Parking Area nearest the Backbone Trail.

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Parking Area nearest the Backbone Trail.

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A little eight-legged creature greeting visitors to the Corpse Wall.

Development on the way to the Corpse Wall.

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Benjamin Chapman

Jan 16, 2017

“Parking Area nearest the Backbone Trail.”

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I added missing routes. Benjamin, please verify and let me know if it needs corrections/changes.
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A 360x180 I from the top of the wall.<br>
Interactive version here:<br>
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http://www.brandonriza.com/Tour/Crag/Tour.html

Approach Trail Map<br>
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From the parking lot: Look out at the ocean then head up the trail to your right. Follow the trail and stay to the left of the water tank and keep going. The trail opens up and you'll see the no bikes sign (Blue Circle) and go right here. Follow it down past a mellow slab and then you'll see the wall on your left.

Nice evening at Saddle Peak - M. Bartosek photo

Sunset at Saddle Peak

Say What? You take an egg to the crag and just chuck the shell. Do you do that at the gym? Clean up after yourselves and pack it out!!

The Corpse Wall at Saddle Peak.

Bury Your Poop. Pack Out Your Paper.

Fungi on the hike to Saddle Peak.

Saddle Peak, Corpse Wall routes.

The Corpse Wall from the approach trail.

Routes from Left to Right

Giant rock next to the wall. Looks like there is an anchor on top. Anyone have any info?

The Outsider Block at sunset.

This is where you turn off the main approach trail. Go right.

Great Spring flowers in bloom at Saddle Peak.

New signage on the approach.

On the approach to Saddle Peak.

Are you kidding me, people!!<br>
Leave your Toilet Paper and feces smears in the gym. If you have to go outside, bury it or pack it out!

Beautiful ! The Las Virgenes Water District water tank, at Saddle Peak, with zero graffiti.

Big changes taking place on the approach to the Corpse Wall.

Changes taking place on the approach to the Corpse Wall.

Toilet Paper, Egg Shells, Cigarette Butts, Old Chalk Balls, ....all left by Thoughtless Clueless climbers.

You bring your dog to Stunt Ranch State Park and throw a bag full of its feces into the bushes. HOW OBTUSE CAN YOU BE??<br>
$240 fine for having your dog in the Park and $1,000 for littering. The dog is welcome, the misbehaving climber is not!

Paragliding has became a "thing" from the bluff south of the Corpse Wall, in addition to hiking, climbing, illegal mountain biking, and illegal dog walking.

Working the moves on Route #5

Spring flowers on the trail to Saddle Peak.

A little eight-legged creature greeting visitors to the Corpse Wall.

Parking Area nearest the Backbone Trail.

Development on the way to the Corpse Wall.

Making the proposal and tendering the ring high above the Corpse Wall.

A highliner showing their talents at Saddle Peak.

Cruising on the Backbone Trail to the Corpse Wall..

Wildflowers on the Backbone Trail to Saddle Peak.

Climber generated litter at the base of the Corpse Wall.<br>

Yet more signage on the trail to Corpse Wall.

Hollywood takes over the parking area at Corpse Wall for a film shoot.

Graffiti along the trail to Saddle Peak. Seems to be everywhere these days.

Las Virgenes Water District water tank. Pass this on your right about 1/3 of the way in on the hike into Saddle Peak.

$Well featured and fractured sandstone.$

The latest guide service working the Corpse Wall.

Big upgrades by the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District. Pass carefully on the ocean side of this active construction site.

Sharing the parking area at the Corpse Wall during the August heat wave.

A spring flower on the Backbone Trail to Saddle Peak.

Instant moss. Just add water.

Tiff trying to escape the Zombie Apocalypse at Stunt Slabs.

Spring flower at Saddle Peak.

Enjoying some climbing on glueins in the area.

A beautiful spring flower on the approach to Saddle Peak.

Wildflowers at Saddle Peak.

The end of another great day at Saddle Peak. Leaving the Saddle Peak Trail (part of the Backbone Trail System) and nearing the parking area.

Enjoying the day at Saddle Peak.

Trailside boulders on the trail to Saddle Peak.

Towers on Saddle Peak. If you see these you've missed the turn off.

On the trail to Stunt Road State Park and the Corpse Wall.

Santa Monica and Santa Monica Bay at sunset.

When the trail is this wet you'd hope climbers would stay off the wall.

Xenoliths.

Rock n Rope Adventures leading guided groups at the Corpse Wall in 2021,

A cross erected at the base of the slab, to honor the poor guy that commited suicide at Saddle Peak. Just downhill from RIP Arete.

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