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Death Valley: It’s a Yellow World

March 8, 2013 by Ruth 4 Comments

Golden Canyon, Death Valley National Park, California

The colors covering the natural assets of Death Valley National Park are too many to count. There are pearly white salt beds. Olive green melting patches can be spotted in charcoal mountains. Traces of mauve, magenta and lilac lines run thru the faces of rock like veins. I can write pages and pages describing the [...]

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Point Buchon: A Trail Full of Hazards

August 27, 2012 by Ruth 1 Comment

After admiring the impressive bluffs in Montaña de Oro State Park, my curiosity took me to private lands possessing serious hazards such as sinkholes, snakes, electric fencing, poison oak and crumbling earth. **** Once we finished hiking one of the loops of the Bluff Trail, we drove the car to the end of Pecho Valley [...]

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How I Almost Lost the Opportunity to Visit One of California’s Best Parks

August 9, 2012 by Ruth 2 Comments

Have meteorologists given you misleading information? I think it has happened to all of us. My most recent “weather.com fiasco” started the day I arrived to Morro Bay. I checked the forecast before breakfast, the sun was supposed to be in full force by 10:00 a.m. At 10:00 a.m., it was still dark, cold and [...]