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Vic - about 1/3 of my town was burned in a fire on November 17, 2020 when a power line snapped 300 yards north of my house with a wind blowing 80 - 125 mph from the southwest. One person died. We still think about what that number would have been if the fire started in the middle of the night...

I really, really want the wind to stop. It has been blowing for more than 24 hours now. I don't sleep much when the wind is howling and if I do I have nightmares about fire. The lines were de-energized for a couple of hours this morning but then they turned them back on (right after I had...

I have yet to come up with an appropriate consequence for this kind of abuse but I am sure it would not be fit to print on this site. "Tagging" seemed to explode in this region in 2020 and it is, as far as I have experienced, impossible to get a public agency to clean anything up. In one...

Ha - I've seen just about everything else. But now I am thinking about the pre-fab toilets that are used in campgrounds. I've seen them going down the highway on a flatbed, wrapped in plastic printed with "Building Better Places For People To Go".

I've mentioned to a couple of complainers and finger pointers that this is capitalism working exactly as it was intended and if we want the price to drop we need to cut back on our purchasing. I don't drive much. I am much more concerned about people who HAVE to drive - especially to a low...

This is my silver lining and I believe it is happening - at least from what I can see I can see. The lack of traffic is lovely.

I still think of the entitled and deliberately illiterate people I encountered in 2020. They tried to convince me that their dispersed campfire was legal because they had a permit and one of those portable fire rings. They had no shovel or water. And then I remember hiking out through a...

Ya know - I have to divulge that when I saw the topic "Porta Potties" the image in my mind was one of those blue things that you can stand in. I had to see what this was about.

Oh good lord! I would seriously do that (except turn down a beer - unless it was light)

Education is necessary. At times I think there should be some kind of licensing. And then I think about the way some people drive and I realize that enforcement is the key*. And then I remember that I rarely meet a ranger out there but maybe it is the places I go. I was backpacking for five days...

Bags and buckets for me. I spent a good deal of time on a sailboat. My dad had me empty the cassette toilet one time. I never complained about peeing over the side of the boat after that.

In my opinion there are way too many wilderness users who don't understand the intent of the Wilderness or just don't care. I mean - the toilet paper, the garbage left in fire rings, packing in generators and stereo systems (Dingleberry Lake, John Muir Wilderness) chainsaws (Blackcap Basin...

It isn't "Summer" until I take the flannel sheets off the bed and start wearing shorts. No fruit this year. the late freeze was absolutely brutal. All of the trees, including the large maples around the house, lost a couple of inches of new growth.

That is often a worry of mine even with my row covers. Do you use the pipe bender from Johnny's Seed? More and more of my garden is covered every year but we have to transport conduit (10') on the roof of the Subaru since the All Terrain doesn't have a slider window and even two years later I...

Many years ago I found one in my pants - still gives me the creeps.

I was hiking with some friends when their rescue dog (heeler mix I think) brought us a couple of cows "No, Hank! You have to put them back!". Another friend had a border collie who wore a circle in the carpet from "ghost herding". The dog would also wait outside the bathroom door to make sure...

I had a coyote come and plop down in the sand just outside the ring of firelight one night when I was playing the guitar. I have not yet entertained a fox.

Oh my! Two masters of their craft. For me Jerry Douglas is synonymous with dobro. And Mark is also a master of guitar. Watched him run circles 'round another guitar master - Steve Kaufman - at a festival one year. Prior to that set Mark had played an hour solo split between fiddle and guitar...

I have to stick to 14 or larger. My dog can't help.

that was me and sometimes as soon as you let go of the antenna it went bad so the rest of the family told me I had to stand there and hold it

I helped work on this project and was more than a little chagrinned to learn I frequently camped illegally and ignorantly on LADWP or Fish and Game land. I did get a note on my camper just before the 2020 dispersed camping from hell year which was the impetus for this information/website...

You are welcome. I had to put more trash bags in my camper after this episode. I forgot I had gloves in my first aid kit but the doggy bags did the job. Thank you for reminding me that I need to put more doggy bags in the truck!

A couple of weeks ago I cleaned up the most disgusting campsite I have ever seen. The woman had used the area in a circle around the campsite (a lot of t.p. with no feces = female) but feces too - none of it was buried. The man had used the creek. Several rocks were covered with feces and the...

I use a bidet that is MUCH better than the method described in this article. I know it as a microscope slide wash bottle - my sister called it a "hillbilly bidet". You need to remove the inner tube in order to use the bottle upside down. I started using it at home too when the hoarders bought up...

Prices went down a couple of weeks ago but then went back up again - except for Bridgeport and Lee Vining. I predict that they will never drop below $6.99 again (I think it was $7.99 for diesel)