By Daniel Schwartz, TME

On January 8 at about 8 a.m., 70 year-old Studio City resident Tony Quach started hiking up Mount Pinos, as he has regularly done for the last 35 years. He came to enjoy the snow and feed the wild dogs, who he called his “four-legged friends…”(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: Images of Tony Quach (top center after the rescue and middle left while trapped on the mountain), and the people and equipment involved in his heroic rescue

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This is part of the January 23, 2026 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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