Hiking the Shooting Star Trail from Wildwood to the Santa Rosa Valley for the Conejo Open Space Challenge on March 22, 2015

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Our route, as seen from Google Earth from the north-east. Santa Rosa Valley is on the right side, Montclef Ridge in the center, and Wildwood to the left of that.
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Shooting star flowers, 'borrowed' from the internet because we didn't see any along the trail today.
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Starting down the connector trail from Wildwood Ave to the (upper) Santa Rosa Trail
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Starting down the Shooting Star Trail
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A flower along the way, apparently a domestic that escaped from someone's flower garden.
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On the Lower Santa Rosa Trail
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Approaching the end of the Lower Santa Rosa Trail
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At the end of the trail is the compound with the rail lines and cars, with some castle features to boot!
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The Lower Santa Rosa Trail, on the return trip
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Heading back up the Shooting Star Trail. Didn't see any shootng stars on the retun triip, either.
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Almost back to the start
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This is from a hike along the trail in 2014 where there were still shooting stars in bloom.