Super Bloom civility — this dazzling event attracts huge crowds and big trouble for fragile flowers.  Days are growing noticeably longer with Spring’s impending arrival. Flowers have begun to bloom, and in California, the timing of the winter rains set off massive blooms of poppies and other blossoms. Seeing these blooms from a satellite image
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My first camping trip was with my family alongside the road leading into Grand Canyon National Park nearly 50 years ago. Without a tent, proper sleeping bags, padding or even a stove, we lacked many of the amenities common to our more recent camping outings. A Styrofoam cooler was purchased specifically for this trip, and
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Measure your outdoor adventures by hours per mile. Spending time on our trails has always been a needed outlet — even when the specter of a pandemic was not looming over our everyday activities. But as people seek a way to get away from it all, bigger crowds have appeared in our California open spaces,
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Hiking SoCal’s fire zone to experience environmental recovery. During an unseasonably hot and windy December in 2018, the sweeping Woolsey Fire burned fast as it roared from one side of Southern California’s Santa Monica Mountains to the other. More than 1,643 structures fell to the flames and almost 100,000 acres of land lay scorched, leaving
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