Posts tagged “HIKING”
  • Local man declares hiking hiatus over
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 08 16 at 10:58:32 pm | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4ce

    Chilopsis

    It’s been in the triple digits every day since I dunno, the 1970s, and by triple digits I mean above 110 more often than not. And so, given my reluctance most days to die of heatstroke, it has been a very long time since I have wandered out the

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  • Violet-green swallows
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 28 at 4:44:46 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x9cd

    King of The Mountain

    Of all the side-blotched lizards I saw on my Sunday hike – and there were hundreds – this was the only fellow that didn’t run out of camera range. He flinched, as they all do, and he did the usual sets of pushups, but then for some reason he

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  • The birds and the bees
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 17 at 11:19:32 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x92c

    Echinocereus

    I was in Fern Canyon this afternoon, a short stretch of Wentworth Canyon that’s moist enough along one part of the south wall to support a few feet of Adiantum fern. The story is that the place was wetter once and the ferns covered the canyon

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  • Sceloporus orcutti
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 12 at 4:43:11 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x00c

    Palm Canyon

    Bad news kept us up far too late Friday night — nothing personal, just the same bad news everyone knows about — and so I got a much later start today than I would have liked. By the time I finally got myself caffeinated and out the door it was

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  • Podcast: Windy Day
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 07 at 8:41:12 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4Wc

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  • Amphispiza bilineata
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 07 at 12:35:56 am | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7Tc

    Because I shoot video with my iPhone, which has limited resolution and no creditable zoom, I suggest you hit “play” on this video and look at this photo at Wikipedia, which was taken not far away.

    If you’re stubborn and want to find the bird in

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  • Posting so that I can say I did
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 01 at 2:29:09 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4Mc

    It’s 1:23 in the A of M. I’ve worked until just now on a website redesign project for a (really wonderful) enviro group, and in about five hours I’m getting up to go for a hike. But the blog, she is cajoling me. And I miss it. The last couple of

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  • Pine City
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 28 at 1:32:47 am | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0Lc

    Earlier today. I hiked here a couple years ago with Larry Hogue and Florian. It hasn’t changed much. That’s good.