There is a dirt road that I like to run down in the winter months. It hugs the cliffs and muddy edges of the National Forest. Hawks fly through the treetops and deer scamper about in the Manzanita bushes. I rarely see these creatures, all I see for the most part is the …
I can tell in my sleep if it’s snowing outside. I may not have amazing Snow ESP but when it snows people have to chain up their cars and trucks and when they drive by my house with tire chains at four A.M. I can hear them. Even in a deep sleep I can …
The goal today was to run about six miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. Snow Flake and I had done ten miles at Holcomb Valley the day before and we were both pretty beat up. On top of that we had a late start to the morning. We did accomplish six miles along the creek …
There is a place I love to run at sunset. It sits at about seven thousand feet and you have glorious views of the valley below this forest as the sun crashes into the clouds and the ocean many miles in the distance. There is a tiny alpine lake and when I run …
I think I just had my first tick episode. I was driving in the mountains and I made a move to brush something off my leg and found that the something was embedded in my skin, wretched it out, painfully, and am now seriously wondering if that was a tick. I have no idea …