Muhu Tasen, Quatal Canyon, Santa Barbara County, CA
Muhu Tasen (Chumash: Red Owl), a Native American camp and sweat lodge with ceremonial grounds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa2B-uMvDUA
Muhu Tasen is supported by Sacred Indigenous Preservation, an organization focused on the protection of sites where regularly scheduled indigenous North American ceremonies (i.e., Sweat Lodges, Vision Quests and Bear Ceremonies) are conducted and where the practice of these ceremonies is threatened.
Quatal Canyon (Forest Road #9N09):
Wide, flat and smooth at the beginning, this 18 mile scenic dirt road, is well signed at Hwy 33 & mostly graded. Quatal Canyon connects Ojai’s Highway 33 to the pinyon pine forest above near Pine Mountain Club .
Quatal Canyon (possibly named after a Chumash warrior) is a giant high desert wash, ripping down from Cerro Noroeste (aka Mt Abel). Serious erosion w/ San Andreas fault lines – make it a very interesting canyon to explore on foot, horseback and is popular with mountain bikers, motorcycle dirt bikers & off-roaders.
The high desert terrain is pinyon forest, with yucca & manzanita. The eroded cliffs of red rock, white & orange hues, glow best during the clearest sunsets. You will almost think your in Utah, until you get up on a ridge & see the smog in the Central Valley of California.