IMPORTANT UPDATE: STARTING 11/5/2023 WE WILL BE REVERTING TO FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. Sign ups will open 9PM on Sundays of Wave release (instead of being open 9PM-12AM)
Have you ever wondered about the edibility of the plants that you see while hiking near LA? If so, then join us on this 5.5 mile hike in Angeles National Forest with mushroom and plant club MYCO and wilderness medicine professor/ outdoors extraordinaire Dr. Michael Mulick! Dr. Mulick will be educating us on some of the plants we see along the way. Get your Bear Grylls on and get ready for a fun foraging trip! This is a MYCO x Peaks event, so sign ups will be through MYCO instead of on this webpage :)
PACKING LIST:
Water
Waivers
hiking boots/running shoes
sunscreen
PROFESSOR: Michael Mulick
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology (Part-Time)
Michael Mulick is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine and is the director of Wilderness Medicine at the University of Southern California where he holds a faculty appointment.
A Chicago native, he received his DO from AZCOM/Midwestern University. He trained at Yale-New Haven hospital in anesthesiology and completed a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Seattle Children's Hospital/University of Washington and a fellowship in pediatric cardiac anesthesiology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles/USC. He has been on the anesthesiology and critical care faculty at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles/USC since 2013.
Dr. Mulick leads a life dedicated to service and adventure. He has visited over 60 countries, worked for Doctors Without Borders (South Sudan, Nigeria), and climbed three of the seven summits (Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro). In medical school, he studied, with the Himalayan Rescue Association (Nepal), the effects of ginkgo biloba and diamox on climbers ascending to Mt. Everest. He also worked as a physician for a year in New Zealand.
Dr. Mulick surfs, plays piano, and is currently writing a book about living in an RV for a year with his wife and two kids.
PEAK: Dawn Mine and Sunset loop trail
DIFFICULTY: 3/5 (5.5 miles | 1,500 ft elevation gain)
SCENERY: shaded woody areas, mountain views
FUN FACT: we’ll be seeing the remnants of dawn mine while hiking!
TRIP LEAD: Aditi
watches so many wilderness survival videos in her free time
Contact Aditi: aajagann@usc.edu (hyperlinked!)
Read Aditi’s bio here. (hyperlinked!)