Revisiting Cheseboro Ridge Trail - Gentler 5 miles, 800'

Since our visit here in March, the hills above Calabasas have become lush, brilliant green, and bright yellow with mustard, benefitting from the recent rains. This out-and-back hike offers a little-used access route to Cheseboro Ridge, which runs above our typical Sheep Corral hike. A combination of graded gravel and single-track trail ascends steadily to a high point with great visibility to Bell Canyon, Hidden Hills, Cheseboro Canyon, and Mount Boney in the distance. The wildflowers are in bloom, if you can shove aside the mustard far enough to see them. Last year's patches of calabash gourds are scattered across the hillsides.

Lunch afterwards will be at the restaurants in the northwest corner of the little strip mall at Agoura Road and Las Virgenes, including Mediterranean Pita Grill and Sharky's.

DIRECTIONS

The Morrison Ranch Road Trailhead is NOT at the north end of Las Virgenes, but rather, only 6/10 mile north of the 101 interchange, a half-mile north of the fire station, and at the northern end of a white fence. Set your GPS for 5526 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas. If you've got to Thousand Oaks Boulevard, you've gone too far. Look for my Prius on the west side of the street. You may need to do a legal U-turn to park nearest the trailhead.

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The hike hosts are volunteers and not responsible for the group. Safety should be a priority for everyone in the group. Please treat this meet-up as hiking with a group of friends. If you become fatigued and unable to continue the hike, it is expected you will advise the hike host of this and return to our starting point on your own. If you are able to proceed, it is expected that you will maintain line of sight with other members of the group at all times and help to promote the group’s safety and fitness goals.

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• Sorry, no dogs.
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