Secret Stairs: Part 2 - Silver Lake

Last weekend, Penelope and I took our second Secret Stairs hike together. This time we hiked through the hills of Silver Lake. I fell in love with the neighborhood, it was so beautiful. If we don't end up buying a house in the Pasadena area, we will likely buy in Silver Lake. Here are a few photos from the hike:

Yellow House in Silver Lake

Spanish Style House in Silver Lake

Silver Lake Reservoir

Secret Stairs: Part 1 - Montecito Heights

Last weekend Penelope and I went on an interesting urban hike through a series of hidden staircases in Montecito Heights. We found the hike in an awesome book gifted to us by Pen's mom called Secret Stairs: A walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles by Charles Fleming. The book is packed with hikes in different LA neighborhoods that take the reader up and down a series of staircases hidden away in plain sight.

We really enjoyed our first hike through Montecito Heights. I dragged along my camera and tripod and made some HDR photographs:

Secret Stairways Montecito Heights

Fallen Stairs

Purple Flowers, Billboard and Abandoned Mechanic

Downtown Los Angeles From Montecito Heights

Hidden Camera Detector Pen

This pen has a built in receiver to detect wireless cameras that may be spying on you and is called the Security Pen.