Tag: los padres national forest
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Gridley Canyon Service
In the waning days of 2014, the rather impressive rains that inundated California’s Central Coast after a long spell of virtually no precipitation were a welcome respite for our parched backcountry. But with those rains of course came some problems (most notably the mudslides in the Springs Fire area in Camarillo Springs and along the…
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Hiking and Backpacking Santa Barbara and Ventura Errata
To accompany the release of the revised first edition of Hiking and Backpacking Santa Barbara and Ventura, I’m happy to also offer a downloadable pdf of the revision’s changes as well as additional errata/updates that may be of interest to anybody who uses the guide. You can download the errata here. As always, I invite…
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Revised First Edition
Release the Hounds! Five years ago this past September, the RSO and I grabbed the uber-hund and headed out into the Los Padres to document just about every route in the Ojai, Santa Barbara, and Mt. Pinos districts. We made a lot of new friends and gained some new hiking pals along the way, and after…
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Dungeons of Maptitude Review No. 5: Harrison’s 2014 Sespe Wilderness
Earlier this year, backcountry cartography stalwart Tom Harrison released his revised Sespe Wilderness Trail Map, updated for 2014. For those who tread the Sespe Wilderness and its immediate environs with any frequency, the Harrison map is the only area map worth having in your kit.
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National Public Lands Day: Ortega Trail and Horseshoe Hill
Late in coming, I know, but following is the short account of a service project I led for the Los Padres Forest Association this past National Public Lands Day (weekend) on September 28th. The official USFS press release read thusly: A work crew 72 volunteers deep descended on Wheeler Gorge Visitor Center, the lower Ortega…
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Chumash Service
The latest issue of the Condor Call, the local Sierra Club newsletter, includes a short article about a service project fellow VWRs Kim Coakley and Bardley Smith and I led this past Spring in the Chumash Wilderness. (Read it here.) So naturally, you must wonder who did the work. Perhaps you’re asking yourself: did they…