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June 7, 2012
On Safari in the Bodie Hills: A Great Place to Visit (and Take Care of)
[From Wilderness Magazine, 2011-2012. Click here to see the full issue in pdf format. Click here to learn more about the Bodie Hills Conservation Alliance.]
October 5, 2011
August 31, 2011
What the Bear Ate
I KNEW BETTER. I'd had a bear break into the trailer a couple of summers ago. I'd left the door unlocked; she'd climbed in, opened the cupboard above the fridge, cleaned it of its contents, left the cupboard doors open, and continued on her way. She didn't get into the fridge. Or break anything. The only mess she left was down the hillside, on the ground: an empty marshmallow bag, scraps of cardboard from a box of graham crackers, and such—and a good dark pile of poop.
This time, after a...
July 20, 2011
Nothing Lasts Forever
Mammoth Pass to Reds Meadow, July 7, 2011NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, said Jasper, aged 6, before brushing his teeth. Maybe the sky, I said. And the earth, he added.
I don't know about the earth, I said. If we keep treating it the way we have.
June 9, 2011
Blood, Guts & Tarweed: MTB Dawn Patrol on the Ragged Fringe of Sequoia N.P.
From The Explorer's Guide to Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada, 2nd Edition
Photo by Peter Amend, courtesy VCVB. Click here for full-color gallery.
WE MEET AT MARK HIRNI'S house at 7 AM sharp. The morning is cool, the sun still procrastinating in the depths behind Case Mountain and the Great Western Divide. A rafter of wild turkeys grazes on the neighbor's lawn.
June 6, 2011
Caption Contest!
What do you mean I have to go back? (Winning caption by Carole Daneri. Photo by Aaron Horowitz, Bluebird Imaging.)
After much consideration and lengthy, sometimes violent debate—resulting in at least one arm-twisting and two lost toenails among the various, far-flung members of our secret panel of judges—an official winner has been chosen! Please raise your respective beverage recepticles for Carole Daneri of Facebookland for her clever and amusing caption:
"What do you mean I have to go...
May 19, 2011
Mammoth Summer Fun
Alaska Airlines Magazine, Horizon Edition, May 2011Despite 2011's complete glossing-over of spring (not counting the lovely month of Juneuary that followed upon the Great Christmas Blizzard of 2010), we're still hanging onto the deeper belief that summer in the high country is why we're here...
