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Channel Islands National Park - Santa Cruz Island (Day 3)

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Day 3 in the Channel Islands National Park.  Again, a beautiful morning to walk up to.  Lisa headed out on the solo dawn hike this morning, I stayed in camp and nursed a blister on my foot.  Those plastic sandals are not meant to be walked in for several miles <grin>.  [...]

Channel Islands National Park - Santa Cruz Island (Day 2)

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Day 2 in the Channel Islands National Park.  What a nice way to wake up, it’s daybreak, birds are chirping, the perfect temperature and the glow of a sunrise that hasn’t popped over the ridge yet.  All is quiet, not another camper is stirring, so I grab my camera and [...]

Channel Islands National Park - Santa Cruz Island (Day 1)

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Paige from the NorCal Hikers Yahoo Group organized a campout to Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the islands in the Channel Islands National Park.  Candace, Lisa and I left Sacramento Thursday night after work and headed down south to Ventura (near Los Angeles).  We caught some Z’s at [...]

Oroville North Table Mountain Waterfall Loop

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Lisa, Mary, Theresa, Jason, Paige and I headed to North Table Mountain in Oroville again to tackle the waterfall loop as described on Leon Turnbull’s Water Falls West webpage.  The highlight of the Waterfall Loop route is Phantom Falls.  There are no trails in this area, so it was a [...]