 A four-man weather station was established in 1933 at the windy peak of nearby Bald Mountain, which straddles the boundary between the maritime climate to the south and a drier climate to the north.In 1953, the weather observers had to visually check the instruments and manually transmit the information via Teletype.In 1978, the Weather Service switched to an automated station, explaining, in the words of "Los Angeles Times" staff writer Marika Gerrard, that "It was just too hard to find someone to live up in that remote region with nothing to do but record weather statistics every hour on the hour."