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Veteran’s Day at Mt. Carmel & Pine Creek
November 13, 2012
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Big Sur, On Foot, Plants, Santa Lucias | Tagged: black oak, Bottcher's Gap, Canyon Oak, Devil's Peak, Madrone, Mt. Carmel, Pico Blanco, Pine Creek, Ponciano Ridge, Ponderosa Pine, Skinner Ridge, Ventana Wilderness | 
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Story Time: First Trip to The Window
November 3, 2012
As viewed from the Coast Ridge: The South Face of the Double Cone, with Kandlbinder Peak (AKA Pk. 4653) on the left, and a bit of The Window visible as a notch to the right of Kandlbinder
It was fall, 1974. I’d just turned 15 and, while I’d seen a lot of the Santa Lucia backcountry, I’d never been to The Window. Read the rest of this entry »
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Death on the Little Sur
April 12, 2012
North Fork Little Sur
Among many wild and beautiful streams in the Santa Lucia Mountains, the North Fork of the Little Sur River stands out as one of the wildest and most beautiful. Rising on the north face of the Double Cone, it drains a deep, nearly trail-less, basin heavily forested with redwood and, unusually for the Santa Lucia, Douglas Fir; then squeezes through the narrow gap between Pico Blanco and Bixby Mountain to reach the coast. Read the rest of this entry »
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