Alright step 1: More Hiking!
This spring has already be awesome and I can not wait for a long summer of new hikes.
I can't wait and thought has me wanting to hike every day, but right now I am nice and sore from two days of new adventures, Fossil Trail and Jackson Falls. Yeah, yeah I know where are those at.
Fossil Trail is part of Old Boney Trail that links Danielson Fire Road to Sycamore Canyon Trail. So I know part of the trail but it was nice to try something new. The wild flowers are absolutely insane, but I decided to only show one here and it is the Golden Poppy.
Well it is not called Fossil Trail for cave paints. (another hike too!) The are several rocks right in the middle of the trail that have absolutely pristine fossils of shells; they look like Scallop shells.
Well that was Saturday and on Sunday I did an old faithful... Punch Bowls. Gotta say it has even got worse than in high school with all the trash and graffiti. No locals 'hanging out' though while I was up. The goal was not the pools but a bit further up the Santa Paula Canyon to Jackson Falls.
This was a good hike to start the real training. Took my brother's family dog, aka 'Todd', for the trek. The Trail has really taken a beating; the slide on the fire road a few years ago is impressive.
Of course I am not going to hike all the way up passed Punch Bowls without stopping by. No I did not jump... it took a bit just to stand over to take this! And beside the trail going up is the same for the rest of the pools.
The canyon has some spectacular views; this one, is just above the last pool of Punch Bowl. The trail quickly climbs up the western side of the stream and presents you this awesome canyon wall. Jackson Falls is hidden around the next bend and the views only get better.
Get out and enjoy the "global warming"!
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