After a bit of trouble finding the trailhead, then heading off on the wrong trail for a while, we finally found our way up to the ridge heading towards Millard…
View inland from the ridge.
View from the ridge looking out across Altadena and all the way out towards the ocean.
Heading down into the Millard Canyon, the "trail" doesn't look much used or maintained at all. I love this type of trail, but I'm not so sure Dr. Rock does.
Narrow singletrack heading down the canyon wall alongside the blooming Yucca.
Heading deep into the canyon.
The trail is narrow and washed out in places, with steep drop offs. Awesome.
Made it to the bottom of the canyon. Here the trail completely dissapears. I search for a while and find absolutely nothing.
The Dawn Gold Mine is here, which must be the end of the trail. There's still some old equipment lying around.
Entrance to the tiny mine.
We came across someone else at the mine who said you could follow the creek bed all the way back down instead of taking the trail that we did. So we decided to…
A look at Dr. Rock rock hopping down the steep creek bed.
Definitely not runnable, but climbig down the rocks was a lot of fun. You can see someone actually has the "trail" marked with arrows on the rocks.
In places, the "trail" involves bushwacking through the shrubs. Hopefully not too much poision oak in there.
Dr. Rock working his way down the creek bed.
A little bit of water in the creek and quite a bit of green.
Great terrain and a bit of running water in the creek.
Dr. Rock making his way across a tricky section.
Dr. Rock's picture of me coming back over the same section.
The top of Millard Falls. Totally dry but probably pretty nice in a really wet year.