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Remembering Alta Vista: An Historic Big Sur Homestead Lost in the Basin Complex Fire
Alta Vista in 2005 While we realize that nothing is forever and that acceptance of impermanence and change is the first step on the road to happiness and enlightenment, we still haven’t been able to s… more →
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Remembering Alta Vista: An Historic Big Sur Homestead Lost in the Basin Complex Fire
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xasauan wrote 5 days ago: Alta Vista in 2005 While we realize that nothing is forever and that acceptance of impermanence and … more →
Secret Stimulus: Federal Transparency Policy Fails to Crack Forest Service Code of Omerta
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xasauan wrote 1 month ago: Ventana Wilderness trails could use some work. How many of the 203 million stimulus dollars the Fore … more →
Bicycle Ride: Carmel to Morro Bay
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xasauan wrote 1 month ago: We use our point & shoot camera to take a fuzzy video of an October 10, 2009 bike ride from Carm … more →
Rivers Rise as Deluge gets Rainy Season Underway
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xasauan wrote 1 month ago: Well, the remnants of Typhoon Melor proved to be every bit as wet as advertised. As it so often does … more →
Time to Throw a Tarp over the Woodpile
xasauan wrote 1 month ago: And weight it down with a few extra rocks, while you’re at it. Not only are they still calling … more →
Stormy Tuesday?
xasauan wrote 1 month ago: The calm before the storm? Following last year’s fires, Big Sur sweated through the rainy seas … more →
July in Big Sur
xasauan wrote 4 months ago: Hot summer day … In the shade of the oak … Dudleya cymosa … Lupine & Lotus (Lu … more →
Basin Complex Fire Revisited: Part 1 (6/21/08 - 6/26/08)
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xasauan wrote 5 months ago: Saturday, June 21, 2008; one year ago today A warm, sunny and unusually humid day. 12:45pm: A dark b … more →
Today on the Pine Ridge Trail
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xasauan wrote 6 months ago: Clustered Broomrape (Orobanche fasciculata) What more can we say? … more →
Into the Chalk Fire Burn: Vicente Flat Trail
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xasauan wrote 6 months ago: The Vicente Flat Trail is in excellent condition as it leaves Highway 1 and begins its initial 1600 … more →
Spring at The Indians
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xasauan wrote 6 months ago: Fields of Sky Lupine (Lupinus nanus) A lazy afternoon beside the stream A Stinging Lupine (Lupinus h … more →
Ventana Wilderness Opening Day: Bottcher's Gap to Little Pines
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xasauan wrote 7 months ago: With the exception of an overgrown patch or two, like this one, the Ventana Double Cone Trail is in … more →
Ventana Wilderness to Reopen May 1
xasauan wrote 7 months ago: Time to head back to the woods! The Forest Service is silent, of course, but reliable sources report … more →
A Visit to La Cueva Pintada
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xasauan wrote 7 months ago: The army hasn’t allowed the public to visit La Cueva Pintada (on Fort Hunter Liggett) in somet … more →
Forest Service Website Hacked
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xasauan wrote 7 months ago: We’ve heard from some people wondering why our links to the Los Padres National Forest Current … more →
9 Months After the Fire - Photos Taken When the Ground was Hot Compared to Photos Taken Yesterday
xasauan wrote 8 months ago: Stinging Lupine (Lupinus hirsutissimus) becomes the first plant to recolonize a severely burned slop … more →
Broad Coalition Backs Return to Early Silurian Conditions Along Big Sur Coast
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xasauan wrote 8 months ago: Death Valley’s “Early Silurian” landscape attracts plenty of tourists The Big Sur Property Owners As … more →
Forest Service Once Again Mistakes Itself for CIA
xasauan wrote 8 months ago: Ventana Wilderness, Los Padres National Forest The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better kn … more →
Palo Corona Regional Park
xasauan wrote 8 months ago: View of Carmel River mouth from “Inspiration Point” When a coalition of state and privat … more →
