InsideHook is the free daily email that inspires driven men. They recently recommended the Big Bear Valley Trail Foundation’s Skyline Trail. You can sign up to receive updates from InsideHook HERE.
Here’s their recommendation:
For a long time, if you wanted to hike the pine-topped ridge of Big Bear (up in the Los Angeles forest; it’s a beaut), you’d find yourself on a fireroad staring at trucks. No view. Just trucks.
That time has passed. Say hello to Skyline: eight miles of pure backcountry splendor, now open to the public.
Excavated and compacted by the Big Bear Valley Trail Foundation, a nonprofit run by sap-happy outdoorsmen, the Skyline Trail was a fire-break created during the Old Fire of 2003.
It’s now hikeable and bikeable. And pretty damn breathtaking.
Redwood trees in Southern California? I had heard that there was a grove of Sequoia sempervirens somewhere in Orange County, but had never been able to figure out where.