Triunfo Canyon / White Horse Canyon loop hike on December 20, 2015

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Google Earth view of our route (yellow), looking west. We started at the lower left. Other trails are shown in blue.
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Starting up the Triunfo Cyn Trail.
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There's a bit of a haze over Westlake this morning
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Heading west on the Conejo Crest Trail
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Bypassing the "Descent of Death" on a trail that was built just over a year ago
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The "Descent of Death" is to the right and the bypass is on the left.
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There's a big pile of rocks here!
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This is the New Bridgegate Trail that ends in a gated communitiy. This part of the hike will be out-and-back.
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Near the bottom of the New Bridgegate Trail, starting back up
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We backtrack on the Conejo Crest trail for a couple hundred yards to get to the trail that will take us down to the White Horse Canyon Trail.
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On the Conejo Crest / White Horse Canyon Connector Trail...
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This trail gets rockier as we get to towards the bottom, but the trailwork we did last year to fix the worst ruts has held up well.
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The connector trail meets White Horse Canyon Trail. The latter is no longer a trail because it's been graded out to a full dirt road recently.
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The northern end of the White Horse Canyon Trail where it meets the Los Robles Trail (East), an Edison road.
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Heading east on the Los Robles Trail (East).
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Edison's handiwork
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Finally, back on the Triunfo Canyon Trail to take us back to the cars.
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