Ask the Lizard – he knows – summer sun no more

Tales from Around the Campfire~ A tree fell in the woods AND… I HEARD IT! Crack,crack,CRACK, POP, pop-pop-pop thawump! It was dusk. I was watching the last of the day fade away. The air was very still with only the slightest hint of night drawing near. I was camped in the larger end of a … More A tree fell in the woods AND…

  Just back from a recent Portland trip to see my sweet family. Portland is a “wild” city; beautiful haphazard landscapes pour onto the sidewalks, flower stalks from faded blooms are left to reveal their own unique prettiness, plums have baked to prunes on the sidewalks, squirrels scold and scurry and the towering trees form … More Man vs. the Wild

As our little rock tracks around the sun the page of the calendar has been turned and we’ve stepped in to August. I get a bit anxious when this happens, it feels like summer is nearly over. The truth is there are 50 days until the Autumnal Equinox, put another way, a month and a … More I wandered into the woods and they took me for exactly who I am and it was real.

I spent a few days camping and exploring in the “The Land of the Grasshopper Song” while reading this spectacular true -tale by Mary Arnold & Mabel Reed. The book is their journal account of coming to the Klamath & Salmon Rivers country to become Govt. Field Matrons in 1908. Swimming the creeks, exploring the … More This is Quiet, Wild, Magical country, even Mary&Mabel say so.

With wildfire being so prolific these past few summers I decided to create a Wild Fire while Camping Decision Flow Chart. Let me know what you think.

Reflection ~ as we roll into August ~  of camping since April

Yesterday I went Eye Rock to see what I could see….  Smoke in every direction!  These are the pictures I took from on top of this little rock promontory; looking North, South, West and East. The heavy smoke in the North blanketing the Klamath & Salmon Rivers country is coming from fires in Southern Oregon. … More Smoke in every direction

Although the devastating Carr fire in Shasta County is receiving all the press (rightly so) there are two other wildfires effecting camping in the Klamaths, mainly the smoke. Hand lines, dozer lines, food lines, phone lines, hose lays, burn outs, spike outs, look outs, recon, crown fires, evacuation, structure protection, resource destruction, in the black…Wildfire! … More WILDFIRE