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Arizona Trail 2021

Learning to travel in a new way. Goats are good. Arizona Trail Sep - Oct 2021 Elk country White Horse Hills Setting out. Kelly Tank...

A Summer Haboob in Borrego Springs

We visit Borrego Spr. at least once during the summer for some sensible walking, swimming, dawn tracking in the dunes, and we're always...

Pyramid + Rosa Pt + Mile High

I joined hiking book author Scott Turner (coauthor of Afoot and Afield in San Diego County and author of Hike The Parks Mountaineers...

Election Week 2020 Hiding In The Desert

During the 2016 election, I avoided the noise and camped in the desert east of San Diego's mountains. I had no idea who won the election...

Granite Mountain

On October 25, 2020, I joined the team of Don Endicott, Scott Turner, and Sicco Rood to hike Granite Mountain. Weather at the base of the...

Bobcat 'tracks to go' & bonus battle.

Nice outing yesterday in a local riparian canyon to photograph stuff and check on a trail camera. This particular trail camera has...

When 3 fish = 0 fish.

Took a break from coronavirus news to do some surf-fishing on the incoming tide. Figured I could add some protein to the apocalypse menu...

The bobcats of Rose Canyon

Quest for Harlequin Bug (Murgantia histrionica) eggs

I had seen the egg cases of Harlequin Bugs on the internet for a long time and always hoped to find some. Today was my lucky day. A...