santa monica mountains

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

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

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

All will be explained!

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

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.