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On The Road – ?BillinGlendaleCA – Lasky Mesa

by WaterGirl|  October 6, 20215:00 am| 17 Comments

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BillinGlendaleCA

This was supposed to be a short morning hike from the Victory Blvd. trailhead to Lasky Mesa and back, about a 1 1/2 mile hike a the most. I made a wrong turn and ended up hiking down to Las Virgenes Canyon, then up to Lasky Mesa about a 4 to 5 mile hike. Lasky Mesa is a elevated plain about 1 1/2 miles north of the the 101 freeway west of the San Fernando Valley. I was used as a location for quite a few westerns in the first half of the 20th century and was slated for housing development in the second half of the century.

I was saved from development and is now part of the Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space that extends from the northern terminus of Las Virgenes Canyon Road all the way to the Santa Susana Field Lab. Unlike the area around the field lab which is rocky, the area around Lasky Mesa is rolling hills covered in grasses with oak trees doting the landscape. This area burned completely in the Woolsey fire 3 years ago and some of the oak trees didn’t make it, but ended up being some of my favorite subjects to shoot for this hike.

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The trailhead at the west end of Victory Blvd.

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A tree among the grasses on the slopes of Lasky Mesa.

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A lone tree high on the hill, at this point I knew I was going the wrong way.

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The trail followed the now dry creek down to the Las Virgenes Canyon trailhead.

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Climbing up out of the canyon to Lasky Mesa, a dead oak tree was at the top of the hill. I really loved this once proud tree and it’s dark form against the blue sky.

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Another dead oak, shot from a distance.

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Lasky Mesa affords a view of both the San Gabriel Mountains to the northeast as well as the Santa Monica Mountains as seen here to the southwest.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    October 6, 2021 at 5:30 am

    I like the second picture.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 6, 2021 at 5:34 am

    @Baud: Thanks, I used that shot in my experiment in adding fog.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 6, 2021 at 5:52 am

    Here’s a shot from last weekend in the eastern Sierra.

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    montanareddog

    October 6, 2021 at 6:19 am

    When Bill mentioned that Lasky Mesa was used for location shooting of westerns, I guessed that it was named for Jesse Lasky. A search brought up this history of the area in the Moviesites site

    Lovely pics, by the way.

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    MomSense

    October 6, 2021 at 6:27 am

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️ second photo.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 6, 2021 at 6:39 am

    @montanareddog: Thanks much.

    @MomSense: You are in agreement with Baud!

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    MomSense

    October 6, 2021 at 7:29 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: 

    I would like to sit under that tree with some music and my knitting. I could spend a whole day just watching the clouds pass by from under that tree.

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    JPL

    October 6, 2021 at 8:05 am

    Wonderful pictures.

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    J R in WV

    October 6, 2021 at 10:03 am

    Nice hike photos. Solitary trees are interesting, I wonder if they feel lonely compared to trees all together in a forest grove?

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    scav

    October 6, 2021 at 11:33 am

    Proper oaks.  thanks.

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    StringOnAStick

    October 6, 2021 at 12:01 pm

    The native oaks in CA have such a distinctive form, so regal and esthetically pleasing.

    Your photo of the fall colors in the Sierra is gorgeous!  Click Bill’s link, people!

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    JustRuss

    October 6, 2021 at 12:21 pm

    Your pics almost make me miss living in SoCal.  Come February, I’ll really miss it.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 6, 2021 at 12:28 pm

    @MomSense: The clouds might be a bit of a problem, we don’t have them much in the Summer.

    @JPL: Thanks.

    @J R in WV: They’re probably happy to not have to compete for resources with the other trees.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 6, 2021 at 12:33 pm

    @scav: You’re welcome.

    @StringOnAStick: We have these and the Coast Live Oak which grow more near water sources.

    Yeah, the fall colors up there were amazing, I hope to head back up this coming weekend.

    @JustRuss: It was over 100° on Sunday.

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    mvr

    October 6, 2021 at 2:13 pm

    Nice!  I like that tree on the hill against the sky as well.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 6, 2021 at 2:31 pm

    @mvr: When we get some nice fog, I’m going to try and head back up there and shoot again.

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    HinTN

    October 6, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Late to the party but, having followed the link to the Sierra picture, will say WOW to that shot of lightning. Also, Cali sure does have its own version of blue sky. I like that oak against that sky.

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