Getting ready to go to the French Alps in a week. Which explains all the hiking I’ve been doing lately. Trying to get into shape, I need to remind myself that staying in shape after the trip will also be important.
Tried to go out early, but it wasn’t early enough. Our goal was the Nike Station that I shared from afar a few months ago. So up to the top of Reseda Blvd we went, here stopping and looking back down into the valley.
I don’t know when this became a state park, or if it always was, when they put up this fancy sign. 
Our walk took us east on dirt Mulholland. Mulholland Drive starts in the Hollywood Hills and goes all the way to the ocean. Well part of it does, the part called Mulholland Highway. For 8.5 miles from Encino to Woodland Hills the road isn’t paved – hence dirt MulhollandT. Which makes it perfect for hikers and mountain bikers alike.
The morning June haze was still visible over the valley, it quickly burned off as the day got hot. By the time we finished our hike it was 88 degrees and we felt every single one of them. We weren’t the only crazy people out there, a lot of hardy folk were on foot and bike.
Here, looking southwest towards the city and the ocean. It’s a good 12-mile hike, my son has done it, not sure if it’s on my bucket list. Certainly not when the weather is this hot.
We didn’t make it all the way to the Nike site, did I mention it was hot? Our whole hike was five miles, in two hours. Not bad, when the weather is cooler adding another two miles to get to the Nike site and back will be very doable. As it was, we stopped at any shady place we could, and there weren’t many.
I took this picture because it was on a hillside opposite us and Joel wanted to know what that shiny thing was. I was right, I said it’s probably some escaped milar balloons.
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Leah