Start of the trail from Kanan Road. Ladyface Mountain is visible through the fog.The trail gains the ridge.Following the ridge all the way to the summit.View back at a spectacular cloud inversion.View west along Kanan Road.Another view back.Small dip along the ridge.The trail continues left, contouring the south slope. I stayed right and scrambled directly up the ridge. Class 3 on very solid rock.View back from above the first Class 3 section.Following a use-trail along the ridge.Heading for the unofficially-named Flagpole Peak, the outcrop on the right.A second Class 3 section.Flagpole Peak summit. View toward Ladyface Mountain.Approaching Ladyface Mountain.Ladyface Mountain summit.View southwest.View northeast toward the town of Agoura Hills.On the way back, I bypassed the scrambling sections via the trail on the south face.A banded orb weaver, spotted near the trailhead.
