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...I would be waiting until after the election to do any work. The market in California is extremely uncertain right now. Your investment...

You might wonder how an animal the size of a mountain lion can sustain itself in the "wild" these days with the degree of developm...

Americans have been led into this narrative that goes like this: setting aside land for parks and preserves and open space in general is ba...

I just found this out today when I reviewed my DNA test results. To learn why that's significant for distance runners, go here .

Boy am I glad I'm going to Africa instead of Central Asia. And the California coast was even cooler than usual, which is a phenomenon k...

You know how your mom sends you all those emails with THIS IS SO CUTE1!1!!!! blinking in 40-point purple font, and it's either something...

Didn't see any sharks though. The red triangle disappointed me!

From left: Sutter Buttes, Lassen, Shasta, Hood, Thielsen. As I mentioned before, I went through a phase where I wanted to convince people...

If you haven't seen images of the Russian forest fires, go here . If you have and you want to see first-person video of someone almost ...

Have you found a place to volunteer yet? Have a park or forest you like and want to help keep it in good shape for the community and the ne...

I just ran across this website and wanted to plug it. A lot of these watersheds are also open space and recreation areas, like Rancho Pena...

Read Mike Palmer's account here .

A Bay Area city government (San Ramon) is disallowing rebuttals on their ballot measure and moving their council meetings around to avoid ha...

As with many things in life, more does not equal better. I had been wondering about whether us distance runners could put our proclivities ...

Motivated by the missing person case that's going on right now (see article before this one ), I called up the SD County Sheriff's o...

This situation is ready-made for the army of runners pre-trained in organized search methods that I mentioned just a couple days ago . A me...

Great news. You'll be able to take the trolley from Old Town to UCSD , AND we get to keep Rose Canyon. Win-win.

Glucosamine. Image credit Hopkins Arthritis Foundation . Here's the study (here's the original journal article ). Bottom line...

It seems that once or twice a year, there's someone lost or missing in a park or wilderness or canyon, and there's a general call fo...

Oftentimes I'll find myself thinking "I'd really like to do a one-way run on Trail XYZ, but I can't find anyone to drop me ...

Do you know what to do in case of heat exhaustion or heat stroke? Do you know how to tell the difference, and which is worse? Yesterday I ...

I shall establish my sports journalism credibility thus: the sum total I know about LeBron James is as follows. 1) He is a professional bas...

As of now the funnest footrace held every May in San Francisco is banning alcohol . People couldn't figure out how to have fun without ...

Riverside County now has an Adopt-a-Trail program ; apparently works the same as the Adopt-a-Highway programs we're already familiar wit...

The city just tried to commission a several-million dollar environmental impact report for this project, which homeowners don't want. I...

A neighbor recently moved away and offered me all her spray paint. As an emerging power in the art world I snapped up the supplies, knowing...

I ask because a flurry of papers in the last month or two has shown that they've racked up a bunch of oxygen-efficiency mutations, unsur...

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 ...