Electing and hiring people based on identity rather than job qualifications turns out to have been a bad decision.
DEI is nothing more than the new name for affirmative action, something California voters have rejected via Proposition 209 (from 1996) and Proposition 16 (from the year 2000).
Most of the "peaks" are just bumps on a large ridge, but there were a dozen of them so...
Due to one reason or the other, my last real peakbag was Mt Bliss. I'd wanted to do a DPS peak on the Mecca Hills trip, but that didn't work out. Then I had the failures and the weekend after that my car was in the shop.
What is that, a railway? And, what's with the asterisks?
All will be explained!
After going to Big Dome last week, this time I continued my rambles in the Santa Monica Mountains by taking the "Mishe Mokwa to Tri-Peaks and Sandstone Peak" route (link).
The Mishe Mokwa trail branches off from the trail that goes to Sandstone Peak, and it shortly goes through a canyon with some climbing activity.
I came back for more of the Upper Cabin trail but this time I took a rougher route up. The route I took is here, but I did the loop portion in the reverse order.
These are pictures and a video from the "Satwiwa Loop and Upper Cabin Trail" (link) on the western edge of the Santa Monica Mountains. The first part of the trail - the Old Cabin Trail - is a joggable Class 1 trail. That trail ends at the remains of the old cabin and the Danielson monument, which commemorates the man whose land became part of Point Mugu State Park and the neighboring NPS property.
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. And, yes, I'm going to keep up the scare quotes.
I knew going in that the "cave" wasn't much and that it was defaced with graffiti, but I was even more disappointed when I got there. It's basically an overhang with a few holes in it, and it's impossible to get a picture that doesn't have spray paint in it.