The lower half of the  North Umpqua Trail  (NUT) used to be so beautiful. A jungle of lush vegetation thrived everywhere and deep shade kept...

Rough Rider Falls is like the hiking version of Moby Dick. Ever elusive, the cascade remains an obsessive quest for me and if I don't ev...

Back in 2004, I  first hiked along Fish Lake Creek to Fish Lake via the Fish Lake Trail . It had been two years after the Tiller Complex Fir...

I was cruising through the Internet the other evening and came across a boastful blurb stating the Siskiyou Mountain Club had cleared the Up...

Because Facebook knows everything about me, on my feed I received a blurb about a coastal birding club (it may have been the Audubon Society...