, but it is beocming increasingly clear that this is not a hiking story in the usual sense. Some guys hiked to someone's cabin. I hiked along a highway once when my car broke down. I have experienced tax hikes. Some people think I should take a hike.
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From the Los Angeles Times
Friends' hike ends with sword-wielding brawl
By Ari B. Bloomekatz
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
11:59 AM PDT, October 1, 2007
What started as a Sunday hike in the San Gabriel Mountains among friends turned into a violent brawl involving a sword and pepper spray.
Police said 26-year-old Wesley Brockway, of Ontario, hiked to a friend's cabin near Mt. Baldy at about 3:30 p.m. with another friend. Soon after arriving, a fight ensued among the three men.
"One of the hikers had a sword and apparently the three of them fought for control of the sword," said Lt. Roxanna Hart of the L.A. County sheriff's station in San Dimas.
Authorities said pepper spray was also used in the fight, though Hart said police have not yet recovered the weapons involved.
The resident of the cabin was taken to a nearby hospital where he remains with serious injuries to his arm.
Brockway was arrested soon after the brawl and charged with attempted murder. He is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail.
ari.bloomekatz@latimes.com