Mountain Campgrounds Opened!
All in one weekend, all the mountain state parks campgrounds opened back up. All campgrounds at Palomar Mountain State Park, and previously closed, Green Valley Campground, at Cuyamaca Rancho State...
View ArticleWhat is THAT? Spring Birding and Wildflower Viewing.
Spring, to me, is the most interesting time of year. Obviously flowers are in bloom, and San Diego County’s variety of terrain and ecological zones provides an amazing number of plant species to...
View ArticleRattlesnakes, again.
I wasn’t going to write about this again this year, my first rattlesnake entry is by far the most read, and most Googled blog entry on the site. I figured I had it covered. That article occasionally...
View ArticleSDNHM Canyoneers Volunteer Training
I’ve brought up some of the local opportunities to volunteer in the past, and have had a little luck with readers finding a place to volunteer. Coming up in September, a real solid, educational, and...
View ArticleState Parks Scandal
News broke yesterday that California State Parks has a “secret” fund amounting to over 50 million dollars. This when 70 parks had been threatened with closure in order to save twenty-two million...
View ArticleWhat is THAT? Cooper’s Hawk
San Diego County is in a long-standing, see-saw battle with Los Angeles County for the most bird species spotted in the United States. We have so many different habitats, and happen to be in a great...
View ArticleBeen distracted, but not going away.
I’m sitting here listening to Phil Spector’s amazing Christmas album, accented by our first good rain in a while, and realizing I haven’t been out on a good hike in quite a while. A good, proper,...
View ArticleRamona Grasslands 2/28/13
This morning in an effort to fulfill an admittedly arbitrary birding goal – 28 new life-list birds in the month of February – I drove up to the Ramona Grasslands Preserve in hopes of seeing a few...
View ArticleI have arrived at a conclusion.
I’ve been wrestling back and forth about this for some time, and I’ve come to the conclusion that San Diego Hiker has run its course. Obviously, the entries have been few and far between for a while,...
View ArticleMother of Miguel, ca. 1985
This one’s been in the hopper for quite a while. Though I’d better get it out there while I still could. When I was in high school my friend, Brad, and I were starting to get the itch to get outdoors....
View ArticleUpdate on the End
Shawn Butler of Social Positive has offered to archive the contents of San Diego Hiker on that site. Looks good so far, so the plan is still for this site to go offline sometime after December 18,...
View ArticleDiscordant Tips For decorating the rooms of your apartment
If you are looking for the discordant tips to decorate the rooms in your new Apartments in Frisco then the following material can assist you well. Goals: Obviously, you don’t essentially desire your...
View ArticleHow to adorn your rooms with the Wall Clocks
All it requires is a slight imagination and creativeness to let a functional thing, just like a wall clock, to develop the main focus in any room of your Apartments in Frisco, a thing that can create a...
View ArticleRoom Decoration by Using a Wall Clock
A wall clock does not have to be sequestered all the time. It can impeccably combine with the artwork, provided that you can attain the stability it demands. For instance, this wall clock in the middle...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Guests Feel Good
Oh, what a pleasure it is for your apartment to have the fashionable space for some of your beloved guests! As a host, it will be usual to furnish this exceptional place with the top of services to...
View Article