State & Lake

Before I continue with my nice find, I want to first apologize for the mess I made on Sunday.  While at breakfast Sunday morning I decided to mess with this site and a plugin that would add videos to pages.  Well, after a lot of messing around it appears I lost a post and a [...]

When I saw the story of pot farms in the very beautiful Sequoia National Forest I remembered a conversation I had with a friend recently who told me about his finding all sorts of strange campsites during his hikes, some of these miles in to the forest and they look like regular campsites.
The CNN story [...]

Last Wednesday, four hikers found themselves trapped and unable to climb down from the “First Falls” waterfall at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center according to officials.  The hikers had to be rescued by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s helicopter.
The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m., Wednesday when the four, whose names were not released, called 9-1-1 [...]

Photo:  From Monkey Canyon Flickr Pool uploaded by sanserif02.
I’ll be honest, I’ve been a lot of places up in the Angeles National Forest but I have never heard of a Monkey Canyon until Saturday when I met two groups of individuals inquiring if I knew where they could find this place.  The first couple asked [...]

I wanted to post this yesterday assuming I would find some information on the memorial cross between Chilao Visitor Station and Newcomb’s Ranch Inn.  Unfortunately, I found nothing which means I’ll have to return to the scene, or restaurant, to get the scoop.
That aside, I have wanted to make this drive, hike, walk for a [...]

Saturday was a beautiful day for me. Most of last week was a literal drag and I have the carpet burns to prove it. However, after realizing what I needed was iron, B-vitamins, calcium and D, I immediately went out and stocked up vowing to never allow myself to run out again.
While waiting [...]