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Sespe hot springs is amazing. Water is nice and hot and worth the long hike to get there.
We hiked two days in and two days out and I recommend waking up at 5am to get ready and start walking up until 11-5pm because the switch backs can be very brutal during the afternoon.
There's plenty of running water.
I'd also recommend taking a few extra days to camp once at the hot springs.
(I should have taken more photos especially of the hot springs river but I was so beat. Next time!)
Great trail. The hike was great. Challenging at times but the scenery is beautiful and picturesque. I stopped many times to take pictures of the various types of plants and animals. I would highly recommend this park! Very cool experience.
Beautiful forest. There are definitely some awe inspiring spectacular views that will take your breath away! Me and my best friend drove through here on the way to see his younger brother. We had to stop several times to take in the views and explore a little. It was very pretty but you could definitely see that a lot of the damage from the recent fires was still there
Super cool. The trip was really super cool, because we had fun, we eat sausages, my dog was so happy and excited to travel though the forest. Very beautiful by the way, fresh air - breath fully. I enjoyed the whole trip.
Today my hike crew and I engaged a trail along Piru Creek in the southern end of Lockwood Valley in that Sespe Wilderness. We took the Fishbowl Trail to the FishBowls camp for snacky time and then up and over a mountain back to Cedar Creek camp. We were most certainly out in the sticks and far away from modern-day noises. I think on the whole 14-mile trek we heard the props from a single airplane far away.
It was a long hike but it is one I wanted to get off my bucket list for a long time. We started and ended at the Fish Bowl trailhead and camp. Following Piru Creek, we crossed a lot of Eocene marine delta deposits of Arkose-type sandstone as described by some USGS maps. Arkros is generally formed from the weathering of feldspar-rich igneous or metamorphic, most commonly granitic, rocks, which are primarily composed of quartz and feldspar.
The other thing we noticed was the most horned lizards I have ever seen! I always feel lucky when I see at least one horned lizard, in this case, I think we saw about 20 altogether on the trail and this made me happy. Too bad there were not enough of them to keep the bugs at bay. We downed our bug nets and continued all the way till we reached the Fishbowl Camp and snacky time!
The Fishbowl camp was nestled amongst some impressive massive boulders next to a grove of Manzanita We made our way to the Fish Bowls which are a set of deep pools in the Upper Piru Creek. That strangely enough has a lot of fish! We even saw a good-sized trout.
We moved on over a massive mountain of sandstone deposits and back down the other side to the Cedar Creek camp with... You guessed it, some big honking Cedar trees. It was really neat hiking down the side of the mountain and seeing exposed and weathered sandstone it made for some unique formations and a unique setting.
After Cedar Creek camp it was another 5 miles to the trailhead and fire road back to where we started. The group really made up for speed on the fire road and the relive video below shows the our top speed was on the fire road.
Here is my Relive to sum it up.
