On Thursday I happened across a mention of a place called Runyon Canyon on a nature photography forum. I was looking for someplace to test some new camera equipment, so I decided to take a look at it on Saturday.
The entrance to the park is less than a mile from the Hollywood and Highland Subway station, which makes it fairly convenient for me to get to. I thought that by going in the middle of the day when it was 90 degrees out there wouldn’t be anyone else around, but no such luck–the place was surprisingly crowded.
There were interesting ruins scattered around the lower part of the canyon, most of them off the path hidden by the bushes and trees. Nobody else was venturing off the dirt roads, so it was just a matter of walking ten feet through the brush to get away from the other people.
I hadn’t brought a canteen, so I didn’t follow the trails up the ridges on either side of the canyon, but I’ll definitely go back sometime around sunrise or sunset, or when there are some clouds to make the sky more interesting.
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