Four Dudes Hiking this time heads to the Channel Islands. This has been on our list for a while. We camped on Santa Cruz Island at the Scorpion Campground.
We took a boat out there by Island Packers. It is about 1 hour and 15 minutes to get there. On the way there we saw a humpback whale.
Once there we got set up, most of the guys napped. Then a few of us when on a hike up to the scorpion bay hike that was cool.
That first night we did a group meal of carne asada burrito bowls/fajitas.
The second day we took a hike to Smugglers Cove and ate lunch there. That was a good place with a few tables on the beach.
That night i made thai green curry. Richard made a chicken caserole that looked awesome.
The third day we took a hike up to High Mount. It was very exposed, very steep, and very hot and dry. But we made it and thats awesome.
On the boat ride back, we saw a group of dolphins that swam with the boat for a while.
All in all a great trip.
this was white ledge campground, hiked up sisar canyon trail in Ojai to white ledge campground. spent two days there, it was pretty amazing.
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/sisar-canyon-road-to-white-ledge-campground
This was a 3 night trip. We spent one night at a campground in mammoth at new shady rest campground. The next day we drove to the mammoth adventure center and had to take the bus up the hill to agnew medows. it was a $15 round trip ticket for the bus. from there we hiked up the river trail to 1000 island lake. it was a fairly exhausting trail. we spent two nights in this amazing place and hiked down along the same trail to make sure that we were able to get copper top bbq for lunch.
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/explore/map/map-june-20-2024-c7a2af5?p=-1&sh=wnoi1b
West Fork bikepacking-kind of
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/west-fork-national-scenic-bikeway?sh=wnoi1b
family backpacking to manzana creek. very hot and lots of bugs
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/california/coldwater-camp-los-padres-nf
jennie lakes
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/california/jennie-lake
switzer falls
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/switzer-falls-and-bear-canyon-camp-via-gabrelino-trail
franklin lake
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/franklin-lakes-trail
weird hot springss
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/california/sespe-river-trail-to-willett-hot-springs
rancheria falls
Alltrails: https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/california/rancheria-falls-trail--5
At the tail ends of covid, we head up to black jack campground and back
