
Along the paved Tunnel Trail. You can see the Cathedral Peak Trail ridgeline leading up to Cathedral Peak in the distance.

The start of the popular Seven Falls Trail along Mission Creek. The Cathedral Peak Trail heads left.

Along the Cathedral Peak Trail.

Looking down into Mission Creek. Mission Ridge (we did it later) visible in the center.

The scrambling begins.

La Cumbre Peak visible in the center.

Wide shot of La Cumbre (left), White Mountain (right), and Mission Creek below.

More scrambling. It's sustained Class 2 fun stuff most of the way up.

The ridgeline to Cathedral Peak.

Looking back toward the way we came, White Mountain left, Mission Ridge center.




Another shot looking back.


Approaching the first sub-peak, Arlington Peak.

Summit block of Arlington Peak.

View north from Arlington Peak. Cathedral Peak on the left, just a rock outcropping. La Cumbre Peak the high point on the right.

Looking back the way we came, taken from Arlington Peak.

View south toward Santa Barbara.

Continuing toward Cathedral Peak, left.

Approaching Cathedral Peak.

Cathedral Peak summit, looking back toward Arlington Peak. White Mountain visible on the left.

Cathedral Peak summit, view north toward La Cumbre Peak. You can see people scrambling along the ridgeline on the bottom left. Onward!

On the way down from Cathedral Peak, looking back along the ridgeline toward Cathedral (right).

Lots of shrubs on the way down from Cathedral and up to La cumbre, but the trail was well-maintained.

La Cumbre ahead.

Looking back as we head up to La Cumbre Peak, Cathedral Peak on the right behind us.

Some more brush-encroached trail and some light scrambling, but not unpleasant at all.

Cathedral and Arlington in the distance, Santa Barbara behind them.

Some more light scrambling on the way up to La Cumbre Peak.

La Cumbre Peak ahead.

Just below the summit of La Cumbre Peak, view southwest at the hills.

La Cumbre Peak summit, view south toward Cathedral.

La Cumbre Peak summit, view east toward White Mountain (right).

Heading along the ridge from La Cumbre Peak.

Merge with the road for a couple of miles, White Mountain in the center.

Almost at the northern slope of White Mountain.

A social trail leading up White Mountain. La Cumbre Peak visible in the center.

Some decent views on White Mountain.

Headed south from White Mountain. We decided to search for the social trail route along the ridge, rather than backtrack to the Tunnel Trail. The social trail would eventually meet back up with the Tunnel Trail.

Somewhat easy to follow at first.

Then we got into the rock garden and the trail went off in all sorts of directions.

Looking down the ridge once we relocated the social trail.

Close-up of Mission Ridge in the center as we followed the social trail down.

Looking back up the way we came.

Some light scrambling on the way down.

One particularly cryptic section toward the middle of the descent, where we had to go through a rock squeeze. It took us a half hour to figure this one out. Sure enough, the trail continued just after it.

Headed down the ridgeline, easy to follow all the way from here.

Mission Ridge ahead.

Merge with the Tunnel Trail.

View toward Cathedral Peak along the Tunnel Trail.

Quick detour up to Mission Ridge.

Mission Ridge ahead.

Mission Ridge summit, view north toward White Mountain (right) and La Cumbre Peak (left).

View south, Tunnel Trail visible on the right.

Back on the Tunnel Trail, with great views of Arlington Peak on the left, and La Cumbre center.

Close-up of the ridge we took up, the Cathedral Peak Trail.

Tunnel Trail leads back to complete the loop.
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