Sunday Morning Hike With Hiker And My Brother Keith

My brother Keith was visiting Hiker and me last weekend. On Sunday, we did a 2 mile hike in Elsmere Canyon in the Santa Clarita Valley.

We took the Creek Trail. There is no water in the creek because we have not had any rain for a long time, but there is still some really cool scenery in this canyon.

There are groves of coastal oak trees and some really fantastic cliffs that run across the southwest side of the canyon.

We noticed a huge cave up on one of the cliffs, but there was no way to climb up there.

Here is me and Hiker along the trail

Here is my brother Keith standing in front of some gigantic rocks that had falling down the mountain-side

The Creek Trail is a very easy trail to hike. The Loop Trail that goes up the mountain is very narrow land very steep.

Below is a link with more information about the Elsmere Canyon:

Hike Santa Clarita - Elsmere Canyon

Three Hikes

Christmas week of 2013 was beautiful here in Southern California. Our temperatures were in the mid 70s and the was a stiff breeze blowing so the air was crystal clear and the sky was dark blue.

Hiker and I took three hikes during the week.

Our first hike on Monday was at Vasquez rocks:

Our second hike was on Wednesday, Christmas Day when we went to Elsmere Canyon:

Our third hike was on Thursday. This time we hiked in Towsley Canyon:

Where The Heck Is The Trail?

This morning, my friend Linda and I decided to hike a trail that neither of us had ever hiked before. I went online and found other hikers who had been in Elsmere Canyon and asked them exactly how to get to this trail and a couple of people sent me directions and then instructed me on "how to find the trail" from the trail head. We followed the instructions and at first it appeared that we had found the trail and off we went through the canyon, through a few oak groves and across dry creek beds, but then the trail suddenly ended. I had read that the trail went 7 miles in and we had only gone in about 1 mile, so we figured we must have taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way. We found some fire roads that were very steep, but we had not been out hiking for so long that we were not really in shape to climb those steep hills. We finally just gave up and turned around and headed back to the car. We still got a pretty good workout though.

Linda following me up the trail

A small oak grove

Linda and me