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    Hooked on Hiking: Southern California: 50 Hiking Adventures
    Hooked on Hiking: Southern California: 50 Hiking Adventures
    Hooked on Hiking: Southern California: 50 Hiking Adventures
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    Hooked on Hiking: Southern California: 50 Hiking Adventures

    By Ann Marie Brown, Tim Lohnes, Bart Wright and Lohnes Wright

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    Each of these decks is packed with 50 hiking adventures and comes equipped with a handy clip-on carabiner for bringing cards along wherever the trail leads.

    Take a hike through Southern California's beautiful parks, forests, and more.
    Hikes include:
    Joshua Tree
    Death Valley
    Channel Islands National Park
    Kings Canyon
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateJul 23, 2013
    ISBN9781452132020
    Hooked on Hiking: Southern California: 50 Hiking Adventures
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    Ann Marie Brown

    Ann Marie Brown is the author of more than thirteen hiking guide books and is a dedicated California outdoorswoman. Brown’ s work has appeared in Sunset, VIA, Backpacker, and California magazines. She regularly writes and edits for several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and National Resources Defense Council. Brown lives in South Lake Tahoe, California.

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      Hooked on Hiking - Ann Marie Brown

      POINT MUGU STATE PARK

      DISTANCE: 5.5 miles round-trip

      HIKING TIME: 2.5 hours or overnight

      SEASON: year-round

      DIFFICULTY: moderate

      This loop in bucolic La Jolla Canyon makes a great day-hike or easy backpacking trip, with spring wildflowers and year-round coastal views. The route begins on a wide gated road at the trailhead, then climbs gently to a wet-season waterfall at 0.8 mile out. The canyon narrows as you ascend, and at 1.2 miles, go right at the fork (left will be the return of your loop) on La Jolla Valley Loop Trail. The trail levels out and meanders to a second junction, where you go left and wander past a small tule- and cattail-lined duck pond.

      Shortly beyond the pond, you’ll arrive at La Jolla Valley walk-in camp. Campsites are hidden among clumps of tall coastal sage scrub. Mariposa lilies, morning glories, monkeyflower, brodiaea, paintbrush, and blue-eyed grass surround you. From the camp, bear left on a dirt road, the continuation of La Jolla Valley Loop Trail; it soon narrows to a double-track path through the grass. Continue straight past the next few junctions to finish out your loop where the path rejoins La Jolla Canyon Trail. Go right to head back to your car.

      From U.S. 101 in Agoura Hills, exit at Kanan Rd. and drive 12.5 miles to Hwy. 1/Pacific Coast Hwy. on the Malibu coast. Turn west (right) and drive 14.8 miles to the La Jolla Canyon trailhead parking area on the right (1.0 mile west of Big Sycamore Canyon Campground).

      ESCONDIDO CANYON NATURAL AREA

      DISTANCE: 4.2 miles round-trip

      HIKING TIME: 2.0 hours

      SEASON: year-round

      DIFFICULTY: easy

      The highest waterfall in the Santa Monica Mountains is accessible on this short and easy hike. Start at the Winding Way parking lot, just off Pacific Coast Hwy. It’s 1.0 mile on this paved road past fancy Malibu homes to the actual trailhead, but the payoff is a charming sylvan footpath in Escondido Canyon. At the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy sign, veer left, heading into the canyon.

      Walk upstream, ignoring side trails and keeping close to the creek, which you’ll cross a half-dozen times. The level path is mostly shaded by leafy sycamore trees.

      At 1.5 miles, you’ll spy the waterfall in the distance, tucked into a box canyon. Fifteen minutes later you’ll be standing at the base of the lower tier of Escondido Canyon’s limestone fall, admiring the moss and horsetail ferns. A couple of rope swings hang from a sycamore tree. The rotten-egg odor is sulfur from the nearby spring.

      If you’re adventurous, don’t stop here. That big cataract you saw a half mile back is accessible by scrambling up a trail on the right side of the falls. A cautious 15-minute ascent will get you to the base of this 150-foot limestone tier. To return to your car, retrace your

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