Calavera Lake and Cerro de la Calavera Loop | Full Hike | Carlsbad Highlands Ecological Reserve

Watch the full hike Lake Calavera Loop is a 4.97-mile trail with 669 feet of elevation change and is part of Carlsbad Highlands Ecological Reserve located near Carlsbad, California. Standing at 513 feet (156 meters) tall, Cerro de la Calavera, also known as Mount Calavera, is an ancient plug dome volcano. Its last eruption occurred a whopping 22 million years ago!
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Please Note: The Map Overlay, GPS Coordinates, Elevation Change are all custom coded and synced to the video. These values are approximations. I do my best to make them as accurate as possible, and hope to make it better overtime. You may notice some obvious mistakes, it happens... I hope you enjoy, it took A LOT of time to make with the help of several friends! :)
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[@KhurshidsChannel]

Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing. 👍1

[@DanielKusper]

Thank you for hanging out! 🤙

[@JillBelieves84]

Hello! I’ve been enjoying your recent videos! I’m curious… I’ve been interested in getting some trekking poles. I see you have links listed, and under “Hiking Gear,” you have water bladder and trekking poles listed, but both links are identical. Once clicked, both links show the water bladder. (I have noticed this on the last few videos) What trekking poles do you recommend? Thank you-and thanks again for your great hiking videos! 😊

[@DanielKusper]

Thanks for the heads up, I need to get the list updated, it's a template, so it might take some time to get them all updated. There are many options for poles. I'll admit I'm not the most knowledgeable on them. These are the poles that I have been using amzn.to/3VnI6ZX (Affiliate Link). I've put over 100 miles without issues.

[@JillBelieves84]

@@DanielKusper You’re welcome! And thank you for the poles link. I’ll definitely look into it. I think poles would help while walking/hiking-plus an extra way to work on arm muscles! I’m enjoying watching your hike on Baldy this morning. What a beautiful trail-and steep!

[@DanielKusper]

Baldy is a good one! If you are on Instagram check out “super_hiking_twins”. They have done it countless times during all the seasons. Also very motivating considering their age.

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@@DanielKusper Yes, I am! I’ll check them out. Thank you for the suggestion!