Amongst the Oaks of Hondo Canyon Trail
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
An Earthen Awakening
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
The Poetry of Silence: The Redwood Forests of Santa Cruz
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
Vincent Gulch to Big Horn Mine to Mine Gulch Flat
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
Puff Daddy: Foraging and Cooking My 1st Puffball Mushroom
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
Hiking 25 Millions Years Back in Time at Vasquez Rocks
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
An Infinite Wonder
Location: Elsmere Canyon, Newhall, California Date: February 12, 2011 Music: Grouper – Blackout from Way Their Crept… Read More
A Perfect Sunday in Chiquito Basin
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