#san diego backcountry

[desertmountainapothecary]

Get ready for more desert adventures for the mind body and spirit with new videos coming soon on YouTube: Desert Mountain Apothecary!

After a wet winter, the San Diego Backcountry Desert and Mountains are looking lush and green.

Just like me, my videos are wholesome, natural, and pure, and my new ones coming up soon are sure to put a country mile wide smile on your face.

Please enjoy my channel: Desert Mountain Apothecary, I’m Will Brennan and I love you for watching.

All the best,

Will

William Z. Brennan, founder of Desert Mountain Apothecary & author of upcoming e-book Natural Lifestyle Optimization

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About Desert Mountain Apothecary: The original desert apothecary for mind, body & spirit: desert roots & desert mountain botanicals: Desert Mountain Apothecary by William Z. Brennan.  Supremely natural natural skincare & botanical fragrance hand made with love from the purest natural source plant-based ingredients.  

About William Z. Brennan: William Z. Brennan is a natural lifestyle expert, founder of Desert Mountain Apothecary & author of upcoming e-book Natural Lifestyle Optimization.  Originally from New York, and with a background in fragrance, skincare, fashion design & bespoke mens tailoring, he is now based in the Southern California Desert.

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backcountry San Diego County, 2017

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Wind project in San Diego’s backcountry runs into turbulence [sandiegouniontribune.com] — Residents oppose construction of 60 wind turbines that would stand hundreds of feet high.

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Sasha Corine Ruster @ruster.music (she/they) is a nonbinary singer/songwriter and music producer from the San Diego backcountry. Her music focuses on healing and having hope in times of adversity. As a busker, the joy and visibility they bring in song is their premiere passion.

Sasha will be performing at CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION this Friday, June 30th, at the Til-Two Club @tiltwoclub ~ doors at 7, suggested donation of $5 benefits the ACLU Drag Defense Fund @aclu_nationwide

CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION is a queer joy variety show and is the Novice Project of Judith Priest @sr.judith.priest

#busker #music #tiltwoclub #queertalent #queervarietyshow #queerjoy #sandiego #lgbtqevents #judithpriest #noviceproject #sistersofperpetualindulgence

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Artist Post #5 - Louise Russell

This image is called Untitled 7 by Louise Russell’s from her series Points of View where she photographed every square inch of her family’s land in in the high desert backcountry of San Diego. These images offer a unique perspective on the land, as they capture the emotions and feelings that are evoked by it. I think this series of work showcases her deep connection to her family’s land and serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving and cherishing the natural world around us. Her photographs highlight the importance of acknowledging and addressing these issues. The windows in her images frame the landscape and highlight the oak trees that are dying because of drought. Framing her images this way adds an additional layer and asks the viewer to reflect on these issues. The contrast between the bright landscapes and the dark, enclosed spaces of the window adds an emotional impact to the images.

[whitepolaris]

Wild Giants of Big Rock Canyon

This rugged canyon on the San Gabriel Mountains’ northern side is a sort of Bluff Creek South. The area is believed to be the home base of southern California Sasquatches who have terrified hikers and homeowners in the San Gabriels and Antelope Valley. 

These creatures have been rumored to exist in the southern California backcountry for many years. During Spanish colonial times, Indians told Spanish padres of the hairy giants who supposedly live near certain dry arroyos. In 1876, white hunters spotted an apelike beast roaming the mountains near Warner’s Ranch in San Diego County. 

But southern California’s real Sasquatch epidemic hit in mid-1960s. In 1966, newspaper reports told of a girl pawed by a seven-foot-tall, slime-covered beast in the Lytle Creek wash north of Fontana. A few weeks earlier two boys hiking in the wash had seen “an ape in a tree” there. And in Quartz Hill, on the west end of the Antelope Valley, two young men told L.A. County sheriff’s deputies that they had seen a dark, giant biped silhouetted against the sky on a hill. 

Such reports tantalized and perplexed Sasquatch hunters. They had concentrated their search for the creature in the rugged wilderness of the northwest. It seemed incredible, and more than a little disturbing, that the big ape could be lurking on the outskirts of Los Angeles. 

Hunters picked up the southern California Sasquatch trail in Big Rock Canyon in 1973a, year in which apelike creatures were spotted all over Antelope Valley. Frightened homeowners and frustrated lawmen were never able to capture any of the beasts, and believe that they hid out in the neighboring San Gabriel Mountains. Sasquatch expert Ken Coon hired a plane, flew over the mountains, saw forested, creek-fed Big Rock Canyon, and guessed that the wild mountain valley was probably the Sasquatches’ Los Angeles County lair. 

And sure enough, the beast turned up there. On April 22, 1973, three young men from the San Fernando Valley saw one near the Sycamore Flats campground. The three were riding in a pickup truck at about ten p.m. when an eleven-foot Sasquatch jumped out of the bushes and chased the truck for about twenty seconds, it’s long arms swinging in front of its chest. 

The boys reported the incident to the sheriff’s office in Lancaster and went straight back to Big Rock Canyon. There they located the spot where the big ape had appeared and were amazed to find hundreds of huge footprints along the road, some of which they later preserved in plaster of paris. These prints were especially odd in that they were three-toed. To date, all other Sasquatch tracks had been five-toed. 

Soon hunters were scouring Big Rock Canyon for the three-toed Sasquatches, and more sightings and track casts rolled in. Something left twenty-one-inch tracks with a hunter Margaret Bailey saw a “huge figure” in the moonlight at Sycamore Flats. Then, inevitably, reports tapered off. Once again, the hairy giants retreated from public view and headed back to whatever strange twilight world they inhabit. 

They were seen around Big Rock campground, at the top of the canyon, one more time each-in 1974, 1975, and 1976. William Roemermann, who had become Big Rock Canyon’s answer to Roger Patterson, made the last two sightings. Weird California was told that Sasquatch was last seen in the region at Devil’s Punchbowl County Park a few years ago, when two girls and their horses were scared senseless by an apelike monster. Since Devil’s Punchbowl is just west of Big Rock Canyon, it’s possible that the creatures are still dwelling in the area and might make a comeback before too long.

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[mercurygray]

5 of 10; sorry, all spots have been filled and I can't accept any more requests! For @easycompany123

Hi, my name is Kendall, she/her, medium length brunette hair. I’m a vodka aunt, literally and figuratively. My interest included cinematography, traveling, history (specifically ancient Rome, and Greece), and people watching. I feel I hold myself back because of people in my life that have previously held me back. I’m very loyal but I can come off as harsh. I’ve gotten into a few fist fights because of my loud mouth, but nothing that hurt me permanently. Family isn’t something important to me (at least as much as I wished it was). Sometimes I get scared of developing certain attributes from my parents. School is a big deal and I strive for academic achievement. Writing has always intrigued me, and I definitely want to be a script/ screen writer. In my spare time I hang out with friends or go somewhere by myself. Character’s my best friend relates me to are Alaska (Looking for Alaska), Camila (Secret History), Brad (Generation Kill). In the 40’s I would loved to work for the O.S.S. (I would like my ship to be a guy). <3

You're not the sentimental kind.

At basic there were plenty of girls sniffling into their pillows, being away from home for the first time, but that's not for you - you wanted an adventure and now you've got it, a Lady Marine sitting in San Diego wearing Montezuma Red and processing papers for all these boys coming through Pendleton. It's hard work, but there's change in it, people always coming and going. You can have a different date every weekend if you want, and no one expects anything more from you than a nice evening out.

One thing you'll say for living near the city - the nightlife is infinitely more fun than it was at home. Restaurants and dances and more movie theaters than you could visit in a month. Which is where you are tonight. The show was a western - not one of your favorites, but the boys seem to enjoy it. There are three of them, one eager beavers who asked your friend Penny out in the PX and told her he'd bring some friends if she did.

Turns out it's a damn small world and someone knew someone else's cousin and now the four of them are thick as thieves and you've been stuck with the third friend.

...well, not stuck. He's kind of cute, in a backcountry way, very yes ma'am, no ma'am, let me get the door, but quiet, too, like he's waiting to see what everyone else says. (Hard to get a word in edgewise around Penny, though.)

They've pretty well forgotten the two of you, ten steps ahead as usual, when he finally speaks. "You, ah, go to the movies much at home?"

"Not really," you admit. "Wasn't a whole lot of money at home for things like that, and no one ever wanted to go with me. Said it was a lot of nonsense, watching people do things they never did."

He gives a wry smile at that. "Take it you don't miss it much? Home, I mean."

You shrug. "People seem to hang a lot on that word, but there's not much to miss if it never really felt like home, is it?"

This seems to make sense to him, though he doesn't say so in so many words. "So what d'you think you'll do, when this is..."

Over? That's a thought. Plans change quick around here, and you don't make them as much as you used to. Reading casualty lists will do that to a girl. "I used to say I'd travel, see the world a little, but now I think I'd like to go to Hollywood, get into pictures. A screenwriter, you know? Be the person I want to be - tell stories people actually want to watch."

"You seem like you'd be good at that. Long as you had some one to keep you out of trouble."

""You calling me a troublemaker, Romus Burgin?""

He shrugs and smiles that quiet way of his, what you'd call bashful if you couldn't also see the sparkle in his eyes. "Takes one to know one."

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Read Afoot and Afield San Diego County 281 Spectacular Outings along the Coast  Foothills  Mountains  and Desert [ PDF ] Ebook

>Download Afoot and Afield: San Diego County: 281 Spectacular Outings along the Coast, Foothills, Mountains, and Desert Ebook

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Book Details:

Author : Jerry Schad Publisher : Wilderness Press ISBN : 0899978010 Publication Date : 2017-3-14 Language : Pages : 512

Book Synopsis:

Since 1986, Jerry Schad’s Afoot and Afield: San Diego County has been the premier trail guide for hikers, backpackers, and mountain bikers. It describes routes ranging from brief, family-friendly hikes to multiple-day overnight trips in remote regions of the backcountry, providing equal weight to the scenic and recreational value of each trip. Each route features at least one or more significant botanical, cultural, or geological highlight with detailed information about what makes each one significant. The book’s lengthy history as the preferred hiking guide for the region creates trust and recognition in its readers, while the variety within the book caters to a wide population of recreational enthusiasts.Current co-author Scott Turner has fully updated the book by re-hiking each of the routes contained within the book and adding (up to) 30 new routes to ensure that information for each trip is fully current.

[desertmountainapothecary]

Hike the Pacific Crest Trail at Barrel Springs trailhead in the San Diego Backcountry mountains!  It’s a beautiful, sunny, Southern California day on the trail, so let’s explore this breathtakingly beautiful,  high altitude section of the pct.  Located just north of the 100 mile trail marker, Barrel Springs trailhead is located in Ranchita, next to the Borrego Montezuma highway that runs from the historic Warner Springs Ranch down to the low desert oasis village of Borrego Springs.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA_dXxhzAVc

[lindseyappleseed]

Bring on desert livin’, calling Las Vegas home

San Diego has been home for almost five years, oh how I love the evenings spent in the ocean’s waves and the endless palm trees & perfect sunsets. But I’ve been in a rut, nothing that made me unhappy, just unrestful. Being in Mammoth Lakes for the summer brought into light the importance of being close to the places I love to be outside. There, I could walk out my backdoor and access the backcountry by foot or bike; rarely even touching my truck for the whole summer! That perspective of the mountain lifestyle made me realize that San Diego had me a bit trapped from all the things I cared most about. Each weekend I would rally hard, driving sometimes 7 hours one way, to reach the gorgeous places I loved to climb or bike or hike or fish. Now all I wanted  was to look out my window and be able to see adventures right in the foreground.

Las Vegas, although The Strip gives it a bad reputation, is a hidden gem for outdoor access right out it’s back door. I fell in love with the public lands just outside of Las Vegas several years ago on my first climbing trip for a friends Thanksgiving. Since then I’ve always felt such a sense of excitement and peace being here. When the opportunity came up for a recreation management job at the Spring Mountain National Recreation Area, I applied on a whim. I had just always felt drawn to Las Vegas; never did I think I would actually live here. The stars aligned when my best friend/climbing partner committed to moving here for school and I got offered the job at the same time; it seemed like a sign. I pulled the trigger on the job and within a month, we both were calling this place “home.”

Megan and I found a cozy apartment close to our work & school but more importantly, close to Red Rocks National Conversation Area and Spring Mountain National Recreation Area. We are only a short drive to world class climbing and endless miles of trails; I cannot get enough.

Change is so hard & uncomfortable in the moment but it’s what we all need to continually grow and thrive in life.

Leaving San Diego has been the hardest move yet for me in life, there’s many people and places I still love and miss daily; it pains me at times. But I feel this light and burst of new in Las Vegas that I haven’t felt in me in years; it keeps me going, knowing that I think I’m on the right path for me. 

[fotility]

This location was the perfect place to shoot this 1930 Ford Model A. Of course, the focus was the car, but the location definitely took us back to simpler times, don't you think? . . Car: 1930 Ford Model A Location: Back Country, San Diego Car Photographer: @fotility . . #classiccar #oldies #1930 #ford #modela #sandiego #backcountry #carphotographer #autophotographer #photographer #fotility #jerryroxasphotography #needpix

[rjzimmerman]

In California, groups are targeting a solar farm and an offshore wind power farm.

A proposed wind farm off the Santa Barbara coast. From the LA Times:

Along the wind-blasted shores of the Gaviota Coast, near the rocket gantries of Vandenberg Space Force Base, lazy breakers claw at the base of sandy bluffs and dunes, while farther out to sea, great white sharks cruise beneath churning whitecaps.

It’s a stunning and uniquely Californian vista, a place where pristine headlands overlook the submerged remains of sacred Chumash villages and launchpads fire the nation’s newest and most secret technology into orbit.

But in recent months, this stretch of the Santa Barbara County coastline has become a bitter collision point for several national and global imperatives — the reduction of planet-warming greenhouse gasses, the conservation of natural habitats and the atonement for injustices committed against Indigenous populations.

A plan by private corporations to float up to eight wind power generators less than three miles offshore has run headlong into efforts to designate a vast area of ocean off the Central Coast as a Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.

The turbine proposal has sparked outrage among conservationists and members of the Northern Chumash Tribe, who say the sanctuary is intended to preserve Chumash tribal history and protect the area’s rich biodiversity. Building a network of floating turbines that are tethered to the seafloor and connected to one another and the mainland with electric cables is an affront to preservation, they say.

A proposed solar farm, in Jacumba Hot Springs (San Diego County). From The San Diego Union-Tribune:

Preliminary work has begun on a major solar and battery storage project immediately adjacent to Jacumba Hot Springs that backers say will add a crucial piece to San Diego County’s efforts to develop local sources of clean energy but is opposed by many in the backcountry town of fewer than 600 residents.

Crews hired by BayWa r.e, an international renewable energy company, are just about done clearing a portion of the site after knocking down the remnants of an old dairy farm on the east side of the project. In the coming months — pending likely approval of permits from the county — the company plans to begin construction.

“I just want to reiterate that we feel that this is a well-sited project that’s in support of state and local goals,” said Geoff Fallon, executive vice president of development at BayWa r.e.

Although early work has started, local hotel owner Jeffrey Osborne hopes a lawsuit he and other Jacumba residents recently filed in San Diego Superior Court will upend the project.

“We’re a tourist town and they’re placing a gigantic industrial development that is six times the size of the town itself right next to it,” Osborne said. “What’s that going to do to our tourism?”

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on a 5-0 vote last August approved construction of the project — called the JVR Energy Park — during a packed, sometimes raucous hearing that attracted dozens of Jacumba residents who argued that if the project were to be built, it should take up a much smaller footprint.

A hearing on the merits of the lawsuit is scheduled for June 17.

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Herbstzeit Farben 🍁☀️🍁 · San Diego backcountry impressions. #hikingwithdogs #pct #adoptdontshop #optoutside #wanderlust #backcountry #adoptadog #hikingwithfriends #kitchencreekfalls #cibbetsflats #justpassingthrough #treadlightly #leavenotrace #backcountry #discoverCalifornia #greatoutdoors #hikesandiego #sandiegohiking #fbf (at Pacific Crest Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV8PmGVPaZX/?utm_medium=tumblr