It was another Wild Wednesday hiking with some of my favorite peeps. This time we hiked the RIBBON ROUTE, which included hiking all the ridges surrounding her face. We met in Westlake Village, left cars in a residential area and carpooled to PARAMOUNT RANCH. The plan was to exit from where we initially parked. We walked through the filming area where Western movies are made.
We traversed on the south side of an unmaintained ridge, then descended to Kanan Road and crossed the street. I am sure we looked like a bunch of illegals trying to cross the border.
Here is a picture of the ridge we descended to Kanan.
After crossing the street safely we scrambled 1000 ft up the south face of Ladyface Peak. This was quite a fun scramble with lots of loose rocks.
After admiring the views, we bagged Ladyface round one, summit pose # 1
We then descended on the northeast ridge line back to Kanan Road. We climbed over this cool rock.
After descending Kanan and Cornell roads, we then proceeded to walk about 1/2 mile to the popular route where hikers start. We ascended up the southeast ridge. It's been a couple of years since I have taken this route but the 1100 feet that I regained was less exhausting than the other ridges we climbed. The class 3 rock scrambling is always a plus. Whoooohooo!!! Round two and summit pose # 2
After a long break we still had quite a bit of scrambling and ridge climbing ahead of us. We departed from the peak and this time descended a use path towards the west ridge along its spine. We hiked through dense chapparal where most of the trail was overgrown but doable. This was the most exhausting ridge of the day with lots of ups and downs. However, rock scrambling was the best part.
As we continued to hike along the spine, from a distance we could see a flag on top of an unknown high point. We decided to check it out and found a use path transversing up a very grassy ridge to get to this point.
The final push to the unknown summit.
Once we reached the top, it was pretty cool. No register or official BM, but I found this.
After the excitement we descended down a short ridge back to the neighborhood where our cars were parked in Westlake Village. This was a very cool, fun, & exhausting route. I recommend it if you want a good workout!
I know we need winter weather but it’s great to be able to hike in short sleeves in January. That picture showing the west ridge rock scrambling seems fun.
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