I wanted to post my experience with an EX raid in southern California. We have a couple groups organized mostly through facebook messenger that work raids in Azusa, Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, Covina and West Covina primarily. I also put short version at the end.
EX Pass A number of us (pretty random) got the EX raid pass for the Sprint store in Glendora, California, with others getting raid passes for a West Covina Sprint store and possibly one other store a little further west. Several of us that had received the EX pass had raided on 09/02 at the Sprint store at 5:30 AM for a Raikou raid. For me, that was the only time I had raided at that location ever, as I tend to focus more on San Dimas and La Verne.
For a lot of people in our group, this was frustrating because there were people who had raided widely and heavily over the last several weeks and even months who didn't get a pass. I myself had eased off and had only been raiding one or twice a day for the last few weeks (grad school + work). I counted myself lucky but felt bad for some of the more committed group members.
Once the raid passes went out - it doesn't seem like anybody else got the pass after that, even though many of the group members did raid at that store after the pass first came out.
Pre-Raid Lot of discussion about gym control on the threads. People started warring for gym control as early as 24 hours out (maybe earlier). Instinct had the gym and had people feeding it several hours before the raid. Impressively, they maintained control fighting off 20-30 players by coordinating their golden razzberries. I was valor and trying to fight them, but we only ended up taking 2 of their pocket monsters off the gym before Mewto spawned. Props to instinct that day (I was kind of happy they got it because they often don't get the team bonus from having enough players at raids). From what I understand they did burn through almost all of their goldez razzberries.
Pre-raid there had been some discussion about having staged groups go in a certain order (mystic, then valor, then instinct). We also talked about having a mop up crew that would be there for stragglers but that didn't really happen. I for one wanted to make sure I was in a valor group to get the damage bonus and not enough valor players seemed ready to hang back. I think it would be ideal (though unlikely) for valor, mystic, and instinct to dedicate 7 players each to going in later (a half hour after raid battle go
... keep reading on reddit ➡I live in glendora California and i was thinking can the area get a flash flood or not please someone tells me it can or it can not get a flash flood
I just rode GMR up and down to Baldy Village for the first time today and really enjoyed the ride. My only gripe was that there were a ton of motorcycles and cars speeding up and down the mountain that occasionally came dangerously close to hitting me.
For those familiar with the road, do you have a recommended day/time to ride up GMR to avoid the speeding motor cycles and cars? Is it simply just hitting the road as early in the morning as possible? Are weekdays better?
PS: I’m sorry for posting this on a bicycling subreddit that isn’t specific to Southern California, but the search function showed me that GMR cycling posts were most common on this subreddit, so I figured I could get an answer here.
Thank you.
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