Sycamore Canyon Hike - after days of rain

It has been awhile since I did some hiking. During the recent rains that we had here in Ventura, I considered doing a rain - hike, just to see how miserable it would be. Instead, I went today, which was the first full day of non-rain in several days. Normal place, Point Mugu State Park (Sycamore Canyon). Maybe one of these day's I'll take a close look at the trees, after all, these are Sycamore's.

So, the hike took me down Danielson Fire Road to the intersection with the Upper Sycamore Trail. Then, down the Upper Sycamore Trail to the paved Sycamore Fire Road, then up that Fire Road back to the the parking lot. This time, I took no backpack. Instead, a plastic shopping bag with a banana, granola bar, two waters and a wind breaker. Took along the GPS too.

So as with past hikes, I was sure to reset the GPS so to get good readings along the way. So, this turned out to be a four mile hike that took 1 hour 30 minutes. Really not that bad for time or physical effort. With the rains, the little stream at the valley floor (which was dry last time I did this in October) was flowing fairly nice. It was not a raging torrent of rapids. There were several water crossings and I did end up getting my feet wet. Obviously, there was little dust and it was very moist. Made the trip quite nice.

I'll be sure to do this one again sometime soon.