Always empty your boots before putting them on! Waking up in the morning and looking for a toilet can wait a few seconds longer! :) :) :)

That is a volcanic plug, specifically geologists call that a volcanic neck. The web site is mistaken, though the majority geology there is sedimentary rock, it has volcanic plugs which is what that geologic formation is, it is not a mystery as the web site suggests. Mystery to the web site creator?

Remember when we were able to get our vehicles up South Mount Hawkins Road must have been 20 years ago. None of us thought to bring flashlights, and reading novels by the tiny small fire we made for that small coffee pot gave you a headache that you moaned about for hours in to the night.

> Gale Dotton wakes from unconsciousness
> beside a dead body"

@fredhikes.bsky.social how many times has that happened to you while out in the world working for @glonvec.bsky.social ? No joke, it happens. :) :) :)

Brendy, the word "unconsciousness" is spelled incorrectly on your Amazon page.

Ryan Dacey? He is epic out there doing adventures on his bicycle, doing long distance and spending months away from other humans. He is disgusted with Facebook, I see, but thousands of us watch his adventures, I hope that he doesn't stop Facebook. We need to let him know that we count on his posts.

That fire break needs to have a dozer come and scrape, they isolated sections of the forest by doing ladder fuel removal, it looks like, and isolated canopies.

When we handle human waste or dead animals, we handle them with consideration of the biological hazard, we do take precautions and some of us get annual training

"Pick up your poop." That is a good sentiment, we find human waste along hiking trails in the ANF often.

This is so, so wonderful, and thank you so much for doing this. I'm always stunned by the work that our Southern California fire fighters are capable of, the hard work to train to qualify, keep certifications, and do the job is truly stunning, and our fire fighters do it very good.

Fred used to show up with Earth First! patches on his back pack which gave the @forestservice.bsky.social employees pause for a few minutes. 🙂But Forest Service people have read Edward Abbey's works also, they "bleed green" as much as any of us who enjoy #hiking trails -- and working to save forests

All of our volunteers are getting older and few younger people are taking their place. But also Fred, the water rescue work that you and the Glonvec rapid response people did was not wasted effort, you saved lives, you saved entire ecosystems, all of that good work remains despite what's happening.