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16 Part Sjiurdiy. tVlutvrX. lCtt Co Angrira gtmf DOONES8URY By GarryTfudeau Era ripa (V GU numagomu Volkssport in Pasadena: Walk for Suds tehfVA US7E0FKUX. BICWIIBUST if MM. I POfTWST 1 Day Hike For Walkers With a Sense of Humor By JOHN UcKINXEY In the early part of this century, the Los Angeles Flood Control District built Puddingstone Dam in the San Jose Hills near San Dimas.

Completed in 1928 to capture and store rainwater and storm runoff, the dam created a 250-acre lake. The new lake soon attracted swimmers and fishermen and has remained a popular destination for more than 60 years. As the population of the San Gabriel Valley mushroomed during I I t0 CH6CD. tl FOOT-tH- JU-TM HCUTHCm! I AFMlP SfiWIOSrZPfiSlVe Alfred Sheinwold Today's East had to make two good plays to beat 3NT. but he fell at the first hurdle.

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Crossing thistle and prickly pear cactus-covered slopes, the trail soon offers its first view of Puddingstone Reservoir. Depending on the day's ozone level, the San Gabriel Mountains rise majestically or murkily before you. The hills are brown now. but in spring are green, brightened with mustard and California poppies. The trail descends into a shallow, walnut-shaded canyon and crosses a creek, which is usually dry.

Nearing the park's equestrian center, the path emerges from the greenery and reaches a fork located by a thicket of blackberry bushes. The left fork ascends a hillock, dead-ending at an overlook high above Raging Waters. On clear days, this overlook offers a panorama from Ht Baldy to San Bernardino. Take the right fork, proceed along a fence line, then switch back up a jimson weed- and monkey-flower-dotted slope to the Boater Picnic Area. The trail descends an oak and pine-shaded draw, passes a fig tree, then joins a fire road that leads near the Raging Waters amusement park.

Crossing Puddingstone Road, near the entrance to Raging Waters, pick up the signed Equestrian Trail, which soon deposits you at a boat-launching area on the north side of the reservoir. Now improvisation begins in earnest Join the paved walkway and head east along the north shore of the reservoir. When the walkway gives out pick up the unmarked dirt trail that continues east then south along the moist, willow-choked lake shore. Perched on the hill above you is the park's campground. Join a paved bike path and pass several picnic areas.

After passing through well-named Picnic Valley, walk up Eucalyptus Park Road to its junction with Via Verde Park Road. At this point you're just about opposite park headquarters. A right turn and a short walk along Via Verde will return you to the trailhead. calyptus, cedar and pine have been planted in the park. Wildlife includes squirrels, cottontail rabbits.

blackUil rabbits, raccoons and deer. About 130 bird species have been sighted in the park. Bonelli's trail system is poorly marked and oriented toward equestrians, not pedestrians. It's the hiker with a sense of directionand a sense of humor who will most enjoy a walk in this park. Trails and trail junctions rarely are signed, but the paths don't stray loo far from park roads and landmarks, so you won't get lost Your best bet for hiking BoneUi is to pick up a park map (out of date, but it locates major features) from headquarters and improvise your route.

Directions to tat Frank G. BoneUi Regional Park has two main entrances. Exit the San Bernardino Freeway on Ganesha Boulevard, then turn left west) on Via Verde Park Road. Continue a couple of miles to park headquarters, where you can pick up an equestrian-trails map. You can park in Picnic Valley off Via Verde Park Road or continue following this road out of BoneUi to the Caltrans parking lot located just west of the Foothill Freeway.

Exit the Foothill Freeway on Via Verde. Park in the Caltrans lot just west of the freeway. There's a $3-per-vehicle charge for entering the park by car. No cost to walk in. For more information about Frank G.

BoneUi Regional County Park: (714) 599-8411. The hike: From the Caltrans parking lot cross (with caution) to the south side of Via Verde and follow the sidewalk on the freeway overpass into the park. Look right (south) for the path signed Equestrian Trail. (If you want to pick up a park map, continue a short distance farther up Via Verde to the headquartersadministration office.) The trail enters the bougain-villea-draped mouth of the under-. pass beneath Via Verde.

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Fitness Academy. Information: (213) 665-5188. Legg Lake 6K Challenge Fast, flat, tree-lined course. Begins 8 a.m. at Legg Lake, south of South El Monte.

Race walking, wheelchair and 200-pound-and-over divisions. no T-shirt Discounts for groups of 15 or more. Benefits the Pico Rivera Athletic Club. Information: Arthur Martinez, (213) 949-0394. Lagoon Fun Runa Cross-country-type course.

Begins 10 a.m. every Sunday at the UC Santa Barbara Lagoon on the campus. One-half, one, three, four, five and six miles. Children welcome. No entry fee.

Information: Patsy Simioni, (805) 683-1789. Next Weekend Oct. 15 Lions Run 2K and 10K, San Jacinto; (714 654-7774. Oct. 16 High Desert Classic 610K RunWalk.

Victorville; (714) 548-4897. Pumpkin 5K 10K Classic Kiddie K. Van Nuys; (818) 902-5776. Legg Lake 5K Morning Dew Run, South El Monte; (213) 949-0394. Inco Homes High Desert Classic 5K and 10K RunWalk, Victorville; (714) 548-4897.

Volkssport It sounds vaguely eonununist somehow, but si's jus the opposite. Rather arurrhtstir. actually, with just enough organisation to encourage the volks to get out and do it Pasadena Heritage embraces the activity next Saturday with Hi first Volksmarch. this one with a head on it: At the end of the march-more a pleasant noncompetitive 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) stroll participants are invited to a brer-tasting festival. The Volkssport phenomenon, says Pasadena Heritages Sue Mossman.

is sweeping America, with some 400 Volkssports clubs sponsoring walks, swims, bicycle tours. (With the inaugural walk-cum-beer bust Pasadena Heritage becomes the official Volkssport Cub of the area, joining Hollywood. Long Beach and other Southland communities. "We've been amazed at the says Mossman. "We have people coming in from Redlands.

Victorville. Not hordes, you understand, but we've also had inquiries from as far away as Texas and Minnesota. It's become a real Aloag tlMWay Volksmarches generally lead through an area of historical interest or rare beauty (Pasadena, of course, claims both), with a brochure provided for a self-guided tour and with checkpoints set up to record a walker's progress, much as passports used to be stamped. When a book is full with a number of varying hikes recorded, it may be sent off to the American Volkssport which provides appropriate patches and pins. The walk begins and ends at Memorial Park, where, through no coincidence, the beer-tasting also will be held.

With health and intellect stimulated by the walk, doesn't a subsequent beer bust seem a little inappropriate? "It's slightly more elevated that that." says Mossman with simulated indignation. "We'll have about 30 brands of beer from all over the world, but we only pour tastes; say two fingers in a Pilsener glass. OK, make it three fingers. "In any case, participants will get a nice taste of the best of Pasadena." Heady stuff. Volksmarch, starting and finish' ing at Memorial Park (just south of Walnut Street, west of Marengo Avenue), begins 8 a.m.

to last starting time at I p.m., and must be completed by 4 to gain credit; $5 for those wanting progress recorded and an embroidered patch; free for everyone else. Beer'tasting, also at park, is $12 for members, $15 for non-members. (818) 793-0617. -DICKRORABACK DISC GOLF Continued from Page 14 hurl their Frisbees (the 165-gram World Class model) into the trash cans on the beach (a tradition on beach courses). Though that system allows players to know for sure that targets have been hit, "it got too messy fishing the Frisbees out of the cans," Zamlicka says.

Thus the group switched to simply hitting targets. And though the Manhattan Beach foursome prefers the World Class model, professional players now tend to use a 21 -centimeter disc, "which would go four times as far as 165 would go," says Ed Headrick, former chief executive officer of Wham-0 and the self-described "steady geezer" of his firm, the Disc Golf Assn. Based in Lakeport, the company created the aforementioned Professional Disc Golf Assn. and installs and supplies course hardware (disc -trapping devices that make it possible for players to know decisively if targets have been hit). "It's really catching on in Japan," says Headrick, who estimates that the modern version of the sport has been around as long as Frisbees have since the mid-1960s.

Favors Nation's First Though Headrick has seen hundreds of disc golf courses spring up, he is still particularly impressed with the one he designed in 1975 at La Canada's Oak Grove Park, which was the first municipal disc golf course in the country. According to Roddick of Wham-O, there are now about a dozen official disc golf courses in the greater Los Angeles area. At La Canada's Oak Grove park course, players often are scientists from the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory or students from Cal-tech. "You can go down there and find 100 kids playing disc golf at 8 o'clock in the morning," Headrick says. "The scientists, they come down there at lunch.

They call it their martini lunch. Then they go back to work and start flying their satellites. "I imagine one day they'll be playing satellite golf, saying, 'OK, let's take Mars for that next Astrological Forecast Bondli Park Trail Sis-mile loop of Frank G. BoneUi Regional Park the 1950s and 1960s, the state Department of Parks and Recreation began purchasing land around the reservoir. Puddingstone Reservoir Slate Park, as it was known, remained a little-developed, tow-key place until 1970.

when the property was transferred to Los Angeles County. Today the park features the aquatic amusement park Raging Waters, a golf course, a giant RV campground and a hot-tub rental establishment Plans are in the works for a hotel, cocktail lounge and second golf course. The park, the county's second largest, has long been the center of controversy between those who want to further develop the park and those who would prefer that the park's hills and canyons remain wild. These conflicting sentiments even are etched onto the lakeside plaque dedicated to former county supervisor and park namesake Frank G. BonellL The plaque proclaims that the park is dedicated for "use as a county regional recreation and wilderness area for the enjoyment of all." Intensive Recreation As most outdoors enthusiasts know, the words recreation and wilderness mean different things to different people.

For the last 15 years, the county Parks Department has leaned heavily toward intensive recreation at the park, which is visited by more than 2 million people each year. Considering that two of the park's borders are the Foothill and San Bernardino freeways and drag boat races are held on Puddings-tone Reservoir, BoneUi offers more peace and solitude than one might expect. Fourteen miles of trails cross the park's chaparral-covered hills and lead through quiet canyons shaded by oak and walnut groves. Plantations of pepper, eu Sam Hall Kaplan Historic Tour Visions of the once and, residents hope, future West Adams community are being offered today and Sunday in the sixth annual Historic Homes Tour of the area. Paralleling the Santa Monica Freeway from Vermont Avenue west to Crenshaw Boulevard, the area was one of the city's more desirable residential neighborhoods before falling victim to insensitive development, mindless neglect and racial discrimination in the 1950s and '60s.

But in the last decade, scattered, well-appointed, architecturally significant and relatively reasonably priced houses on select blocks there have attracted increasing interest and investment. The result has been an emerging multi-ethnic community that contains some evocative, expanding enclaves of gentility. On display for the tour are two of the enclaves. One is focused on the more established, sedate Victoria Circle, a palm-lined oval street of substantial residences of mixed styles on deep, wide lots just west of Crenshaw Boulevard and north of Venice Boulevard. The other is a collection of vintage Craftsman-styled chalets on South Branson Avenue, east of Crenshaw Boulevard and south of Venice Boulevard, and a more modest Craftsman bungalow on South Norton Avenue.

The inclusion in this year's tour of the Branson Avenue houses is particularly pleasing to the sponsoring West Adams Heritage Assn. The houses last year had been threatened with condemnation and demolition by the Los Angeles Unified School District as part of a plan to expand the nearby Mt. Vernon Junior High School. Vociferous protests by the association and others prompted the school board to abandon the plan for now. The houses, including 1749, 1759 1817 and 1823 S.

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In this and other multiple runs below, the start times, prices and courses may vary; details are for major run. Wheelchair and other special divisions may be scheduled. Telephone ahead for check-in times and changes. Sunday Run for LIFE 5K and 1 0K Run on gradual hills with some flat places. Begins 8:30 a.m.

at Rancho Park, West Los Angeles. Fun and celebrity walk division. $14 with T-shirt Benefits local hunger projects. Information: (213) 936-0895. Travel Town 6000 and Kids Run A scenic run on blacktop roads through Griffith Park.

Begins 8 a.m. at carrousel, Griffith Park. Wheelchair division. $13 MARGE ARMSTRONG The Hoffman House at 4345 Victoria Park Drive is one of the homes featured on the West Adams Heritage Assn. homes tour.

Adams an Italian Renaissance-styled structure built in 1913 that hints of the area's Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. Tickets $10 for adults; youths 12 and younger and seniors 65 and older, $7.50 can be purchased until 4 p.m. at the starting point 1755 S.

Branson north of Washington Boulevard. Free parking is available in nearby school lots; watch for tour signs. The walk between Branson Avenue and Victoria Circle enclave is about three blocks, but a shuttle bus will be available for 50 cents per ride. In conjunction with the tour, the heritage association also will hold an open festival in Victoria Circle, featuring ethnic food stands, arts and crafts booths and entertainment to call attention to the diversity of the broader West Adams community. Information: (213) 730-1414.

had been built in 1913 and 1914 on speculation, featuring horizontally accented rafters and roof lines, wood shingling, deep front porches and broad front doors that mark the Craftsman style. More eclectic and expansive are the houses on display in Victoria Circle. They include two elegant, capacious Craftsman chalets, at 4311 and 4345 Victoria Park Drive; a Mediterranean-detailed Moderne duplex at 4401-03, and a Modernist-styled house at 4346. What makes the house at 4346 noteworthy is its decidedly contemporary, horizontally accented construction, dated 1911. The architect (unknown) was obviously influenced by the then-Modernist designs of Frank Lloyd Wright and Irving Gill.

Also featured on the tour is the Sedondo Guasti Villa, at 3500 W..