CORBA cellebrates the work of Frank Padilla who recently retired from his
position of State Park Superintendent. Frank has been instrumental in building
and maintaining many of the trails in the Los Angeles Area.
Photos of VenturaCountyTrails. Click on an image to see it full size.
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On the way to the dam, this bridge has appeared over a huge rut in the trail
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It had a bad approach so it was really hard to ride across
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Most people just walked. A few took the fun detour that goes around
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"If at first you don't succeed..."
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Coming back on through the Creek of Doom
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The tandem gets hung up on a rock
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A few people were able to ride through this section without dabbing
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It's really rocky after the winter rains!
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A step on the Tapia Spur Trail on the way back down into Tapia State Park
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Some flowers are blooming along the trail. These ones are called "yellow." (So not everyone can be a naturalist like Joe Dilman!)
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Whoooops! There's something in the trail and it looks like a photographer!
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Lunch after the ride
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The cake is a contour map of the Santa Monica Mountains!
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Here's a close-up of the cake. Can you pick out the trails?
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After lunch, several speakers told us of Frank's contribution to getting trails opened to mountain biking in the early days
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