July 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm » Comments (0)

This last full moon, I backpacked up to the Kern Canyon stock bridge in Sequoia National Park. I started at Lewis Camp Trailhead, in Sequoia National Monument, just outside the ...more »

June 26th, 2008 at 5:29 am » Comments (2)

One special characteristic of the Sierra Nevada is that it's a rare example of a high mountain range in a Mediterranean climate, which means that it is dry and sunny ...more »

January 29th, 2008 at 7:35 pm » Comments (0)

An enumeration of the elements of California might proceed as follows: The San Andreas Fault The California Current The Sierra Nevada The Central Valley Redwood Forests The San Andreas Fault The Pacific and North American Plates, two ...more »

January 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm » Comments (0)

Armen sat on his cabin doorstep, chatting with his neighbor about trail crew women, watching thunderheads gather over the canyon. After awhile, it seemed that some smoke was mingling with ...more »

January 14th, 2008 at 10:00 pm » Comments (0)

The job was good medicine, but Armen would feel even better with cash in his pocket. Inconveniently, his paycheck would be deposited directly to his bank account, so he’d need ...more »

January 13th, 2008 at 9:37 am » Comments (0)

His prospects didn’t look good, and they felt a little worse. As a rule, getting a job wouldn’t be a picnic without a car, and that rule was fully enforced ...more »

May 14th, 2007 at 9:52 pm » Comments (0)

Along the northeastern shore of the Great Ocean, a long, thin strip of land stretches 1500 miles, in about as straight a line as Nature will allow Herself to draw. ...more »

March 26th, 2007 at 10:32 pm » Comments (0)

The boundary between Southern and Northern California ignores the compass points, wrapping around the San Joaquin Valley from Tejon to Tehachapi and northward along the Sierra Crest to ...more »

March 26th, 2007 at 10:22 pm » Comments (0)

Maps generally depict the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles as hundreds of miles apart, and their residents would have you believe it were thousands, but the facts on ...more »

February 17th, 2007 at 3:53 am » Comments (0)

That morning after the first rain, broad and shallow puddles appeared everywhere, and all the roads were covered with a sheen of wet oil. He collected his lunch sack and stomped ...more »