Mount Diablo Falls Trail

I hadn’t been to Mount Diablo since my trip up Eagle Peak in November. But today was one of the first clear days after two weeks of daily rain, so Elizabeth and I took advantage of it with a quick morning hike to Mount Diablo’s Falls Trail.

When we started at 8:30 in the morning it was [...]

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 [...]