The remainder of my phone pictures from September 2023, showing the area of Spalding Marina and the view from Dow Butte. The informational sign shown above reads as follows: Eagle Lake sits at about 5,110 feet above sea level in beautiful northeastern California, about 16 miles north of Susanville in Lassen County. It is the second largest natural freshwater lake […]
I’ve already shared quite a few images from my exploration of the two abandoned houses perched above Manchester Beach in Mendocino County. It was actually the Big Guy who first drew my attention to these decaying structures, barely visible in the distance as we walked on the beach in November 2024, and I had been itching to return and get […]
Back in early September 2023 I spent a week with the Big Guy next to Eagle Lake, in Lassen County. We were 45 minutes away from Susanville, in an area called Spaulding that was basically a grid of dirt and gravel streets lined with cabins, modular homes, and a few mobile homes — nothing too fancy, but we fell in […]
Memories and details from visits to Moat Creek and Stornetta Public Lands, near Point Arena, in 2022.
Every recent memory is extra precious to me now after losing the Big Guy in late July. There were so many beautiful places he introduced me to — places I never would have learned to love if not for him. Here are just a few of the scenes from our most recent visits to Lake Berryessa in May of this […]
Between 2014 and 2016, the month of May meant spending a week with the Big Guy and his parents at Soda Bay in Lake County, in the shadow of Mt Konocti. Rather than drive around and explore as I tend to do nowadays, my outings were restricted to walking distance from the area where we were staying, which happened to […]
Some sights from my trip to the Delta with the Big Guy in the last week of June 2025.