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Date Event Temescal Canyon Meeting Time Trail Head Start Time Distance
May 20 Secret Trail--Meet at high school (6:15) or at Piuma Rd. at Virgenes(7:10)--then carpool. 6:15 7:10 12mi

Meeting Time

The standard meeting time on Temescal Canyon Road at the Palisades High School track is:

6:15 AM

(leaving for the trailhead at 6:30am SHARP!)

See the Run with us page for directions and map.  For trailhead meeting times please see the schedule.  Some special events may have earlier meeting times.

Upcoming Club Runs
May 20 Secret Trail--Meet at high school (6:15) or at Piuma Rd. at Virgenes(7:10)--then carpool.
May 27 Sycamore Canyon/Chamberlain Rock
Jun 3 Santa Ynez/Trailer Canyon
Jun 10 Irving's Run(Westridge Road/Mandeville Canyon)
Jun 17 Ernie's Run Westridge/Sullivan Canyon--Father's Day

What's New
Malibu Crk. St. Park/Paramount Ranch--Mother's Day
3 days 19 hours ago 		Story
The Legs Were Like Life
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Santa Monica Mountains--150,000 Acres--A Treasure
6 weeks 16 hours ago 		Story
Backbone--Leg #1 Will Rogers Park to Schueren Road
9 weeks 3 days ago 		Course
Which GPS Unit is the Best is for You?
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The Trail Runners Club meets every Sunday morning in Pacific Palisades to run one of many courses throughout the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains. We run primarily on trails and fireroads. If you live in or are visiting the Los Angeles area and enjoy running in natural settings with great people, you will love the Trail Runners Club. For more detailed information about our runs refer to the Run With Us page.

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Aviva, Ignasi, and Charlie
Charlie up Lookout Trail
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Ignasi and Charlie
Lisa
Todd and Mike
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Malibu Crk. St. Park/Paramount Ranch--Mother's Day

Submitted by ernie on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 7:44pm

It was a beautiful Mother's Day in the Malibu Creek State Park through the revised course, and including the Deerleg Trail.  Our photos were a ball.

The Legs Were Like Life

Submitted by ernie on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 6:48pm

Well, the Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains is 68 miles up and down from Pacific Palisades to Pt. Mugu State Park.  We quartered  this trail into 4 runs into our Sunday runs.  It was a little of a pain, since we scheduled so that most of the cars were at the finish and we took runners to the start. 

Leg 1 started at Will Rogers Park in Palific Palisades in a light rain.  As we climbed, the temperature lowered and the rain was raining harder.  We then sled down the Musch Trail and the Dead Horse Trail in slick mud in the rain--what a kick!  Then we ran as a loyal group on an often used connector to the trail that climbs  Hondo Canyon.  Now the rain

Santa Monica Mountains--150,000 Acres--A Treasure

Submitted by ernie on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 10:49pm

As some of our club members appreciated looking over the spanse of hills above the blue Pacific Ocean.  Then we amazed at the million years old fossils on our trail last week.  Don't waste yourself missing this treasure--You only live once.

Which GPS Unit is the Best is for You?

Submitted by ernie on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 10:05pm

Member Bob Pietzke recently sent this article comparing GPS units.  Some of the units varied, and foilage coverage and steep elevation changed considerable. Consistent distances were achieved by asking Ernie.

Run the Backbone--Spring 2012

Submitted by ernie on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 11:04pm
Run The Backbone in Spring 2012
I am pretty excited about this one. This Spring of 2012 will have a unique opportunity to run the entire Backbone Trail with 4 consecutive Sunday legs. The entire trail spans 68 miles from Will Rogers Park to the Ray Miller Trail of Pt. Mugu Park. The 4 legs of 17.8 mi., 18.6 mi., 16.3 mi and 16.0 mi. are sections that will be fairly manageable, and the stringing of these trails will unite the Backbone Trail.
 Leg 1--Will Rogers Park to the top of Hondo Canyon--17.8 miles
From Will Rogers Park we ascend with ocean glimpses of the Santa Monica Bay. The continuation to the Hub will next connect via Eagle Springs Road and Musch Trail. After refreshing-up at Trippet, we casually descend the Dead Horse Trail. After the lush Hondo Canyon, we take one last ascend to the top--finishing the first leg--with a view of the Santa Monica Bay and Catalina Island and the horizon is almost at the curvature of the earth. Beautiful! After one short trail to Schueren Road, there are fossils embedded into rocks seen at the right.

Beautiful Thanksgiving Holiday

Submitted by ernie on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 9:53pm

Our Thanksgiving Day was a beautiful day on our 9.5 mile run from our Santa Ynez trailhead. It was so good to see our friends running the run, chatting and eating. It was good to see Stan recovering--How much can we be more thankful? Photos of Thanksgiving. Many of us rested after Thanksgiving and drifted north to Sycamore Canyon on Sunday for a challenging run to Chamberlain Rock and back. How much better can it get any better? See the Chamberlain Rock photos.

Yosemite --If a picture shows 1,000, then a video shows 1,000,000

Submitted by ernie on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:29am

On our TRC trip to Yosemite on Sept.23-25 was a beautiful run from Tenaya Lake to Clouds Rest and down to the Valley.  Our production videos by member James captured our apical reach to Clouds Rest, and his condense  of our trip.  Here is the Clouds Rest climb:

 

And here is a condensed video of the Yosemite trip:

 

The Rich History is in Mt. Lowe

Submitted by ernie on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 4:10pm

Hi guys,
 
All members are welcome October 9th to enjoy a jaunt in the nearby San Gabriel Mts. (about a 45-minute drive from Santa Monica).  Meet at 7 AM at the Trail Head at the end of Lake Avenue in Altadena--We are not starting from the high school on Temescal Canyon Road.
There is no poison oak on this course, and none of those annoying rolling hills.  The out course is up, and the return is down--so at any time you know whether you are going toward your car, or away from it.  There is no water on the course.  This course will be marked with flour arrows.  If you have any questions, let me know echalekson@gmail.com
The San Gabriels are very beautiful and you can still see remnants of its glorious past.  
 

The TRC in theTransRockies--August 21-26

Submitted by ernie on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 9:21am

Several of our TRC members commenced the TransRockies 2011 Race on August 21 for 120 miles for a beautiful but difficult experience.  TransRockies Run course runs from Buena Vista to Beaver Creek, through the heart of the White River and San Isabel National Forests. The course includes a mix of singletrack and forest road with nearly 25,000 feet of elevation gain, reaching altitudes of over 12,500 ft.  Members of TRC coupled in 2-man teams.  Ann and Art as a team and Emmy with a teammate and Lori with a teammate. 

It won't be long and we will hear the stories and experiences of these rugged individuals.  I am so proud for them all and Congratulations!!!

 TransRockies 2011 website

 

Great Morning August 7, 2011 --Ernie's Run

Submitted by ernie on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 2:40pm

Our smiles showed  how much fun we were having!  See all the photos.  Unfortunately, our photographer showed everyone but herself--Lori.  Thanks

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