I love to take people to my mountain places for the first time and introduce them to hopw great the mountains are.Even better is taking city dogs for an adventure in the wilderness. Today Bear and Gwen met the creek for the first time.Much silliness, wrestling and swimming good times were had. These are two …
If I could spend every day off like yesterday, that would just be fantastic. It was a chilly foggy May afternoon and we were at Big Bear Lake and ready to fish. It was windy. Why do I always forget what a pain in the ass fishing in the wind is? I actually only cast out …
It’s May in Southern California. In my little mountain town that means spring is finally here at six thousand feet. As I drove down Kuffel Canyon with my grandma in the car the other day rain streaked the windshield and we admired the Dog Wood Trees in bloom that filled the sky of …
I watched the bats flitting across the darkening sky ahead of me as my feet flew over the dirt road. It was almost eight p.m. and it was getting dark fast in this jungle like forest. I’d hoped on my twilight ten mile run this evening to see some wild life; deer or bear, …
When I was 18 my friends and I used to sneak off to Mexico. Okay, for the life of me, I can’t remember if I told my parents I was going off to Mexico with Jenn or not. On one hand I was not a teenager who lied to her parents, ever. On …