Hondo Canyon, Fossile Ridge & Topanga Lookout

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/6/6/event_16828518.jpegAnother spectacular section of the Backbone Trail this hike includes staggering views of pink colored sedimentary rock formations, beautifully shaded live oak, streams and a sloping green meadow. At the top we will see many fossils in the sandstone

This is a moderate-to-strenuous 9 mile hike with over 1500 ft elevation gain

Highlights include the sedimentary rock formations known as the Sespe Formation, Hondo canyon's pink "V" gourge (we'll take a short side-trip into the gorge), Topanga Lookout and the Bragg home in the Bay Tree Woodland. (Paul C. Bragg was a pioneer in the health food movement in California. He was the inspiration and teacher for later healthy living teachers like Jack LaLanne. His abandoned vacation cabin was here until 1993 when it burned).

Directions:

Meet at backbone trailhead on south side of Old Topanga Road, 1/4 mile west of Topanga Canyon. Trailhead parking is on south side of street. There some additional parking in small turnouts along Old Topanga

There will be a post hike lunch at Pat's Topanga Grill. BYOB