Starting along an access trail leading into Horn Canyon.View back as the access trial follows Thatcher Creek.The access trail lets out onto a private road. Several signs direct hikers to the start of Horn Canyon.Starting up Horn Canyon Trail.Crossing Thatcher Creek.View back down Horn Canyon. In the foreground, a group of backpackers return from a trip into the Sespe Wilderness.Final Thatcher Creek crossing as the trail bends east into a subsidiary canyon.Ascending an offshoot of Horn Canyon.View back.Gaining a spur ridge around 3,000 feet."The Pines" Campground.View back toward Ojai Valley. Chief Peak comes into view for the first time.Approaching the Sisar Canyon Road junction.Sisar Canyon Road junction.Continuing along Sisar Canyon Road.Merging with Nordhoff Ridge Road.Chief Peak from Nordhoff Ridge Road.Ojai Valley and the Pacific Ocean from a viewpoint along Nordhoff Ridge Road.Leaving Nordhoff Ridge Road for Chief Peak's southwest ridge.Easy cross-country to gain the ridge.View back.Ridgeline to Chief Peak (right of center). The standard route follows the west ridge, climbing over the prominence on the left.Start of Class 2.View back.Optional Class 3 along the ridge crest. Can be bypassed to the climber's right.Chief Peak summit. View east toward Topatopa Bluff.View west along the standard route. A couple of hikers can barely be seen descending the prominence on the right.View southwest, the way I came.View north into the Sespe Wilderness. The white streak in the midground is a rock formation known as "Piedra Blanca".Rejoining Nordhoff Ridge Road, headed toward Sisar Peak (left).Staying left at the Sisar Canyon Road junction to continue along Nordhoff Ridge Road.View back toward Chief Peak.The radio tower at Sisar Peak's summit comes into view.Leaving Nordhoff Ridge Road for a service road on the left that ascends Sisar Peak's south ridge.View back.View east toward the impressive cliffs of Topatopa Bluff.Sisar Peak summit.Rejoining Horn Canyon Trail at Nordhoff Ridge Road.Following Horn Canyon Trail for three-quarters of a mile back to the intersection with Sisar Canyon Road.
