Escondido Falls Hike

We went hiking this past sunday at Escondido Falls, in Malibu. Pretty easy hike, with some nice scenery. The drive out to Malibu on Pacific Coast Highway is nice, too. It made me like southern california for a bit.

We took a wrong turn early on and ended up walking around rich people's houses. Seriously huge yards:


We turned around and found the right trail




























Scary spider


Small waterfall at the top. There was apparently another waterfall at the top that was more impressive and had swinging ropes, but Toby, Nicole, and I stayed behind while the others went to check it out. I wasn't too sure Toby could pull off the steeper climbing. She seemed to enjoy the hike, though.




























The water smelled kind of sulfurous, but it was pretty. This is now my desktop image at work:






















































































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Hiking

This weekend I hiked up to Mission Point, the first hike I've been on in a while. It was nice and short, though I'll cop to feeling it in my legs this morning. Saw some burnt trees and some flowers in bloom. On the way down, some guy told us to watch out for "a coyote with snakes," but we had no such luck.

Yellow flower with a bee


Purple flower (I know, I'm like the flower expert or something)

Burnt trees, valley, and I think the San Gabriels

more flowery goodness


Good times hiking, and kind of caught up with some friends. I've got some sketches to post, too, but I'll wait to fight with photoshop later. Sleep first.