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The limestone monolith towered above Shasta Lake within the Trinity Alps National Forest. Naturally carved within its mighty limestone crags was one of the biggest cave systems in the U.S. We boarded a small boat and easily motored across to the other side of shimmering Shasta Lake. A solitary bald eagle roosted atop a gnarled […]

After bushwhacking and rambling across three mountain ranges and crossing two rivers between Nira Camp in the Los Padres National Forest and the Carrizo Plain National Monument, amazingly I didn’t find a single tick on me. It was December 2023, and fortunately, the same went for my five comrades as we spent seven days and […]

I chose a broad sandstone stage, dropped my camera pack, and kicked back on the gritty slab in the Sierra Madre Mountains of the Los Padres National Forest. It was the spring of 1997, and the sun was shining overhead with intermittent puffy clouds drifting north to south. My hands were behind my head and […]