GROUP TO BLAZE TRAIL TO ROCKY PEAK.Byline: Kermit Pattison Daily News Staff Writer Armed with hoes, picks and clippers, a local hiking group plans to blaze a new trail up to Rocky Peak this weekend. In a celebration of California Trail Days, the Rancho Simi Trail Blazers will begin clearing a new path to Rocky Peak in the Santa Susana Mountains The Santa Susana Mountains are a transverse range of mountains in southern California, north of the city of Los Angeles, in the United States. The range runs east-west separating the San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley on its south from Santa Clara River Valley to the north and on Saturday and Sunday. ``There's no decent trail going over there,'' said John Downey, a board member of the Rancho Simi Trail Blazers. ``People climb over rocks and go over any way they can to get to it. Sometimes they go through areas with endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. of plants, and other areas where there's poison oak poison oak: see poison ivy. poison oak Species of poison ivy (Toxicodendron diversilobum) native to western North America and classified in the sumac (or cashew) family. . We're trying to make a safe route.'' The new trail will wind its away about a quarter mile from a service road through chaparral and rocks to the peak - giving hikers easier access to one of the most spectacular summits in the region. ``They have some pretty grand vistas up there,'' said Rick Johnson, a spokesman for the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District. ``If you go up on a clear day not only can you see Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , but Mount Baldy and the Channel Islands.'' The Trail Blazers have invited volunteers to lend a hand to give assistance. to give assistance; to help. See also: Hand Lend clearing the new path. Volunteers will meet at 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday on the northern side of the Rocky Peak interchange with Highway 118 and work until about 2 p.m. Volunteers should bring good shoes, long pants, a hat, water, food, sunscreen sunscreen /sun·screen/ (-skren) a substance applied to the skin to protect it from the effects of the sun's rays. sun·screen n. , gloves and tools such as bow saws and pick mattocks. For more information, contact Downey at (805) 526-8588. |
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