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  • 🎉🥂15th Anniversary Hike and Potluck +BBQ! 🫕🍗

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    Oak Canyon Community Park - HWD 5600 Hollytree Drive, Oak Park, CA, US

    Wow! Its our 15th anniversary. Let's celebrate with a PotLuck & BBQ at Oak Canyon Community Park -- we'll do a hike also -- and reminisce about the past 1.5 decades and plan for the next. Oak Canyon Community Park is a beautiful, 60-acre park with sandstone cliffs and a year-round creek. The park has […]

  • O’Melveny Park — Mission Point — Bee Canyon Loop

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    O'Melveny Park - HWD 17300 Sesnon Blvd, Granada Hills, ca, US

    ***O’Melveny Park*** spreads over 672 acres, second on the list of largest parks within the City of Los Angeles, right after Griffith Park. Noted for its picture-perfect picnic grounds with white fences and towering eucalyptus trees, O’Melveny Park also challenges hikers with several miles of steep, backcountry fire roads and primitive trails. Our (https://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=ale&ti=10097&pri=2097&pw=245133&mi=10248&url=http%3A%2F%2Frei.com%2Fh%2Fcamping-and-hiking) here […]

  • 🏪🛍️ Extra 20% Off at REI – Even at the Outlet Store 😂

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    **Only a couple days left for this sale. Click below for discount and details:** (https://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=ml&ti=264573&pw=245133) (Ignore Meetup times. Sale is ongoing until 3/28) And don't forget about the (https://www.hikingwithdean.com/rei/) where I have curated REI items that are at least 50% off: https://www.hikingwithdean.com/rei/

  • HWD Ranch – Mormon Canyon Loop

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    Misty Hollow Ranch - HWD 12080 Browns Canyon Rd, Chatsworth, ca, US

    Another HWD Original! The HWD Ranch is located within the stunning Hidden Creeks parkland near the confluence of Browns Creek and Mormon Creek. The parkland provides a key migration corridor and perennial water source to a full complement of large mammals including black bear, mountain lion, mule deer, bobcat, American badger, grey fox, long-tailed weasel, […]

  • VIP Hike: Upper Las Virgenes – Mt. Basura Loop

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    Somewhere in Calabasas See hike description
    7 Hikers going

    Details Date: Saturday April 9 Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm   Our hike will consist of traveling along the lessor used trails connecting the underbelly of Las Virgenes and Cheseboro Canyons. This will include traveling on overgrown and unmaintained trails. The star of this hike is Mount Basura, known for its year-round snow-less skiing. […]

  • Natoma Loop – Vanalden Caves – Vanalden Vista

    Natoma Loop Trail 4164 Natoma Ave, Woodland Hills

    The **Natoma Loop Trail** is a 1.7 mile lightly trafficked loop located in Woodland Hills. But anything less than a couple miles is not worth getting up for so we’ll extend the loop into the cool side of Mulholland and ramble about a network of little-used trails. We'll visit the **Vanalden Caves** and take a […]

  • Hill Canyon and the Western Plateau Loop

    Conejo Canyons Trail Head 2010 Conejo Center Dr, Thousand Oaks, CA, US

    We began hiking and exploring this area in 2008 when we were the original "Weekday Hikers." At that time there was a system of old use trails known mainly only to a few local equestrians. It soon became a favorite and regular hiking location for us. A few years later, open space agencies and other […]

  • 39th Annual Santa Monica Mountains Trail Days – Sycamore Canyon

    4122 W. Potrero Road 4122 W. Potrero Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA, US

    **How does (optional) free camping at the Danielson Ranch in Point Mugu State Park, a barbecue dinner, coffee & bagels in the mornings and the chance to win one of a few dozen raffle prizes - in exchange for some much needed work on our trails, sound?** The HWD trail crew will be springing into […]

  • Gaviota Peak, Hot Spring Loop and Beyond (with Camping Option)

    Gaviota Park Boundary Gaviota Park Boundary, California, CA, US

    **Gaviota Peak**, at 2,458 feet, offers eye-popping views up and down the coast. You can look east clear across **Santa Barbara**, and west across Lompoc toward Point Conception. In between is vast sea adorned by Channel Islands that hover on the horizon. To the north, gentle rolling hills frame the fertile Santa Ynez Valley. We'll […]

 

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