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Warning: actual nature and running in this post. UCSD spring break came and went all too fast, but at least I got to spend some time on the...

Story here . I just wish I could've been there!

You have to be living under a rock if you're a runner and you haven't heard about the effort to honor Chelsea King's memory . I...

Good news. Notice that this is in Walnut Creek , which is kind of the Orange County of the Bay Area; no communes there, but plenty of attor...

I really didn't start this blog as an environmental blog. It's really an outdoors blog, which means I write about running, cool pla...

"...city officials told the Has they were violating several city laws that require that 40% of residential yards to be landscaped predo...

One of many reasons I enjoy distance running is that I imagine it's an activity that humans are made for, that's all tied into cultu...

Plumas is a remote, beautiful and fascinating forest in the transition zone between the Sierras and the Cascades. Image credit Charles Sope...

Interested in preservation? There's a great article at the San Diego Hiker blog with links to a lot of the local foundations working ha...

Think your property rights mean diddly squat to the power company? Think again. SDG&E has started eminent domain proceedings to force ...

...in Pennsylvania, at least - was killed in my home county of Berks in 1874 , right off what is now the Appalachian Trail, maybe 10 miles e...

There's not much to be said after the sad news from Lake Hodges today, except for the community to continue supporting Chelsea King'...

http://findchelsea.com/ TEEN GIRL GOES MISSING WHILE JOGGING IN RANCHO BERNARDO: Massive search launched February 26, 2010 (4:15 a.m.) - She...

Guns are now legal in our national parks. What do YOU think ?

Image credit: Paul Magnanti's PCT Thru-Hike [Added later: Endurance Guy Toby Guillette ran this section the day after I did, but th...

The gene is associated with producing new mitochondria as well as reducing oxidation damage and inflammation . Original article here , dige...

I'm all for more preserved wilderness and open space; I'm also all for resepecting private property. These two priorities do not co...

That Pony Express route just won't leave me alone. I ran across a set of outstanding photos by some offroad folks who did a piece of t...

I'm glad to be getting some time on trails around SoCal. El Capitan was a fun little slog Saturday; from the top of you can look back a...

I lived in the East Bay for 11 years, and less than a year after I leave, Oakland cleverly re-starts its marathon . Hey Oakland Marathon, d...

This made me laugh.

A distance runner and evolutionary biologist decided to look at barefoot runners. Only question: do you go to the physical environment tha...

Here's a scary encounter between two families : two human brothers and a mountain lion mom and her adolescent son. Given how many outd...

Chron article here .

Someone is trying to re-name the Bay Area's fantastic Mt. Diablo to Mt. Reagan. Why? Apparently he thinks Mt. Diablo is an evil name...

is this . Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast, for it is 26.2.

The Vikings are telling Minneapolis to build them a stadium or they'll leave (not the main focus of this article on football economics ...

I've completed my little projecty of running the coast of San Diego County from Oceanside to the border with Mexico. (I used the same r...

Follow-up: professional paleolith Loren Cordain MD was asked to comment on the paleolithic sorghum paper I wrote about before . Of course ...

Astute Californians will have noticed (and in many cases felt first-hand) this pattern: 30 December - 5.8 earthquake under Mexicali (about ...

Phase 1 is complete . Five minutes ago I planted a bunch of redwood cones today in front of my house in San Diego. Don't you understan...

If you drive east on I-8 toward El Cajon, you'll notice an impressive red mountain to the northeast of the freeway. That's El Capit...

Great article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a real estate agent in the East Bay who actively helps broker land use deals for the var...

I will be able to bash paleo more effectively if I actually do it. My friend Tom isn't hardcore Paleo, but he is hardcore CrossFit.*...

The vegetation along the trails was so brilliantly green this weekend that after an hour on trail my eyes were color-fatigued and the expose...

You should sign up; it benefits San Diego County parks . Never did an event like this before but want to support the parks? This should be...

A central controversy in current exercise science essentially boils down to endurance vs strength. What do you get out of (for example) spr...

New find in Mozambique shows that some humans were already relying on grains 100,000 years ago , way the hell back in the paleolithic (if th...

1) If you live in SoCal you're already way ahead of me on this, but in case you're not: check out the wine selection at Henry's...

As part of my little run-the-whole-coast project I was back there today - very green and woodsy, which I miss. Highlight: I saw three of ...

Yes, the Horseshoe Trail and French Creek in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where I was back for the holidays. I had read about the Horseshoe ...

None. Who cares.

In doing my homework for my upcoming weekend hikes in San Bernardino Natl Forest and Mt. San Jacinto State Wilderness, I was fortunate to ru...

Yes. Bear 2, Al Qaeda 0 . For added fun: imagine reporting that one to your local Al Qaeda commander, or explaining how Allah let this cr...

I made my first real trip out to Anza-Borrego today, saw me some rams and some oasis and some petroglyphs, but what I really noticed was th...

Thanks to a certain unnamed physical therapist and her very lucky groom for a very fun time. Great to see everyone. It was a typical gorge...

Tonight I was running through Rose Canyon when I had the good fortune to run into Debby Knight from Friends of Rose Canyon . Having just mo...

This video is incredible, and scary as hell. Definitely a keeper if you've a) been on a 38 degree slope and wondered how set the layer...

In this holiday season,* it is important to remember the greatest gift we can give to our fellow humans. You may be tempted to say: "...

For all my kvetching about "I miss the Bay", I do have to admit it's nice going for a swim in reasonably warm ocean water at t...

I refer to San Diego's Trans-County Sea to Sea (Salton to Pacific). Not finished yet, but neither was the Bay Rim Trail (or whatever i...

Gray blankets damp earth Spiderwebs sagging with fog While moss and ferns drink. Quick hilly run on Matt Davis Trail , Mt. Tam. Started in ...

Disclaimer: I greatly enjoy California's state park system and I realize that it faces under-appreciated challenges, like for example t...

Right on the border between the state park and the Mt. Diablo Foothills regional park is this awesome formation: (credit to ParsecTraveller,...

New Contra Costa County images. Go look. They appear 1) to have been taken during the winter, when the grass is green, thus decreasing con...

Real summer days at the beach. 89, humid, and you can't wait to jump into 78 degree water where there's surf (but no Maverick'...

I'm looking for trail events this fall in San Diego and SoCal in general, and not finding any nice centralized lists - TheSchedule.com s...

I'm putting together my fall race schedule and I'm populating it for the first time with races in the southern half of CA, since I...

What? This: View Larger Map A while ago I noticed this formation on satellite maps. Not only are they straight lines a mile on a side, the...