Henninger Flats

Cara and I took a morning hike up to Henninger Flats this morning. This is the first hike we have taken together in a couple of years. We parked our car on Altadena Dr then hiked up the Mt.Wilson toll road to Henninger. It was a lot steeper than what I remembered! We left a few minutes before 9am and got there around 10:37. The hike was 8 miles round trip. After coming down from the top we soaked our feet in the little creek flowing through Eaton Canyon. It felt really good! For lunch we ended up at Daphne's. I had a Gyro Salad, very healthy. The hike was very hot because you are hiking up and down a fire road with very little shade.

Henninger Flats is an experimental forest station which is operated by Los Angeles County. When you get on top it is very cool with pine trees. The camp grounds are very nice. I need to take my BSA troop up there for a camp out. We met a young family coming down who had camped out for the night. If you have the chance this is a nice moderate hike.