The Santa Barbara County chaparral shrublands form my best-loved hiking region, also called Los Padres National Forest. However, the much higher “alpine” areas also summon the soul to breathe free ...
A whopping 4 million people cram into Yosemite National Park each year. It's easy to see why: This is the home of the vertiginous Half Dome and the roaring Nevada Fall. Basically, it's bucket list ...
Bowman Lake could have been about all yours this week. In the span of 5 miles, only one person was sighted, a happy guy with a small tent at the primitive campground at the upper end of the lake. Not ...
The jewel-like lakes of the High Sierra in Yosemite National Park are awe-inspiring sights. But for more than a hundred years they've also been biologically disrupted, stocked each year with ...