It was the final meeting of the Boeing Outdoor Adventure Club, the 2016 Holiday Party. My membership in this organization stretches back almost 30 years, back to when it was the McDonnell Douglas Backpacking Club. So many memories, so many adventures. It’s the friendships, touched with nostalgia, which caused me to brave the rush hour …
Month: October 2017
P22
A week ago my wife and I attended the Urban Wildlife Week kickoff at King Gillette Ranch in Malibu Canyon featuring a screening of ‘The Cat that changed America’. Yesterday, Urban Wildlife Week culminated at Griffith Park with the second annual P-22 Day Festival. For those of you unfamiliar what P22 stands for, P22 (Puma …
A letter, a map, a new trail, and a personal loss
Earlier this month we received a thank you letter from the Santa Barbara County Trails Council. Included in the envelope was a trail guide for the Midland School Trails. The Midland School Trails is one of the Santa Barbara County trail systems we have supported in the past and the Lover’s Loop Trail is a …
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Up the Hoh River
How long does it take to get to know a place? The answer depends on the place and is contingent on how one defines the word ‘know’. There is also a difference between feeling connected to something and having intimate knowledge of it. One may come to the realization that you might never really know a place, …
Dirtbagger or Hippublican
Last month, on the final night of my Pacific Northwest road trip, I pulled into an In-&-Out in Salinas. It had been a long day of driving, starting near Salem, Oregon, with the vain hope of escaping the smoke from fire after fire which plagued the west this summer. In retrospect, I probably could have …
Adventure-to-Adventure 