Grimes canyon

After taking care of some recycling that needed to be done on Saturday (I've had some old stuff in the garage for a long, long time... it's gone now) Steve and I got back and spent about 30 minutes extracting a bungie cord that was wedged under the drivers seat of the truck. Then Sarah and the boys went off to Magic Mountain to get season passes, leaving me at loose ends.

Not for too long...

I came back in and grabbed some water and a CD and headed out to find Balcom Canyon, top down and just cruisin'. I guess I should have checked a map first. I did wind up coming home via Balcom Canyon Road, but didn't get there initially.

I took a wrong turn at the end of the first section of Grimes Canyon Road and ended up going up (and then back) through the canyon itself. The canyon portion of the ride is short, but can be a blast when you've got it to yourself. Not so on the northern trip. And then just as we hit the flats again, I realized I hadn't seen anyone going the other direction for about a mile, so I turned around and ran to play. I had the road to myself coming south for a good run but just before we hit the best part near the top I ran into slower traffic ahead. As I caught up with a convoy I pulled over at a good spot to take some pictures.

It made a pretty nice place to catch the tiered nature of that part of the canyon and I got some good shots, so up they go. I took some shots down on the lower portion (the X on the left in the image above) and on the top (the X on the right). Sadly, Grimes Canyon is a part of Google's Ventura County blackout area so no decent satellite links (I'd link to TerraServer but I couldn't find a permalink).

None of the moonrise pictures came out particularly well, but that's life.