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Our route in blue, as visualized with Google Earth. The view is looking south. Other trails are other colors. Hiking distance was 8.5 miles with about 1700' of climbing.
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Heading up Reseda Blvd to the trailhead
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Starting up the "Top of Reseda" Fireroad 29, heading for Dirt Mulholland
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On Dirt Mulholland, headed east
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Waiting at the bottom of Upper Bent Arrow for everyone to catch up
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Starting up Upper Bent Arrow
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Now we're on an unmaintained trail, I think it's called Farmer Ridge Fireroad, even though it's clearly no longer a road
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We turned off Farmer Ridge Fireroad and headed for Rustic Canyon, down what turned out to be a very sketchy trail!
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This 'trail' had lots of very low overhead
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Towards the bottom, it opened up a bit
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In Rustic Canyon, waiting at the bottom of the 'trail' for the rest to fight their way through
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Rustic Canyon, hiking through the dry streambed
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We were constantly on the lookout for poison oak, but saw very little if any.
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