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Los Padres National Forest, along the road to Dough Flats
Floyd on the trail
Ditto
Another scene
Scenes from Mugu State Park:
Floyd checking out the rocks
Sycamore Canyon Trail
Start of the Scenic Trail
Scene from the top of the loop
Coming back down towards the main fire road
Looking back
Back at the bottom
Start of the La Jolla Canyon Trail
Riparian area
Along the trail
Some guy trying to retrieve his golf balls without getting clobbered by the waves...
Fascinating cut in the mountain showing the lifted layers
More scenes within Los Padres National Forest:
We started bright and early at the south end of Highway 33 and stopped every two miles to look and listen...
Climbing the chaparral-carpeted hills, you can see where we just came up!
We're starting to get a few scraggly trees...
Pretty rocks around Rose Valley
Heading on...
Floyd checks out a memorial set up for a young man killed in a car crash.
Heading up the grade...
Near the summit, with Lockwood Valley in the distance.
Sage meadow on the downslope...
Pinyon sage habitat
Checking the cliffs for condors!
Mini-monsoon
Strangely-eroded cliff
More scenes...
Scenes of the recent fires
Regrowth from the ashes!
Lockwood Valley
Along Lockwood Valley Road
Where there used to be a campground, I guess...
Hungry Valley ORV Area
Gold Hill Road runs through Hungry Valley and up into the Los Padres NF
Heading up the mountain
There's snow in the higher elevations!
Views as we head up
They apparently had a horrific fire up here in the last year or so...
Spaceship-like rain cloud in the distance
The Beaches...
The lagoon near McGrath State Beach
Coots chow down on the green stuff at the Ventura Sewer Ponds