Nature Trail & Tarantula Hill | Easy-Mod (3mi | 450’) – Thousand Oaks

Conejo Valley Botanical Garden West Gainsborough Road 350, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States

Park at the botnaical gardens lot (by the adventure gardens/baseball field) We will meet by the restrooms (note these are usually locked) We will do the garden mile loop, and a little zig zag, then take the secret tunnel trail and to go under the road and up the hill trail. Should be about 3...

Escondido Falls Trail | MODERATE (3.6 mi | 530’) -Malibu

Winding Way Parking Lot California 1 27807, Malibu, CA, United States

Should be gorgeous after all this rain! Poles suggested to help manuever several tricky water crossings. Length 3.7 mi Elevation gain 534 ft Route Type Out & back Enjoy this 3.7-mile out-and-back trail near Malibu, California. Generally considered amoderately challenging route, it takes an average of 1 h 37 min to complete. The parking area...

Chumash Trail for Slow Pokes

3200 Flanagan Dr Flanagan Drive 3200, Simi Valley, CA, United States

Let's do this again! For this week, we'll keep it at 3 miles because Lisa is and has been off a while and I'm just back from fighting a cold. This is a slow-poke (fit beginner/intermediate) hike at about 3.0 miles with an elevation gain of 670'. The gain is a continuous steady climb, and...

Wendy Lollipop – includes easy option

4128 Potrero Rd Potrero Road 4128, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States

4.6 miles, 1000' gain, Easy Intermediate Easier Option - 2.7 miles, 320' gain Many have gotten lost relying on GPS. This is the Wendy Trailhead, where S. Wendy Dr. ends at Potrero Rd. Heading out, we cross a creek, turn right at the split, then Turn right at the dead end. We regroup at the...

Wednesday Evening Hike: Aliso Canyon

Snyder Trailhead , Santa Barbara, ca Snyder Trail, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This week: Aliso Cyn Loop incl Upper Oso. We will walk the road and through Sage Hill campground to avoid $10 parking fee (cheapskate). Then we walk the lovely Aliso Cyn interpretive trail which leads to the climb up out of the valley. Then we drop down to Upper Oso campground, which is closed and...

Chumash Thanksgiving hike

Chumash Trail Chumash Trail, Simi Valley, CA, United States

Chumash trail on Nov 14, 2024. Thank you Jimbo For those who might want to burn off some over indulgence or would just rather hike than eat. This is for you. If no one registers by 4pm the hike will be cancelled. WhereAmEye (Tall Mark) has been doing this hike up the Chumash Trail in...

San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct → Ojai Jail → Lake Casitas

Museum of Ventura County East Main Street 100, Ventura, CA, United States

This won't be your usual Ojai ride. Along the way to Ojai, on a detour off the paved Ojai Ventura River Parkway Trail, we will be viewing some of the remaining artifacts of the San Buenaventura Mission aqueduct. We'll have a picnic lunch in Ojai and return via a swing by Lake Casitas and Santa...

Wendy Trailhead to Olympia Vista – Potluck Hike

4128 Potrero Rd Potrero Road 4128, Thousand Oaks, CA, United States

5.0 miles, 640' gain, Easy Intermediate Starting at the Wendy trailhead we hike about 1/4 mile and take the left fork up the Windmill Trail, a steep, but short climb (0.1 miles, 100 ft gain). At the top of this steep climb we'll take the right fork down the Wendy-Satwiwa Connector into the grasslands for...

Sunday 4pm – Hike with a possible sunset on Rocky Peak Trail

Rocky Peak Park Rocky Peak Road, Santa Susana, CA, United States

Sunset on the Rocky Peak trail Oct 2023. Thank you Teka, WhereAmEye (Tall Mark) has been doing this hike in every Sunday afternoon for over 20 years, and he'll be leading this event as long as he keeps getting large annual hike-organizer pay raises. This hike always happens, even when it rains, snows, hails, or...

Mt. McCoy

Clinicas Del Camino Real Inc - Madera Madera Road 1424, Simi Valley, CA, United States

Easy Intermediate, 3 miles, 600' gain Easier Option: 2.4 mi, 530' gain. 5 Washburn St, Simi Valley, CA 93065 We'll meet in the parking lot at the northeast corner of Madera and Royal, just south of the Donut Delite, on the east side of the Clinicas office. We'll walk from there to the trailhead at...