I’ve been popping in on this blog since it showed up last November, when its author landed in Los Angeles after many years in the the Adirondacks of Upstate New York. A guy who writes stuff like “For us Californians, we can sometimes take our sun, landscape and Jason Priestly’s sideburns for granted” is always worth a look.

He’s posted 10 hike write-ups to date — all with breezy writing, pix of the stuff you need to see and a few asides with gems such as Linus of “Peanuts” fame hollering “I love humanity – it’s people I can’t stand.”