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Trails and Tribulations

Amongst the Oaks of Hondo Canyon Trail

By On February 21, 2016

We were hoping the recent rainstorm had dumped enough precipitation to awaken the mycelium to fruit along the Hondo Trail in Topanga Canyon this weekend (a very pleasant incline hike that takes… Read More

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An Earthen Awakening

By On December 8, 2014

We hiked this weekend lured by the smell of damp soil after the epic Southern California rainstorms, hoping to find fruiting chanterelles. We didn’t find those golden Cantharellus californicus in my secret… Read More

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The Poetry of Silence: The Redwood Forests of Santa Cruz

By On November 17, 2011

some ask praise of their fellows but i being otherwise made compose curves and yellows, angles or silences to a less erring end -e.e. cummings Photos taken at Henry Cowell Redwoods State… Read More

Daily Pontification

Vincent Gulch to Big Horn Mine to Mine Gulch Flat

By On June 12, 2011

Growing up, I used to make several winter trips into the furthest eastern part of the Angeles Forest to Wrightwood to snowboard on some of the slushiest-iciest snow even in ideal conditions… Read More

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Puff Daddy: Foraging and Cooking My 1st Puffball Mushroom

By On June 11, 2011

I had just wrapped up a 6 mile hike near Wrightwood this afternoon, traversing from Vincent’s Gulch past Big Horn Mine and back, when I decided I want to investigate another path… Read More

Trails and Tribulations

Hiking 25 Millions Years Back in Time at Vasquez Rocks

By On April 25, 2011

Unless you’re a time traveler, it’s not often you utter the words, “Are those Roman soldiers down there?!” while hiking (you can’t see them, but underneath the cross is a “legion” of… Read More

Trails and Tribulations

An Infinite Wonder

By On February 14, 2011

Location: Elsmere Canyon, Newhall, California Date: February 12, 2011 Music: Grouper – Blackout from Way Their Crept… Read More

Miscellaneous

A Perfect Sunday in Chiquito Basin

By On February 23, 2010

Spent all of Sunday this weekend with Kolby of 100Hikes.com fame in search of more mushrooms and other fungal forms, as he wanted to visit the very trail Emily and I visited… Read More