Here's a wider look at the area so you can get a better feel for the way Elmers bunch up their vehicles. In the photographs that we took, we observed a new Elmer enter into the picture as he came within inches of repeatedly collided with another Elmer's vehicle as he drove back and forth trying to get past. (And if we can recover those photos, we'll add them to this series.)

While looking at this photograph you might get the impression that Elmer parks his vehicles haphazardly and in no particular order. That's quite true: it appears that the U. S. Forest Service does not direct Elmers at how they should park, and the result is pretty bizarre -- as well as amusing if you're observing Off Road Elmers in their natual habitat from the hillside across the highway.

You might have noticed in this series so far that Highway 39 -- San Gabriel Canyon highway -- is usually empty of vehicles. It's early in the morning which accounts for much of that, but there's only two places for people to drive on this highway now that the Crystal Lake recreation area has been closed due to the Williams Fire that came though: Elmer's Off Road Vehicle area and East Fork Road which is about a quarter of a mile further up the canyon from this point.