Our first hike of 2014 did not follow the usual format. We’re quite used to doing our own thing, typically by ourselves, but we had noticed that the naturalists at Wind Wolves were leading a series of monthly night hikes that coincided with a full moon. So, we called this week and were told…
We had talked this morning about maybe doing a hike after church, but couldn’t really come up with a good option that didn’t involve a two-hour drive which would limit the amount of daylight we’d have. However, we got a wild hair about 4pm to go walk somewhere before it got dark, so we…
During our various hikes around Mt. Pinos, we have often looked southward across the scenic valleys and canyons of the southern Los Padres region to a long line of mountaintops – the western end of this range is Pine Mountain, over which Hwy 33 crosses between Maricopa and Ojai. Despite driving on Hwy 166…
Whiting Ranch Regional Park lies adjacent to the housing tract where Jane’s brother, Kevin, lives with his family in the hills above Irvine in Orange County – the park gained notoriety back in 2004 when the most recent fatal attack by a mountain lion in California occurred here. One of the more remote canyons within…
Our 28th wedding anniversary being November 3rd, we wanted to spend the weekend away somewhere, and we initially targeted Wrightwood, a mountain community of 5,000 residents in the eastern San Gabriels. We had made a day visit here a couple of years ago and wanted to look at vacation homes as well as explore…
After nearly three weeks of no hikes since our last outings in Hawaii, we were eager to get back in the saddle, so we planned to drive to Quaking Aspen and tackle the 10-mile roundtrip up and down Slate Mountain early this Saturday morning. However, after Jane got very little sleep Friday night and our…
This was our last hiking day before leaving for Hawaii on the 27th, and we had our sights set on Slate Mountain, a 9,300′ peak on the Great Western Divide – however, more car trouble and a desire to have a shorter day led us to choose instead Antimony Peak near Pine Mountain Club,…
This hike had a really hard time even getting started. The agenda today called for us to drive up to Pine Mountain Club again, this time to hike the traverse from San Emigdio Mountain west to Brush Mountain, these being located north of Mil Potrero Hwy and opposite the Mt. Pinos ridge we’ve recently hiked twice….
We had originally planned to hike on back-to-back days over the Memorial Day weekend, but work tasks, family commitments, and general fatigue prompted us to save our walk for the holiday proper. We had tickets to the Dodgers-Angels game that Monday night, so we figured we would hike somewhere close to Cart and Dani’s…
After last week’s failed attempt to do the Mt. Pinos-Cerro Noroeste 13-mile traverse, we realized that doing the same circuit in the opposite direction would be 4 miles shorter, principally because we could park at the west trailhead and save the distance over the top of Mt. Pinos. For some reason, Chris had thought…