We had rather precision timing for this excursion, not much time to spare. We left home after 6PM, started hiking from the Eaton Saddle trailhead at 6:43 and reached the top of 6,164 foot San Gabriel Peak 50 minutes later vs. the 20 I had estimated. Here's the view over Mt. Wilson's broadcast and astronomy facilities at 7:36.
Note the cone shaped shadow San Gabriel Peak is casting at center. It looks like we have at least 10 minutes before sunset.
That cone shadow should be pointing close to the Moon, and sure enough the Moon becomes hazily visible to the eye at 7:40. The Moon in this pic is at 7:42 with the peak shadow still clear.
Two minutes later the Moon is clearer but the peak shadow is less well defined.
Sun is just above the horizon at 7:46 with partial eclipsed Moon 20 seconds later:
Sunset at 7:49 with Moon 5 seconds later:
We did not waste any time getting off the mountain soon after sunset, as we didn't want to be on the rougher upper 30 minutes of trail in the dark. We got down to the Mt. Lowe gravel road with this view at 8:25 just before second contact.
We drove up to the Mt. Wilson parking lot, which was gated shut, then down to Red Box (intersection of Angeles Crest Hwy and Mt. Wilson road), when it was close to mid-totality.
There is a star very close to the top of the Moon.
We drove down the Angeles Crest and stopped briefly off Harvey Dr. for third contact.
We were pleasantly surprised this worked so well. The selenelion lasted as long (9 minutes) and the skies were somewhat clearer than in 2015. San Gabriel Peak would not have worked well in 2015 because in September the Moon would rise due east in the direction of Mt. Baldy 25 miles away while in May it rose 23 degrees south of east over the San Gabriel Valley with no high mountain in that direction until San Jacinto 85 miles distant. In the sunset direction Mt. Pinos is 75 miles away.
To the naked eye this was one of the darkest lunar eclipses, more gray than red.