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 hike and run in our national forest which sits just outside my door all the time. You would think I would be aware of the painful make you itch, sting and your skin ooze disgustingly for days plants. Yet every spring and summer I find myself drawn to poison oak and Stinging Nettle …
This month I’m doing the A-Z Blogging challenge and today’s letter is O, as in On the Trail. It has crossed my mind recently that it would be fun to sign up to do Trail Angel stuff along the Pacific Crest Trail. Note I did not say it would be fun to hike the Pacific …