• After dinner
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 16 at 9:50:49 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4Cc

    Yesterday evening the clouds piled up against the San Jacintos and Santa Rosas, edged slightly past the ridgelines heading eastward as the sun sunk behind them. Storm coming, they said.

    It was a promise fulfilled, though only to the letter. The

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  • Palms to Pines
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 14 at 11:00:45 pm | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4Ac

    We lit out for the countryside this afternoon, figuring that watching the sun set over the Valley from some vantage point up on the mountain was a good way to mark Valentine’s Day. Smart of us. There’s a road that climbs up San Jacinto from Palm

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  • Another hike
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 12 at 3:57:47 pm | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x2zc

    Well, that hike I took a week ago isn’t any easier in the other direction. I went up the Museum Trail this time. I clearly have some work to do in the cardio department. I stopped about eight times to when I got too anoxic and dizzy.

    Still a fun

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  • South Lykken
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 09 at 8:23:53 pm | 5 comments

    San Jacinto Shadow
    The shadow of Mount San Jacinto falls on Joshua Tree National Park. Photo taken from the north end of the South Lykken Trail.

    It’s been an interesting week or so, perspective-wise. First came the obligatory and even trite introspection that comes

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  • Sugar pine on Mt. San Jacinto
    By Chris Clarke on 2010 07 25 at 10:41:06 pm | 8 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x75

    Sugar pine on Mt. San Jacinto… (continues)

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