Going to war?
Day 309: Monday September 19,
2011
Cozy Dell Trail
Where: Ojai, CA
Total Distance Today: 3.5 miles +700 feet
Directions:
From the 101 Freeway in Ventura, take the 33 North to Ojai. If you know the La Luna shortcut, great, otherwise follow the 33 North past Meiners Oaks. Only a few miles out of the residential area, you will see the Cozy Dell trail sign on your left. Park on the left. The trail is across the street on the right. If you have kids or dogs, keep them close because the cars will zoom down the roadway.
Nice shaded trail
Steady easy uphill for a little over a mile...
no resting...
look out for the rock...
about a dozen easy switchbacks
I did this less than 48 hours after my half marathon
ahh, with ease...
the top, or is it...
From here, we saw the men with guns hiking up on a single track off trail. The route they took was not marked on the map but it appeared easy to follow, albeit, straight up... After enjoying the scenery from this vantage point, we continued down on the main trail. After dropping a hundred feet, it climbed back up again and met up with another side alternate high trail. My guess is that you can loop the hill to the left. The warriors were carrying snipers so Ayden and I kept low...
We turned around shortly after, which was disappointing because the trail would have intersected a dirt road in less than a quarter mile. From the 33, the road is only 1.9 miles, we probably covered 1.75 of that. However, we had to get back before sun down, it was a school night and I still had to pick up Domino. I've been leaving her with my buddy Rich who lives in Ojai; one week on, one week off. I think it's good for her because Rich was a major part of her life and I know his son appreciates it...
***REWIND:
Day 300: Saturday September 10, 2011
Above Calle Arroyo
Where: Ventura, CA
Total Distance Today: 2.5 miles +200 feet
A few months back, I hiked from my house out of the Arroyo Verde Park and into the open space. After going up and over and around through some nasty thick, I pleasantly settled down to a switchback of avocado trees. Of course, this lead to private property but beyond the fence appeared to be another hill with trees and no thistles. Well, on this day, I was in search for a legit way to trek the open space. FAILED! I refused to go down the residential driveway, but I did find a gated community of sorts up here. The driveway was fenced and concealed but the walkway was open. So, Sammi and I walked through the gate which lead to a short fire road. On the other side of the road was the Colina Vista area. There is no way to drive to this neighborhood from up here. You only other option is to drive down to foothill, around and back up again. Unfortunately, the trail portion of my walk today was only about a quarter mile total, but I did stroll the streets up here for some time in search for another public opening. In fact, I found one!! Yeah, I discovered this nearly a year ago with Alyssa when we eventually decided on a night hike at the Kimball Park Tunnel. Bottom line, there is no legit way to hike into the hills unless you are hiking out of Arroyo Verde or you know someone living up here. Still searching...
Day 301: Sunday September 11, 2011
Ventura Missionary School
Where: Ventura, CA
Total Distance Today: 2.0 miles +100 feet
***A moment of silence for the 10-Year Anniversary of the 9-11 Tragedy...
On this day, Alyssa had a soccer game and as a tribute to the disaster, I edited the game and published it to YouTube. If you are interested in watching this game, please check it out:
---Later that day, I decided to keep searching for open space access in Ventura. The Ventura Missionary School is off foothill just before Kimball. Pretty much, the fence is locked and separates you from the wild land. I tried, I found a way to wander a bit and hopped a fence. However, I cannot recommend it but at least I scratched this location off my list and hiked another day.
Day 303: Tuesday September 13, 2011
Los Robles Trail
Where: Newbury Park, CA
Total Distance Today: 8.0 miles +600 feet
***NO PICTURES!!! Today was my last big push before the upcoming half marathon. I hiked/jogged the section off Morepark Road and then to the west. I have been back here before but I never raced all the way across to the other side, until now...
Fortunately, I uploaded everything from my camera through Monday the 12th, including the Soccer Video. This information was stored on my hard drive but after my hike on Friday the 16th, I uploaded again and was going to update this blog. However, when I tried making the Soccer Video, I accidentally uninstalled my computer's registry, in addition to several other things including pictures... The mistake cost me over $200 to fix. This all happened because my new Nikon Camera was not compatible with Microsoft Movie Maker. SO FRUSTRATING!!!... Finally, I got the computer back, found a way to convert the videos and here we are now... A week behind updating the blog but still hiking...
Day 304: Wednesday September 14, 2011
Chumash Park
Where: Agoura Hills, CA
Total Distance Today: 2.0 miles +25 feet
Nothing special about this place. Just an easy going park. I took some nice pictures, but they were erased. No big deal. At this point, I just joggd about a mile and then walked a bit just to keep the legs loose in preparation for the big run on Saturday.
Day 305: Thursday September 15, 2011
Sumac Park
Where: Agoura Hills, CA
Total Distance Today: 2.0 miles +25 feet
Much like Chumash Park, Sumac is off Kanan just one block up. I had seen signs for these parks many times on my recent voyages to the open space further up the road. Between Chumash Park and Sumac, Chumash is better for kids but Sumac was better for me. After jogging the oval cement path, I wandered out of the park and discovered that this too lead to open space. First you have to cross the soccer fields. I decided to not tempt my curiosity because in just 2 days, I would be running and the last thing I needed to do was wear my legs out with a climb. --Speaking of soccer fields, Alyssa's game was at a crummy soccer field set up at the elementary school set up across the street. Why didn't they play here? These fields were in much better condition...
Day 306: Friday September 16, 2011
Morrison & Forrest Cove Parks
Where: Agoura Hills, CA
Total Distance Today: 1.5 miles +50 feet
Off of Thousand Oaks Blvd is Morrison Park. Small, but the grass is green. There is no open space access here. I crossed T.O. blvd and found Forrest Cove Park, Neat and shaded area, nice homes and there is a small section of space back here. I kept it real easy today, no jogging, just walked. The half marathon would be the next day.
****More updates later, still trying to catch up.... At least now I have pictures...
Nice view from atop Cozy Dell. I'm surprised by how many designated trails there are right near your home.
ReplyDeleteSorry about the computer problems. You might want to buy yourself a portable hard drive to back up your pictures and stuff. They've gotten crazy cheap. For about $50, you can get a "plug and play" type hard drive and back up more pictures than you can possibly take for years.
I bought a 120GB hard drive about three years ago (tiny by current standards). It's got pretty much all of the digital pictures, professional writing, and PowerPoints I've ever written, produced, or taken, and it's still less than half full. Video will eat up the memory faster, but with the lower prices and increased storage capacity, you can still save an awful lot of video for a very affordable price.
Hey Jeremy!! So bizarre!! I was looking for info on Cozy Dell Trail and reading what you wrote then at the end you mentioned Domino and Rich and even Noah and I was like "omg this is Jeremy's Blog!!" I lived with them and Domino was a part of our family too! I hope you're doing well, small world :) Best, Kate
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