Took a three day weekend to my advantage and ran up to the Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains north of Malibu, CA. Its really a dayhiking trail but the Backbone is just 60 miles of dayhiking trails stitched together, and it’s a good ol’ time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNk-5Je9ikg
I took a walk up Santa Ynez canyon up to the Musch campground on a rainy Saturday afternoon. The next day I hiked up to the Topanga overlook via the Hondo Canyon Trail and then turned around and came back for another night at Musch, a really nice campground there in Topanga State Park.
I’m new to backpacking but I have gotten a lot lighter thanks to the forums here, I was carrying an Ohm backpack with a Lunar Solo and some 20deg REI sleeping bag I got at a used gear swap. Thanks for coming along with me on the trip. My next goal is to lighten my clothing and cooking setups, because one thing I learned on this trip is that cotton is seriously the worst thing you can wear when it’s raining out.
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