Freehiking in California

Fred explores the Sespe Wilderness' Alder Creek Trail

The local weather forecast for Naked Hiking Day calls for a high in the triple digits. I’m not sure I want to go out in that kind of weather. But we’ll see.

Friday I wandered out to the Sespe Wilderness, north of Filmore. There’s a 10-mile trip down a rough dirt track to get to the trailhead. Most of the road threads thru an oil lease on Los Padres Natio…