Hey Steve and Fred,
Thanks for just going back to my childhood age. Even I can't remember much past the 5,000 year mark as things are kind of fuzzy from then back.
Ibr,
That is probably the one. I never heard it called that and we just called it the first thing that came to mind. I loved living there and really would like to come back down and spend a few days just wandering around and looking. We cut trails through the undergrowth to get to the three waterfalls that were behind Paradise Camp. And to drive over San Marcos Pass in a Cobra would be a blast. Darn I had a lot of fun in my childhood, just 2800 years old then, and no Govt. regulations to protect us. We made racers out of any wood and wheels we could scrounge and used to pull them to the top of the mountains and race down the fire roads they had cut. I also smashed several of the racers into big trees as we had no brakes and we did get up top some pretty fast speeds. And the beaches at Santa Barbara were great fun.
Ron