We should be counting our blessings that here we are in California on a seventy three degree February day. We should be hiking in snow shoes instead of shorts. I really, really wish we had some snow Usually February is a time when few people go hiking at San Gorgonio and the ones that …
Winter in the mountains make you feel like you are far away from the sand, the shore, the malls and the sweaty deserts of Southern California. Winter in the mountains almost makes you believe sometimes, you can close your eyes and wake up in Colorado. There are mountain slopes, glowing white with fresh …
Big Bear City might be the meth capital of Big Bear. There are quite a few sad and desperate mountain towns in this area but Big Bear City has got to be one of the most pathetic of them all. Cars sit on blocks in front yards. Trash lines the streets. The houses …
Living in a mountain forest a little more than a hundred miles from the Pacific Ocean there are many days that we can look over the rim of the mountain and see a sea of haze and clouds five thousand feet down below. It happens constantly in June. In California …
Every one always asks me how do I live this mountain life? How do I deal with the snow and the fires, and the fire storm evacuations and the bears and the cougars? The same way they deal with the smog, the heat and the gansta’s in the valley below me. I love my mountain life …