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Five Southern California trails that take you to the edge of the ocean Christopher Reynolds © Provided by The LA Times Point Dume State Preserve is part of Point Dume State Beach in Malibu. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times) Here are five Southern California trails that do something most hikes don't — take you to the edge of the ocean. They’re mostly flat, which is why hardcore hikers often scorn them, and some are busy on weekends. They range in length from a little more than a mile to a little more than seven miles. Are these walks or hikes? You decide.

Here are five Southern California trails that do something most hikes don’t — take you to the edge of the ocean. They’re mostly flat, which is why hardcore hikers often scorn them, and some are busy on weekends. They range in length from a little more than a mile to a little more than seven miles. Are these walks or hikes? You decide. Either way, they’re part of a vast, incomplete project known as the California Coastal Trail. The idea is to link and build coastal trails so that a hiker could cover the state’s entire coast, a journey of perhaps