Mountain Biking Chumash Trail

Mountain biking down Chumash Trail in Simi Valley, CA riding behind Ramil. This was taken sometime around Dec 2007 using a Viosport helmet cam. I recommend watching it in High Quality. I used the Deshaker plugin for Virtual Dub to remove some of the shaking but that can only do so much.

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• mountain
• bike
• biking
• downhill
• singletrack
• trail
• simi
• valley
• specialized
• enduro
• viosport
• helmet
• cam
• vdub
• deshaker

[Putzflek]

Thanks for the upload!

I love this trail, and do it whenever I come to visit the family in Simi. March/April is the best time - everything is green, many animals (mostly birds) and more importantly - no snakes.

If you're not in shape I'd start off at the "Evening Sky Drive" entrance (to Maar Ranch/Las Llajas), rather than Flanagan. It's much easier.

[psykodad]

You're welcome. Actually we do go up Las Llajas and down Chumash. I think I've only gone up Chumash twice and I agree, you have to be in pretty good shape to do it.

[kurthpv]

on that very last downhill section, I was going so fast, and there was traffic going up the hill, and if the guy wouldn't have passed the intersection in time, I would have gone right through him. I was cruising pretty fast.

[psykodad]

Yeah I know what you mean. I couldn't slow down in that section even if I wanted to (I actually wanted to stay behind my buddy but couldn't). I'm glad there was a big gap between the group of riders going up otherwise it would have been mountain bike bowling.

[thirdidiot]

Where exactly is that - looks like a beautiful ride

[psykodad]

Directions to the bottom trailhead: Exit on Yosemite Ave. from the 118 Fwy and go north. Turn right on Flannagan and head all the way to the end. You can't miss the trailhead (you'll also see a paved trail but stay on the dirt trail). The top of Chumash connects to Rocky Peak. If you're heading westbound on the 118, you can exit Rocky Peak. Take the fire road about 3.5 miles up and you'll see the Chumash trailhead on the left.

[gtrumpnc]

I grew up in Simi Valley in the 60s and 70s. We used to take our Army packs and a gallon of water each and climb up Rocky Peak. Often we were turned out by guys on horseback with sidearms. All that land was owned by Bob Hope at the time so you had to watch for the security cowboys.

Lots of cool things to see, like holes in the rock where the Chumash ground acorns and chia, live oaks in the canyons, tall grasses in winter, and rattlesnakes everywhere. Awesome.