santa monica mountains

Life returns after the Palisades DEI Fire ( )

Electing and hiring people based on identity rather than job qualifications turns out to have been a bad decision.

Griffith Park 12 Peaks Challenge ( )

Most of the "peaks" are just bumps on a large ridge, but there were a dozen of them so...

Mishe Mokwa: Tri-Peaks*, Exchange, Boney*, and Sandstone ( )

What is that, a railway? And, what's with the asterisks?

All will be explained!

Scrambling to Big Dome ( )

I came back for more of the Upper Cabin trail but this time I took a rougher route up.

Upper Cabin trail (Santa Monica Mountains) ( )

These are pictures and a video from the "Satwiwa Loop and Upper Cabin Trail" (link) on the western edg

Vanalden "Cave" ( )

The Tarzana area of Los Angeles hosts a geological feature known as the Vanalden "Cave". I'd heard about it but never bothered to visit until now. Getting to it was OK, even if the "cave" wasn't.

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