Montebello Ridge Road, 2nd Visit

This was a spur of the moment decision to head up this road that I first explored in March 2020. I had stopped partway up the hill at some heavy brush. After this past year of exploring, I had more experience navigating this sort of brush and decided to take a 2nd shot at it.

There's an old gate post part way up the road. At the top switch back, I should have studied the hill shade map a little more as I now see there are 2 more faint road traces there. If I do get back up here, I think I might try crossing the bench above the old road and see if I can re-join that road where it heads back up the canyon.

This bench is nearly 1000 ft. (300m) below the top of Montebello Ridge, where there are a lot of vineyards, some dating from around the time this road was in use. Not sure if this bench was a used that way or more likely it may have been an orchard of some sort. Hoping that hiking across the bench might run into some old trees or grape vine plants from back then. Always interesting to try and find out the purpose of these old areas.

There's also hints of a road that heads along the side of the canyon that may join up with a road coming up from gate MB10.

About the USGS HTMC:
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/national-geospatial-program/historical-topographic-maps-preserving-past

View/download maps on the TopoView site:
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/

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