White Point Landslide

MaxBottomtime · Nov 21, 2011

I was born in San Pedro and spent most of my adult life there. I began free diving and later scuba at White Point. It was one mile from my apartment and a relatively easy dive compared to most of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. For night diving, I would park under the palm tree just off Paseo del Mar and hike down the fire road. The landslide of the past few weeks has washed away the area. I went down there this afternoon with Merry and Jeff Shaw to get a first-hand look.

My old parking space is now twenty feet below street level

Crews remove asphalt

The beginning of the White Point Artificial Reef
I am used to seeing news vans every time someone jumps off Pt. Fermin, but this was big news this week.

leabre · Nov 21, 2011

Wow, I've only done Whitepoint 3x but it was one of my most memorable. Those christmas landscapes were one-of-a-kind. Did the landslide effect any of the surf zone where the sulfur vents are (it is sulfur, right?) or just the parking lot and entrance?

Mr Carcharodon · Nov 21, 2011

Nice photos as usual. The last time my bike club rode through there I managed to find a one foot drop on Paseo del Mar. Not usual rodie protocol. Is access to the state park compromised from the Western side?

MaxBottomtime · Nov 21, 2011

leabre:
Wow, I've only done Whitepoint 3x but it was one of my most memorable. Those christmas landscapes were one-of-a-kind. Did the landslide effect any of the surf zone where the sulfur vents are (it is sulfur, right?) or just the parking lot and entrance?

Mr Carcharodon:
Nice photos as usual. The last time my bike club rode through there I managed to find a one foot drop on Paseo del Mar. Not usual rodie protocol. Is access to the state park compromised from the Western side?

The parking lot is OK so far. The restrooms in the upper lot are closed and port-o-potties have been brought in. The baseball field has not been damaged, but the cliff is made of compressed sand, not the shale and limestone found elsewhere around the peninsula. It wouldn't surprise me if the entire east side of White Point slid in. Great video on CNN.com

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2011/11/21/vosil-la-highway-collapse.kabc.html

H2Ocean · Nov 22, 2011

It looks like the birth of a new cove, we named it "hardcore cove" !!

MaxBottomtime · Nov 22, 2011

I used to call it my local mudhole. Now it really is!

LLKZ16 · Nov 24, 2011

Wow! This is pretty crazy!

I had no idea this happened, when did it start to slide and will they try to fix the situation.

MaxBottomtime · Nov 24, 2011

The day after: Extent of Paseo del Mar landslide shocks onlookers - The Daily Breeze

Spg01 · Jan 5, 2012

Is it possible to get to the lower parking lot? Or is it still a mess?

Nevermind, I found a map show that this happened on the otherside of the point. And it won't matter with the surf this weekend anyway.

White Point Landslide

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