The road out of Los Angeles

The city of Los Angeles may be a man-made sprawl, but step outside of it, even just a little bit, and there it is — the wild — the wild ocean, the wild hills, the wild desert. In California traveling is like changing channels. At left, the backbone trail extends almost 70 miles across the length of the Santa Monica Mountains. Read: Outside the City of Angels: blessed hills and desert
Jonathan Levitt for The Boston Globe

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The city of Los Angeles may be a man-made sprawl, but step outside of it, even just a little bit, and there it is — the wild — the wild ocean, the wild hills, the wild desert. In California traveling is like changing channels. At left, the backbone trail extends almost 70 miles across the length of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Read: Outside the City of Angels: blessed hills and desert