SoCal Road Trip

One of my favorite sorts of rides are point to point rides, particularly where I get to plan them out or if it’s a fairly unique route connecting a bunch of disparate trails. The last day of our January trip to Southern California was one of those rides. We were staying at my uncle’s house in Westlake Village and I’d scouted out some routes up along the ridge-line in the previous couple days which led up to Los Robles trail. So on the last day there, I pedaled up to Los Robles trail and pedaled most of it’s length to a short short connecting trail that led to Sycamore Canyon Trail and meet Fiona at the beach. The total ride was about 26 miles long with about 3700 feet of climbing. There there was a fair amount of just connecting stuff up with dirt roads, there was a fair amount of single track and it was a ton of fun with lots of great views and a really epic ending down at the beach along highway 1.

 

I got to the top of Sycamore Canyon right as the sun was setting.
I got to the top of Sycamore Canyon right as the sun was setting.
Ended the ride at Sycamore Beach right as the last rays of the sun were sinking beneath the waves.
Ended the ride at Sycamore Beach right as the last rays of the sun were sinking beneath the waves.