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Hiking Laguna Coast Wilderness Park–Willow Canyon to Bommer Ridge
Summer time can be tough for hiking in Southern California. The arid climate means very few trees for cover in the lower mountains around Orange and Riverside Counties, making them way too hot for...
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Robbers Roost to Weir Canyon Wilderness Park–The “Secret Park”
I guess you could say Weir Canyon Wilderness Park is hidden in plain sight. We had stumbled across a reference to a Weir Canyon Trail on Trails.com, that appeared to connect to another hike within...
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Devil’s Chair in Devil’s Punchbowl, Straddling the San Andreas Fault!
I mentioned in a previous post, this Winter and Spring of 2011 has been very unpredictable in Southern California. We’ve gone from cold and rainy to hot and dry and back again in the stretch of just...
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Our favorite hikes of 2011
On December 30th, Jeff and I met (slightly surpassing) our goal to hike 200 miles in 2011. We have trekked through some pretty spectacular scenery this past year, all of varying difficulty,...
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Hiking Scenic San Onofre State Beach — From Nukes to Nudes!
On a hot January day (yes, it’s been a weird weather year in SoCal), we were looking for a place we could hike without suffering from heat stroke, so like we have done before, we headed for the coast!...
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Hollywood Sign and the Bat Cave in Griffith Park — A classic hike for SoCal...
One of the most iconic symbols of Southern California (and probably the most famous sign in the world) is the Hollywood Sign. Possibly the only thing more Hollywood than the Hollywood Sign is the...
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Charging up San Juan Hill — The Highest Point in Chino Hills State Park
If you live in Southern California, it is amazing how many hiking opportunities there are right in our backyard. Even aside from the obvious options in the Angeles National Forest or the Cleveland...
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Lost Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park — The Longest Day Hike in the Park
Before our recent trip to Joshua Tree National Park, I did my usual amount of geeking out over all the various write-ups of the Park and looking for good/great hikes and sights we needed to catch on...
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