My next big scheme has percolated into my brain. I've been looking at Joshua Tree National Park closely. There is a trail from the entrance at Black Rock Campground to the Northern Entrance Station known as the California Riding and... Continue Reading →
Another nice day has popped up. The high is expected to be in the upper 80s, within my comfort zone for a hike. So I take my trusty Suzuki and even more trusty dog Avery, head out to Fillmore, turn... Continue Reading →
Prepare for an NSFW photo at the bottom... I have been blogging since long before WordPress even existed. This is an old post from the early 2000s when I had a web page and a domain. (The hike I blogged... Continue Reading →
#EpicTrailFail If you spend time in the outdoors, eventually something will go wrong. It’s a law of nature. But if you survive, those epic failures become the best stories! We’ve all read about amazing accomplishments in the wild, but now... Continue Reading →
Continuing my dearth of new blogs, I thought I'd reblog this, revised and with a few different photos - including one I just took on my visit to my childhood stomping grounds back east. It is one of my earliest... Continue Reading →
Preview in new tab I was out here last time August of 2018, almost a year ago. Since then, we had a normal winter. What an incredible change has set in! We had an unusually cool stretch in mid-July so... Continue Reading →
Here is what I did instead. I've been fairly sedentary for the last three months. We've finally had a rainy winter. I've been working part-time and somehow the cold and rain always managed to come when I'm off work. The... Continue Reading →
One of my favorite hiking destinations! I have been going out to the Sespe for about 35 years now. I never fail to enjoy it. It is vast, 219,000 acres of land with hundreds of miles of little-used trail plus... Continue Reading →
First, I want you to read this article: Snowbound Then I'll discuss it from my POV. Okay, done? Stephen Olshansky's youth sounds very similar to mine. He was born the same year as I, 1956. In high school, Otter was... Continue Reading →
