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Easter morning hike. It is a beautiful, clear day. Only a little hazy looking out towards Palos Verdes. The air temperature was pleasantly cool. Took the ridge trail up to where it meets the canyon trail, then took the steep unofficial trail up to the top of the ridge line a little below Skull Rock. Lots of people on the trail this morning. Just before the top of the ridge trail someone had spotted a little rattlesnake and a woman wasn't letting anyone go past. She freaked a little when a guy started walking toward where the snake had disappeared into the bushes, but he calmed her down saying "It's OK, I have a PhD in herpetology." First time I ever heard anyone use that line! Snake was long gone. Later I saw the woman a few more times warning everyone she passed on the trail to look out for the snake that she saw. Took the canyon trail back down. Saw two newts in the pool upstream of the bridge lazily swimming around, and two just below the bridge mating. Lots of yellow wildflowers along the ridge trail, not so much in the canyon.

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[ checklist ] California Newt Water Strider Western Fence Lizard Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Wildflowers Observation Moderate
Lots of different yellow flowers and a few other colors too along the ridge trail.

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Feb 05 2017

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Temescal Ridge Trail

Los Angeles, CA

Temescal Ridge Trail

Los Angeles, CA

Hiking		Feb 05 2017
		astrobrewer • Triplogs 196

Hiking	8.53 Miles	2,092 AEG

Hiking	8.53 Miles	3 Hrs 23 Mns	2.53 mph
	2,092 ft AEG	1 Min Break

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I wanted to go all the way to the hub junction, but got off to a late start and wanted to get back for the start of the Super Bowl. First thing I noticed at the start of the hike was that there was water flowing from the stream into the storm drain near Sunset Blvd. That's something that I haven't seen in many many years. The ground was damp and I was concerned that the trail might be a big muddy slip and slide like it was last fall when I hiked it. That time I had my trekking poles and even so had a hard time staying on my feet on some parts of the trail. But it wasn't bad this time. There was none of the usual dust and loose dirt on the trail, and that made it much nicer to walk on. There were a couple muddy spots along the way, but they were no problem.

It was an overcast day, and the trail went up into the clouds past Skull Rock which was cool (both visually and temperature wise). As usual the hike up Temescal Ridge trail had lots of people up to Skull Rock, and after that hardly anyone. The trail sign at the junction of the Temescal Fire Road and the Trailer Canyon Fire Roadshowed 2.1 miles to the Hub and 3.9 miles back to Sunset. I didn't have time to make it to the Hub so that was my turn around point.

On the way down I took the Temescal Canyon Trail so I could check out the waterfall. I could hear the waterfall from a distance as I approached it which was really cool. It was flowing very nicely as expected and there were a lot of people at the bridge commenting on how long it's been since they've seen that much water. I stopped and took a few photos before continuing the rest of the way. All in all a great hike.

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Wildflowers Observation Light
Lots of clusters of little white flowers on bushes all over the hills, predominantly on the South facing slopes.

	Temescal Canyon	Light flow	Light flow
	Waterfall was running pretty well. Stream had water all the way down to Sunset Blvd. Map marker for this water source indicates storm drain exit at beach which I didn't see myself, but since water was flowing into the storm drain at Sunset it should be flowing out at the beach.

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Nov 25 2016

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Temescal to Radio Tower, CA

Hiking		Nov 25 2016
		astrobrewer • Triplogs 196

Hiking	7.62 Miles	1,907 AEG

Hiking	7.62 Miles	3 Hrs 16 Mns	2.39 mph
	1,907 ft AEG	5 Mns Break

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Started out going up Temescal Ridge trail on a beautiful, clear morning. Lots of people out hiking on Black Friday. Much better than shopping! Instead of heading back down I continued on to Skull Rock where there were a lot of people sitting out on the rocks. I kept going thinking of maybe making it all the way to the Hub, but my legs were getting really tired. I went as far as the radio tower just before the junction with the Trailer Canyon fire road and rested there for a few minutes. I went back via Temescal Canyon trail. There was very little water at the waterfall again, which isn't surprising this time of year. My legs felt pretty spent by the time I got down and I was glad that I turned around when I did. I'll take hiking over shopping any day.

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Jul 24 2016

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Temescal Ridge Trail

Los Angeles, CA

Temescal Ridge Trail

Los Angeles, CA

Run/Jog		Jul 24 2016
		Booneman • Triplogs 4,634

Run/Jog	10.50 Miles	2,633 AEG

Run/Jog	10.50 Miles	1 Hour 45 Mns	6.00 mph
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I was in Santa Monica so I had to hit the trails. I thought it would be awesome to run from the beach to a peak, so I parked at Will Rogers Beach, ran up Temescal Canyon Road to the park and up the Temescal Ridge Trail and back. Then I dove in the ocean to cool down and complete my run.

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Apr 08 2016

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Temescal Ridge-Canyon Loop, CA

Hiking		Apr 08 2016
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Hiking	4.28 Miles	1,138 AEG

Hiking	4.28 Miles	2 Hrs 17 Mns	2.21 mph
	1,138 ft AEG	21 Mns Break

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After a drizzly morning it looked like the rain was going to stop so I decided to hike up Temescal Ridge and return via Temescal Canyon to check out the waterfall to see if it was flowing. There were no views of anything because the whole area was covered in fog. But the temperature was cool and very good for hiking.

This was my first hike using my new trekking poles and I was glad that I had them because the steep sections of the trail were very slippery. I saw many boot-print slide marks on the steep sections. I would have had to slow way down on the steep parts and probably would have ended up on my pumpkin in the mud anyway. So poles are good. I need more practice using them, but this was a good check out hike.

On my way down the Temescal Canyon trail I stopped at the bridge. There was barely a trickle at the waterfall, but there was water in the pond at the base of the fall. Something caught my eye in the water and I climbed down from the bridge for a closer look. I was glad I had poles because I had to get up a very steep and slipper rock under the bridge to get to the pond and wouldn't have made it without the poles. There were many many salamanders in the pond. They were brown and blended in with the color of the bottom so they weren't obvious at first, but as I looked closely I saw dozens of them everywhere. There were also little orange goldfish in the deeper section of the pond.

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