Figueroa Mountain pictures and videos


At the park in Los Olivos it was COLD

Leaving the park at 6:45 AM

1 water before the real mountain

The bridge of pain; Never Again hill is just around the corner

1/4 way up Never Again hill. The pickup there moved just before I got there

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At the 1/2 way point of 1st climb

MOVIE: Always a Never Again speech LOL

At the top of Never Again, and it was still cold

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But later the sun was out and the day was quickly warming up

MOVIE: Sun out, sheading a few clothes

Just me and the mountain, 1 of only a few cars

MOVIE: Day has warmed up, almost enjoyable

Most of the road has lots of open spaces

Start of climb to Ranger Station, with red arrow pointing to where I have been

Retrived water from where I hid in rocks

last section before lunch break at Ranger Station

I used the sign wall as my lunch table

This section is usually covered in poppies; but not this year

This is the false top. Looks like top. Starts down, but it soon turns back and climbs well above this point

I usually have an extended break at this log, but since someone was already there, I retrieved my hidden water and continued on

My faviorate gate. It is 1 mile from the top

Movie: Always a gate speech LOL

I retrieved hidden water at top and was ready for super down hill action

This was supposed to be the start of 30 minutes of exciting down hill video; but for some unknown reason the video camera just quit

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Picture I took on hiding water day. There were 3 places like this where water crossed the road during the time the video camera decided to stop.

The video camera started again when I was on the 3 mile dirt road section that was a lot roughfer than it looks in this picture.

The upper part of Happy Canyon road has poor ranches, and the road has more potholes than road, However…..

The lower part of the road where the rich horse ranches are, that have gates that cost more than my house, the road gets better; a lot better.

Back to the start, 8 hours & 7 minutes later. Super tired; but absolutely nothing hurts, so I guess all is good.

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After changing clothes, I only had 1 beer because I was to tired to drink another. Click here for Index


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