Castle Crags Trail

A late-November hike up the Castle Crags Trail to Castle Dome.

Bears on the Trinity Alps Stuart Fork

Elizabeth and I stayed in Weaverville last night, still awestruck from the huge flocks of geese we saw in the Central Valley. Weaverville is a town of a few thousand people nestled in the Klamath Mountains, just south of the half-million acre Trinity Alps Wilderness. We stopped for an excellent dinner at La Grange, where [...]

Gray Lodge Wildlife Area

Elizabeth and I drove through the Central Valley on our way to the Klamath Mountains today. The farmland was so flat, the roads were perfectly straight and named after letters in the alphabet.

We were on Road Z. At one point, the road’s pavement just ended and turned into gravel. There were no other cars around [...]

Briones Regional Park from Alhambra Creek

Elizabeth and I have gone on a morning hike every Thanksgiving for the last three years. This year was no different.

We’d gone to Las Trampas in previous years, but today I wanted to try somewhere new, yet still nearby. I chose to hike the northeast part of Briones Regional Park. It’s just 20 minutes away [...]