September is one of the best months to hike in L.A. The summer tourists are gone, but warm weather remains, providing intrepid hikers with the ideal conditions to enjoy a good weekend workout. While ...

Emily Phillips Brinker teaches yoga in the Fern Dell section of Griffith Park near several good hiking trails. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) “Isn’t this grand?” Laurie Hang Hutter swept her arms ...

New Year’s Day was exceptionally bright and warm, the sort of day we could brag about to shivering relations back east, if we felt like rubbing it in. As I parked at Griffith Park at 10 a.m., in the ...