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I'm heading up to San Gorgonio Peak tomorrow. I've mentioned to people that in one year of off-and-on trail running in San Diego Co...

S/he's a real winner. All mad at me because I said the solo-around-the-world girl's parents (plus the Everest-climbing kid's pa...

My apologies if you actually waded through my kvetching in this post. If not, you didn't miss anything. For the record I did run 20 mi...

We've all had that experience of running or hiking somewhere and saying, "You know, right here in this valley/mountain/prairie, you...

With illustrations . Hyperboleandahalf is hysterical. Hat tip ERV .

Agreed. Why can't we have sauerkraut after races in California?

Friggin' hooray. Only 14 more counties to go. You think I can count the parts of San Mateo and San Francisco and Marin I did for my ar...

[Added 21 June 2010: turns out I'm not the only person to have such doubts. The whole article is worth reading but what jumped out to ...

Pacaya Volcano has been in the news recently for erupting. Really, it's erupting more now. I was there two years ago and it wasn...

Eagle Creek , Ocean Minded and STM Bags volunteered for trail maintenance work at Elfin Forest . Thanks guys! I'll be sure to shop t...

This post pretty much states my own misgivings about public admiration for this feat. If I told you I let my 13 year old kid do something ...

It's cheaper, it's easier, and makes your home more San Diegish. Other reasons here . Theodore Payne is a native plants specialist...

I really, really love Northern California and wouldn't mind living in Humboldt County specifically. But if stereotypes ever have a basi...

Article here .

I just learned about this only because it was in the minutes of my development's owner's organization. Just incredible. Fortunatel...

More information here . I'll go out on a limb and say it might actually be fun, plus then people can't keep muttering "Sure th...

A judge has said that there has to be a period for public comment on the proposed SDG&E powerlink. Here are some news sources and the o...

Turns out that they already "re-ride" it. Info here ; info on our run of the last leg from Martinez to Oakland here .

Cross-posted at my blog The Late Enlightenment . Looking toward the south side from the Genesee Highlands area. Acrylic on canvas. When you...

Looks like Cal State Northridge didn't have what it takes . Them thar East Coast types can play some volleyball, huh?

Berks County, PA needs folks to help by being on trail 3 hours a week and helping or answering questions from other trail users. More info ...

Yellow summer grass; All that remains past warm spring From green winter rains. Warrior dreams and poppies in Rose Canyon: Image credit to M...

I finished running the civilian part of the San Diego County coast some months ago but if I want to do the whole county including Pendleton...

There's now a Facebook group for Oakland's Urban Paths . Berkeley has a great path system too. I lived there for a decade and by ...

Named after settler, postmaster and entrepreneur Louis Rose . I'd heard of him before because there's a small monument to him on UC...

This isn't exactly about outdoors stuff but it certainly is about San Diego. Today Dr. Ellen Beck received a James Irvine Foundation Le...

I don't really follow pro sports, but since a) I like Vancouver and b) I like pissing off people from LA, I will do my best to remind pe...

....up Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) in Anhui Province, China. These pictures are straight out of a Sung landscape painting ; seriously, clic...

He's flashing joggers . That in itself might seem funny but there are further safety considerations when someone is behaving like this.

People always seem surprised that people who die on Everest are left there. Look: at that altitude, it's all you can do to carry your ...

(Cross-posting this from my more sciencey blog). If your computer has an accelerometer, you can join the early warning network. With the o...

Given the recent SoCal earthquakes , this may be interesting: a researcher watching toads in Italy noticed that they left their breeding ar...

Warning: it's from The Onion .

I just came back from a run in Rancho Penasquitos which was a perfect example of a problem I've been having for a year or so, which is t...

The Schuylkill River Heritage Area received funding to expand the trail and connect towns along the river. I'll be hitting this next t...

David Western, adjunct biology professor at UCSD and founder of the African Conservation Centre in Kenya, has won the 2010 World Ecology Aw...

The finches survived Monday night okay, although it gave all of us caring neighbors a start when I saw they weren't in the their artifi...

Finches are interesting buggers. Zebra finches in Australia have been studied because they have regional accents; yes, you really can tell ...

1) Here's a new blog by folks hiking the Pacific Crest Trail this year with the intention of raising awareness for kids' outdoor ed...

This is cool. I'm a geek so I also like watching animated satellite weather maps of the Eastern Pacific and looking up to see if approa...

They're putting in a new trail up at Trestles , and regular surfers are unhappy about it. You know those kids in school who got mad if y...

I used to think that all the interesting stuff was in Northern California , but I've been awakened twice by earthquakes in the last week...

Here is my mother's balcony in Pennsylvania in summer and winter. See if you can guess which is which. Spot the difference!

Can you imagine going for a hike to see a waterfall, and getting arrested and imprisoned by a dictatorship? That's what happened to thr...

One of my favorite writers on human genetics, Razib Khan, runs across an Art Devany interview and gives his interesting two cents . In a nu...

Bad news: climber death was related to altitude sickness on Mt. Shasta . Most people think 14,000' is low for an actual death from alt...

Story here . "Land preservation efforts in Silicon Valley and surrounding areas have had only a minor effect on housing construction, ...

For what it's worth, I love Tom Stienstra's columns, and he's been a great source of outdoors info as well as an outstanding adv...

One of the main tricks special interests have to keep the public from acting in their own interest is to polarize an issue on the political ...

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...