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Landscape with Clouds
Restoration at Wildwood
Foggy View from Saddle Peak
Mulhullond Hairpin
This picture doesn’t show it, but sport bikers buzz through this section of Mulhulland on Sundays. The view is from a gnarly scramble that starts with a 20-yard section of rope climb. The trail is a narrow, steep, and shifty scramble… alternating with rock climbing sections. Nasty! Good view, though.
Rust-Colored Amphibian
Bunker Flag
M*A*S*H Site Hike
Hikes
San Gabriels
- Mt. San Antonio via ski hut route (~8 miles rt)
- Pinecrest/Old toll road to Mt. Wilson, Idlehour, pass, and back (~19.69 hot grueling miles)
- Newcomb Pass and little hill to east from Sturtevant and back
- Sturtevant to Chantry via Lower Winter
- Hermit Falls (almost, got distracted up a hill)
- Mt. Zion from Chantry (sighted a black bear!), down via Upper Winter
- Jones Peak via Bailey Canyon
- Eaton Canyon Waterfall (very crowded)
- Hall/Beckley Canyon/Earl Canyon Motorway (not quite to Lukens fire road, but close) (deer and coyote sightings)
- Hall/Beckley Canyon to old water district cabin/garage
- Buckhorn Peak, Winston Ridge, Winston Peak
- Red Box to San Gabriel Peak and Mt Markham
- Upside-down start at Wilson down to West Fork, Devore, Rim Trail, and back up
- Mt. Wilson from Chantry Flat/loop (4200′ gain)
- Lukens rt from Shields canyon/Pinecone
Eastern Sierras
- Lone Pine Lake from Whitney Portal (trout, grouse)
- Methuselah Trail @ Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
Santa Monica Mountains
- Westlake overlook/Sentinel
- Yellow Hill/Leo Carrillo
- Zuma SB/Pt. Dume over the bluff through to Paradise Cove to restaurant. Sea lion colony with hungry pups.
- Zuma canyon trails
- Through Newton Canyon to Buzzard’s Roost (some orange-tipped white butterflies)
- Chumash Trail to Point Mugu direct to Point Mugu Loop and down
- Chumash Trail, down backside and loop around on the inner La Jolla Valley trail
- Ray Miller to fireroad through La Jolla down Chumash Trail
- Ray Miller out and back
- Sara Wan TH/Corral Canyon
- Calabasas Peak/Red Rock Canyon from Stunt Road
- Stunt Road to Saddle Peak
- Stunt Road to old Topanga fire lookout
- Parker Mesa from Trippet Ranch/Topanga State Park
- Hondo Canyon from Old Topanga Canyon to old Topanga fire lookout
- Dry Canyon/Frog Rock (lots of caterpillars)
- Encinal Canyon/Backbone
- Jim Morrison cave via @Piuma
- Dos Vientos from park, loop
- Dos Vientos > Edison Road > Volcano rocks
- Sycamore/Satwiwa meanderings/almost fossil/no name (pair of coyotes, woodpeckers, rust-colored newts, caterpillars)
- Satwiwa to Overlook Trail
- Satwiwa loop (California blackheaded snake)
- Angel Vista from Wendy
- Los Robles, undercut Space Mountain, from Moorpark Rd.
- Wendy TH to Conejo Peak and back
- Wendy to Fossil Trail (ground bees)
- Wendy to Boney (awesome rain, thunder, lighting at the top) (holly-leafed cherries) (rust colored-newt)
- Wendy to overlook rt, ~6 miles
- Newbury Park extinct volcano trail (California quail)
- Bushwhack Hidden Valley to Conejo Peak and back
- Sandstone TH to Balance Rock to Sandstone Peak via the loop
- De Anza trail in Calabasas (south side of 101)
- Peace, Love, Joy at Rancho Sierra Vista (Danielson Monument)
- Kanan to Latigo Canyon or was this Castro Peak
- Calabasas Peak
- Paramount Ranch/Reagan BBQ, Cage Trail, Century Lake (The big trees don’t look very healthy this year)
- King Gillette Ranch grounds walk
- King Gillette Inspiration Point, plus extension trails
- Peter Strauss Ranch short trails/grounds
- MASH site, Century Lake, Rock Pool via Grasslands Trail
Los Padres/Ojai
- Middle Matilija Camp (swimming ponds)
- Sulphur Mountain/Frog Pond
- Rose Valley/Nordoff fire road walk
- Chorro Grande to second camp
- Wild Wolves Preserve canyon walk to count tule elk (sighted 6)
Conservancy/Open Space
- Lynnmere to view of Wildwood/teepee and back
- Wildwood, over the bluffs to Shooting Star trail into Santa Rosa to trains, up Box Canyon
- Trailhead on Wildwood into Santa Rosa Valley, to trains, and back
- Wildwood to Paradise Falls back to teepee, Moonridge/Indian Cave
- Wildwood to KCLU cross and back
- Hill Canyon Fire Road via the heart attack route to above the waste water treatment plant
- Heart Attack/Heartbreak to Mesa Trail back to Lizard Rock down to WWTP, cross water at the sandbag fish weir, back on Hill Canyon Trail
- Heart Attack > Lizard Rock > WWTP > Skunk Hollow > Eagle point > Paradise Falls > back the easy way
- Wildwood over to Santa Rosa and back around via Box Canyon
- Hill Canyon Trail to Western Plateau/Five Points and down Hawk Canyon
- Hill Canyon > Western Plateau > Edison Fireroad overlooking the Conejo grade
- Hill Canyon to Western Plateau to KCLU transmitter, and back
- Conejo Canyons Bridge, bushwhack Hawkridge to that peak, Mount Minion (aka Ellison Mountain) and onto KCLU transmitter/down the Edison roads, above farms, and through cactus patch
- Hill Canyon > Ellison Mountain > ridge route to Mt. Rex > down adjacent to model planes place and Hawk Canyon
- Mt. Rex from Edison road parking
Simi Hills/Thousand Oaks
- Stagecoach Trail to Corriaganville (skunk)
- Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park on Larwin up and over Stagecoach Trail to Corriganville, and back
- Las Virgenes/Cheeseboro Ridge (gopher or some kind of non-rattler snake), part of the De Anza trail north of the 101
- Lang Ranch Trail to Meadow Vista to Albertson loop
- Albertson to China Flat view and back
- Albertson to Simi Peak, out and back
- Oakbrook Vista Trail out and back
- Las Llajas/Chivas (two ridges, a farm, and rattlesnakes)
- Sunset Hills past Bard Reservoir
- Long Canyon through Chumash to Elephant Rock (lotsa Poison Oak)
- Hummingbird Trail
- Chumash trail in Simi
- Palo Comado to China Flats to Simi Peak
- Cheeseboro to Palo Comado
- Dos Vientos
- Angel Vista via Wendy/Los Robles trail (stung by wasps, lol)
- Angel Vista/Los Robles West from Moorpark Rd and loop through suburb
- ET Park and film site roundabout Porter Ranch
Channel Islands
- Potato Harbor (Santa Cruz Island) (sea lions, dolphins, whale, fox)