Here’s a story that ran almost two weeks ago in the Ojai Valley News, but remains relevant, says me. A team of scientists from Columbia University presenting climate research last week estimated that the El Niño warming event currently building in the Pacific Ocean will bring above-average rainfall to Southern California but later in theContinue reading “El Niño to come late to SoCal, experts say”
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PCT section C: I-10 to Big Bear
Haven’t had a chance to discuss or portray my experience in the San Gorgonio Wilderness just (amazingly) about three weeks ago now. Was one of the harshest and ugliest and yes, most beautiful stretches of the trail in SoCal. Blazingly hot on a Tuesday in the desert (80+ degrees). Cold and snowy three days laterContinue reading “PCT section C: I-10 to Big Bear”
Ken Burns on Yosemite
A couple of years ago Ken Burns gave a talk in San Gabriel about one of his favorite subjects, Yosemite, and said I thought many wise things, most especially: “This couldn’t have happened any place else. It is the Declaration of Independence applied to the landscape; the full expression of the democratic experience,” Burns said.Continue reading “Ken Burns on Yosemite”
desert sunsets are the best (well, sometimes)
From the U.S. Department of the Interior, via sharetheexperience, via Instagram:
Solimar fire near Ventura: oilco closes access
On Christmas night in the hills north of Ventura a fire broke out and burned about 1200 acres, closing the 101 freeway below for much of the day. Fortunately none of the approximately 600 firefighters putting down the blaze were hurt. A great deal of concern remains about slide dangers this winter and spring, given thatContinue reading “Solimar fire near Ventura: oilco closes access”
Bound for Glory: Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler died yesterday, cinematographer for countless great movies, including the under-appreciated Bound for Glory, not to mention other lefty faves including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, as well as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, to me arguably his best work, although Wexler went uncredited. Roger Ebert appreciatedContinue reading “Bound for Glory: Haskell Wexler”
PCT haiku from section C
semi-circle of pine bark half-mooned on the trail waiting to be crunched
Climate demonstrations: 2005 and 2015
Ten years ago world leaders and world powers gathered in Montreal in ostensible hopes of hammering out an agreement to reduce emissions and reduce the harms of global warming. Little or nothing came out of the meetings, in part because of the adamant refusal to deal with the issue on the part of the Bush/Cheney administration. That same administrationContinue reading “Climate demonstrations: 2005 and 2015”
If climate talks fail, blame GOP: Krugman
If they fail, Paul Krugman says, we will know who to blame: the GOP. Future historians — if there are any future historians — will almost surely say that the most important thing happening in the world during December 2015 was the climate talks in Paris. True, nothing agreed to in Paris will be enough,Continue reading “If climate talks fail, blame GOP: Krugman”
The Lost Brother — Latterly strikes again
To encourage interest and subscription, Latterly magazine, an on-line journal of stories from around the world, run by the wizardly editor Ben Wolford, released as a “single” a marvelously rich and well-written, well-edited, and well-composed story about life north of the Arctic Circle, on an island off the coast of Iceland. It’s called The LostContinue reading “The Lost Brother — Latterly strikes again”
Kit Stolz 