It’s been cold this week, but now there’s water coming from the sky. So, yeah, snow. There are reports of flakes falling in Fortuna, and it’s sticking at highway summits and other high elevations around the county. After tonight’s coastal freezing rain, temperatures are expected to drop into the 20s over the weekend. Keep updated […]
Outdoors
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Stone Lagoon Revival
There used to be a sweet little campground at Stone Lagoon that you could boat to — the only one of its kind in Humboldt County, with six hideaway boat-in campsites across the water from the highway. Alas, in March 2011, the cash-strapped state park system closed it. Now a private tour operator, Kayak Zak’s, […]
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Not Every Park Is Shut!
Dearest citizens of the U.S. of A., Yes, your national park system units are shut down for as long as your national government is in powerdown mode. Rage against the closures if you must; we’ve heard, back-channel, that some people want to storm Samoa Beach — the portion operated by the Bureau of Land Management […]
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Firefighters Shift to ‘Direct Attack’ on Corral Complex
Nearly a thousand firefighters this week are going on the offensive in their battle against the Corral Complex wildfires burning in the Six Rivers National Forest, just east of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. After two weeks of road-clearing, bulldozing and other “indirect” efforts at containment — and with milder weather forecast through Friday — […]
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A Magical Elk Moment on the Beach
This was the sight we woke up to a couple of mornings ago, off the beaten track in Mendocino County: My video shows the five-strong bachelor group of Roosevelt elk at dawn last Thursday on Usal Beach, in the Sinkyone Wilderness, south of Shelter Cove. In a couple of months, they’ll be putting their attack […]
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Scary Snake Story – UPDATED with a photo
Last Saturday afternoon, up at her uncle’s place in Kneeland, 8-year-old Marley Bones (pronounced “Bo-NEZ”) was engaged in a favorite pastime — trying to catch small wriggling wildlife — when something caught her. It was brief — a quick, sharp fang-jab on the knuckle of her right pointing finger. “Marley’s just an adventurer,” said her […]