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Carrizo Tom
The Carrizo Plain in the hinterlands of San Luis Obispo County, CA as seen from atop the I first drove the road 12 years ago. Over the years since then I’ve seen more pronghorn antelope than people out...
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Oyster Mushrooms
Harvesting oyster mushrooms in the mountains of Santa Barbara County. I’m just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it? —Joe Pesci With recent rains having finally fallen after the usual long dry...
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Ice Company Ads (1920s)
This post is an addition to a previous entry about the history of the ice can stoves found in California’s Los Padres National Forest (The Ice Can Stove: A Brief History). These are makeshift wood...
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Gibraltar Rock Waterfall
A seldom flowing waterfall in the Los Padres National Forest, below Gibraltar Rock, on a small tributary of Rattlesnake Canyon creek.The pool at the foot of the falls.
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La Cumbre Peak Snow
East Camino Cielo Road in the Los Padres National Forest. A light snow dusted the crest of the Santa Ynez Mountains above Santa Barbara yesterday afternoon. Although it was Saturday, the low cloud...
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Chorro Grande Falls, Snow Frosted Pine Mountain
Chorro Grande Falls with Pine Mountain Ridge in the background, Ventura County California.
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White Ledge Peak, Santa Ynez Mountains
White Ledge Peak, the dots noting our route. From Home to Hills I waken in the three o’clock hour after four hours of sleep and shuffle across the cold creaky floor, flick on the heater and proceed to...
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Manzanita Flower Tea
Manzanita flowers. Manzanita is flowering at the moment. The Chumash Indians ate manzanita berries or fruits by preparing them in a variety of different ways and other Native Americans used the leaves...
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Godwin Canyon, Los Padres National Forest
The gateway to Godwin Canyon. I hiked up Godwin Canyon a few days ago. It’d been about a year since I’d been up thataway and in that time somebody slapped together some sort of sloppy grow set-up. I...
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California Condor
David Stillman at large in the SLP with a wing tip primary feather from a California condor measuring over 18 inches long. The condor is North America’s largest flying bird and can have a wingspan of...
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When In France
(Guest Post) France is one of the most popular tourist locations in the world, receiving more than 82 million foreign tourists annually. The country is famous for its pristine locations that are both...
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Dragon’s Back Ridge, Carrizo Plain
Coiled barbwire on Carrizo Plain I drove out to the Carrizo Plain National Monument after a few days of intermittent rain showers. It is a semi-arid grassland of several hundred thousand acres that...
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Cachuma Mountain, Los Padres National Forest
The view looking at Hurricane Deck from Cachuma Mountain on Monday afternoon. Looking east from the slope of Cachuma Mountain. The, or a, route up Cachuma Mountain. A butterfly decided to fly through...
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Alice Keck Park Park
I went to Starr King preschool in downtown Santa Barbara, which is across the street from Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens shown in the photo above. As a little kid I came to know the public...
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Astray Again on White Mountain
White Mountain on the far right. It had been almost twenty years since I last made the short hike from Gibraltar Road to White Mountain. A couple of friends and I hiked up to its rocky crags for an...
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Astray Again on White Mountain II
(. . .continued from Astray Again on White Mountain I) Late afternoon view looking east from White Mountain. “The general rules of life clearly state that if you’re ready for something, it won’t happen...
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Coyote Gulch Waterfall, Utah
A waterfall in Coyote Gulch in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. (c) Clint Elliott
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