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| Hiking | 7.92 Miles |
1,704 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.92 Miles | 3 Hrs 28 Mns | | 2.36 mph |
| 1,704 ft AEG | 7 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | Found a few hikes in my old phone that never got posted..
This area had burned in the Palisades Fire just a few days earlier, and I wanted to see the fire damage. There was no fire damage at the beginning of the trail. The first sign of fire was around the fork to the waterfall trail. Beyond that there were some burned areas along the trail. Once up on the ridge the fire are could be seen to the East in areas that are not really accessible due to step terrain and heavy dense chaparral.
Between Trippet Ranch and Eagle Rock I saw a lot of burned areas. Kudos to the fire fighters for stopping the fire before it got to the houses in Topanga Canyon!
Addendum: I forgot to write about the most amazing thing that happened on this hike. On the way back I was thinking about some deer I saw in the area a couple years ago and was looking around to see if I could find them again. When I am almost back at the trail head I hear this loud CRASH! and then a moment later another CRASH! Something heaving is crashing through the chapparal. I froze in my tracks and all of a sudden two large deer land on the trail just ahead of me, then leap into the overgrown chapparal off the trail making a loud CRASH! They leap and crashes through the brush a couple more times and reach the dry stream bed and then run off quietly. I guess they heard me coming and decided they wanted to be in the stream bed to get away from me. I have never heard loud chrashes like that, and between the sudden loud sound and deer going full speed towards me just a few yards away left my heart pounding. I wish I could have gotten a picture or video, but there was no time for that. One thing is for sure is that those deer must have tough skin! If I somehow jumped into that thick underbrush crashing through the bushes and branches I would be badly cut up if not impaled. Anyway that was a very cool and exciting thing to see. |
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