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From Jane Huber/bahiker After I finished up at the hospital yesterday I got up in them thar hills on the Peninsula, specifically El Corte...

French Trail, Redwood Preserve. The Platonic form of trails. Image credit alltrails.com . Ah, the Bay...I'll be around for two mon...

1998 may finally have been the year my fate was sealed as a future Californian. It had been an El Niño year, so there was snow well into Ma...

When I ran across this sad fellow on the beach in Malibu some years ago, for some reason I had the urge to drape a melting clock over him. ...

These pictures were taken in State College and Cumru Township, Pennsylvania in the autumns of 1994 through 1996. There's no contest -...

I'm scanning in photos and here are some of Jekyll Island. Georgia's coastline is pretty deserted, undeservedly so. That said, you...

Fires of any kind, even from a gas-powered camp stove, should be made illegal in California's forests from April through October. The ...

Story here , more video here . It's not news that national forests in California are damaged by grow operations and this is the highes...

From Boing Boing Hey. That's no good. I guess nothing should surprise me after finding out that there are bull sharks in creeks in Mi...

Done at Johns Hopkins. They should've adjusted the list by per capita consumption, although I bet it still wouldn't change much.

That would be a big "no", because we I don't think anyone wants our traffic more screwed up than it already is and parking dow...

A good article with lots of photos at the OB Rag . In terms of forest damage, fortunately, not that bad. Thanks to Frank Gormlie for going...

No I didn't run it. I thought about going up to pace but ended up not being able to leave San Diego that day due to other commitments...

San Diego cyclists are being targeted by jerks with a pellet gun. (From bikesd.org .) People have been shot at with pellets - the kind tha...

Ceterum censeo ...okay so maybe I'm not the great Roman senator and orator Cato (I have an extra N in my name) but you get the idea. Th...

Article from Sports Illustrated here . It's very strange that colleges are whining that Grand Canyon U. is doing this to make money. I...

February 2013. I was there in regular running gear (shorts and running shoes and T-shirt). Very pretty and the cold was okay, in fact grea...

(Cross posted to my blog the Lucky Atheist .) I'd been meaning to post the pictures from the Canyon Cleanup back in April. A few of us...

These canyons are: a. the most beautiful springtime place I've ever seen in San Diego (pictures taken in March and April) and b. of ques...

To see how fast SoCal's forests are burning away, scroll down. Finally got up to the high peaks in the Angeles (besides Baldy). NICE....

Jack Elliott has a great piece up about how marijuana cultivation - that is, marijuana prohibition - is causing damage to national forests,...

There are croton shrubs in various places but there is one in southeast Asia that produces an oil which causes a rash similar to poison ivy ...