"It's was a very high-stress experience," Jordon said. When he explained he was not DWA property, the police eventually let him go, Jordon said. The security guard called the police, and within minutes, three police officers stood around Jordon. "He pops out of the hills in camouflage and asks you what you're doing," Jordon said, adding that the guard told him he was trespassing but that he replied he was not. It wasn't his first run-in with the security guard. He recalled that one morning in March 2013, he was showing a friend a legal path around the Desert Water Agency's square-mile plot when the DWA security guard appeared. "The Desert Water Agency tries to make it out like the entire mountain here is theirs, which is not the case, and that's been the rub," said Matt Jordon, a local hiker who says the agency's security guard, a former Marine, has harassed him and others on National Forest lands outside the DWA's property. Forest Service announced in July that is considering a proposal to reissue a 30-year permit to DWA for operating and maintaining a water tank, pipelines and other infrastructure on the federal lands next to its property. And that debate has recently flared again after the U.S. Over the years, the issue of public access has sparked vehement letters back and forth between outdoor enthusiasts and the water agency. The agency draws a small portion of its water from the creek and manages the property as a restricted area, saying trespassers must be kept out to protect the quality of the drinking water. Some hikers and climbers have long complained that access to the mountain has been hindered by the Desert Water Agency, which owns 640 acres at the base of the mountain straddling Snow Creek. Climbers regularly set out in the spring while ice remains on the peak, using ice axes and crampons for part of the ascent. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania or the Matterhorn in the Alps. San Jacinto towers above the desert like a jagged cathedral of granite, its steep slopes and boulder-strewn ravines providing a wonderland for hikers and alpine climbers unlike any other in Southern California.įor experienced mountaineers, climbing the north face to the 10,834-foot summit represents a skill-testing challenge, and sometimes an opportunity to train for high peaks elsewhere in the world such as Mt. I’m so lucky I got to work with him for so many years.Watch Video: Debate sparks over access to Snow Creek A killer work ethic, passionately into it. I’ll always remember him at his drawing board, arms blackened to the elbows with graphite, eraser shavings everywhere, bringing my characters to life. “Hey Arnold!” creator Craig Bartlett paid tribute to Tucker on Instagram, writing: “A great friend, a master draftsman, a tireless practical joker, a brilliant storyteller, the first one I reached out to when I began ‘Hey Arnold!’ because he was the best board guy I had ever met. Beyond his work in the film and television industry, Tucker began teaching graphic and animation design in 2015 at Longwood University in Farmville, Va. Tucker’s most recent project was as a storyboard revisionist for the upcoming “Bob’s Burgers” film, which is currently in production. Tucker also wrote six episodes of the series.
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Tucker was also well-known for his work on “SpongeBob SquarePants,” including as a storyboard artist for “SpongeBob SquarePants The Movie” in 2004 and as the supervising storyboard director for 47 episodes of the hit series from 2007 to 2014. He was the storyboard director on 25 episodes of “Hey Arnold!” between 19, and went on to direct “Hey Arnold! The Movie” in 2002 as well as working as the supervising director on 19 episodes of the show between 19.
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