Afshin:

The road is NNW of Fallbrook, about midway between Fallbrook and Elsinore, tucked against Camp Pendleton. If you take Clinton Keith road from the freeway west up into the hills, you will come onto a plateau next to the Nature Conservency (Great hiking and scenery as well), and curve left around the conservency on this plateau. All of a sudden the world ends - you come to a steep drop off with spectacular views for 10-20 miles over avacado tree covered hills with ranch houses on most peaks, and a spider web of twisty roads through the valleys and hills. That is Los Gatos road. The roads go through DeLuz (population about 20, one room schoolhouse) and end up on the Pendleton side of Fallbrook, almost by the east gate.

A real nice day trip to try is Temecula to Los Gatos/Nature Conservancy for a leg stretch, (couple miles hike in to the oldest adobe in Riverside county - a remote land grant rancho from the past), down Clinton Keith to Elsinore, out the Ortega to lunch in San Juan Capistrano, then I-5 to Oceanside and back over to Temecula. We start in San Juan and do the route in reverse.

Phil:

A beach BBQ works for us as well! Seal Beach has some decent facilities.

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John

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