Rustic Canyon Loop in Topanga State Park, starting at Will Rogers State Historic Park on August 15, 2010

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This is what it looks like inside. I just stood in the door to take the picture because there were lots of bees inside
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Stairs climb up the hill from the painted structure, but to where? More on that later...
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More ruins in Rustic Canyon
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I think this is the old Josepho Ranch house. This is where "Josepho Drop" (J-Drop) trail comes down from Rogers Road (Backbone Trail) to the west
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My GPS showed the trail length as 0.8 miles
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In Rustic Canyon, north of J-Drop.
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The trail ends at the Boy Scout Camp Josepho. We turn around here and head for J-Drop
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An interspecies embrace
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Here we turn up J-Drop and head for Rogers Road
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The bottom of J-Drop is very pleasant...
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...But not much further up, we start to see some ruts due to water runoff
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Some of the ruts are pretty big!
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That water bar is doing a lot to prevent erosion of the trail, right?
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View south into Rustic Canyon from J-Drop
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This kind of trench is usually made by horses
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Once we get to Rogers Road, we have a splendid view of the coast
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The switchbacks on Rogers Road just above the bridge
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From Rogers Road, we can see a few of these bright stripes going down the far side to the bottom of Rustic Canyon. But what are they? They're too steep to be trails, aren't they?
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Zooming in, we see they're stairs! We saw the bottom of a couple of these at the ruins in the canyon.
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Panoramic view of Rustic Canyon and Los Angeles from Rogers Road.

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