Category: Out and About
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Winter Yosemite Trip
My cousin stopped in the states on her way from New Zealand back to Scotland. It’s her first time in the US and I took us to Yosemite. It had been a decade since I had been and I sometimes forget why it’s one of the biggest nature destinations in the world. It remains breathtaking,…
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Memorial Weekend Backpack in El Dorado
May 26th 2023 It’s difficult to describe and really comprehend the amount of water coming out of the Sierras right now. The heavy rains of winter and spring feel long ago as the hills around the Bay Area turn a dry gold. I didn’t observe any change in the level of the Sacramento river as…
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Aiming for Conservation – Hog Hunt in Williams
April 1st 2023 This past weekend I was taken hog hunting for the first time. I was very lucky to be taken by some friends on a private ranch west of Williams. The amount of rain this year has created abundant food for feral hogs but they still follow daily patterns of migrating into the…