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“He may be just a tramp, a guy that likes to roam about this great country without any special aim, just to thank the Lord for these beautiful mountains.”
-B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Tag Archives: Wilderness
Otter Point, Gaviota Coast
Posted in Santa Barbara
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Tagged Beach, Gaviota Coast, Hiking, Nature, Ocean, Outdoors, Santa Barbara, Sea Otters, Surf, Wilderness, Wildlife
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Ridgetop Tank, Santa Ynez Mountains
The ephemeral pool forms on the bedrockhigh on a sandstone ridgehundreds of feet above the creek, otherwise filling the canyon with the sound of its rushing water,but for the displaced croak of frogshole up in a lone pond in the … Continue reading →
Posted in Santa Barbara
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Tagged Hiking, Hiking (2), Landscapes, Los Padres National Forest, Nature, Outdoors, Rocks, Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez Mountains, Wilderness, Wildlife
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The Extraordinary Rains of August 2023
The organic curves of chaparral-cloaked Condor National Forest. I’m growing like a seedRain’s been falling on me — KT Tunstall, Feel It All “I’m wondering if we won’t see August thunderstorms.” I wrote that in June, a freak premonition. The … Continue reading →
Posted in Santa Barbara
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Tagged Backpacking, Camping, Hiking, Landscapes, Los Padres National Forest, Nature, Santa Barbara, Sespe Wilderness, Wilderness, wildflowers, Wildlife
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The Mysterious Three Stone Stack
Who? Why? When? The rocks did not fall from the wall or ceiling of the cave that I could tell. There is no trace of a break or fracture in the cave or some such occurrence that may have sent … Continue reading →
Posted in Santa Barbara
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Tagged Adventure, Artifacts, backcountry, Caves, Chumash, Hiking, Hiking (2), Los Padres National Forest, Native Americans, Santa Barbara, Wilderness
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The Twelve-Inch Experience, Baron Ranch Corridor
Humboldt lily seed pod. “Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath the rhododendrons, to find … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arroyo Quemado, Baron Ranch, Gaviota Coast, Hiking, Microplastic, Nature, Pacific Ocean, Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez Mountains, Wilderness, Wildlife
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