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It’s a cloudy, gray morning in Hermosa Beach. Surfers stare out toward the pale, sparkling horizon. Pearly clouds gather over the ocean in the distance, a view that evokes the ...
Tag: Outdoors
Admired climber dies in fall from Yosemite’s El Capitan during apparent live-stream
A popular and promising young mountaineer fell to his death on Yosemite’s El Capitan on Wednesday, a tragedy that was reportedly live-streamed on social media. Balin Miller, 23, from Anchorage ...
Mt. Whitney hikers love this Chinese restaurant pitstop that looks like a merry-go-round
Nathaniel Whitfield’s friend from the climbing gym in Los Angeles recommended checking out the “Merry Go Round” the next time he was in the quaint mountain community of Lone Pine. ...
Searchers fail to find long-missing climber among Sierra’s most rugged peaks
Rescuers in the rugged Eastern Sierra are searching for a Seattle man who has been missing since early September — and possibly longer — after climbing among some of California’s ...
Yellowstone hiker survives bloody encounter with a bear, possibly a grizzly
A hiker who was attacked by a bear — probably a grizzly — in Yellowstone National Park this week has been released from the hospital. The 29-year old man had ...
A seemingly cursed Big Sur hiking trail finally reopens. But for how long?
Even in picturesque California, few landscapes are as stunning – or as fragile – as Big Sur. The constant storms and seismic activity that forged its dramatic cliffs and canyons ...
Jurassic Park in L.A.? Robot dinosaurs will soon invade this botanic garden
The dinosaurs are coming this holiday season. The South Coast Botanic Garden in the Palos Verdes Peninsula will host “Dinosaurs Around the World,” bringing 13 lifelike animatronic figures to the ...
‘All of a sudden, kaboom!’ Why lightning is so terrifying on California’s highest peaks
Megan Eskew did everything right before she climbed Mt. Whitney last month. She got in top physical shape, carefully checked the weather and, noticing a chance of thunderstorms, heeded expert ...
Boy Scout troop rescues 78-year-old lost in the Sierra without food, water, shelter
At first, Charlie Hey, 12, didn’t think much of it when his Boy Scout troop passed an elderly man standing at the edge of a trail deep in the Emigrant ...
Reeling from Trump cuts, staffers unionize at Yosemite, Sequoia national parks
For two years, labor organizers tried to unionize employees at a trio of celebrated California national parks, but they couldn’t reach critical mass. Then came mass firings of National Park ...
