Awesome cleanup project by the East Bay Trash Pandas. 18 tons of garbage pulled off Grizzly Peak above Berkeley oaklandside.org/2024/09/03/eas…

Sad story about a man vacationing on the Humboldt County coast becoming swallowed in a sand avalanche while digging on the beach sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

One of the first-ever freediving competitions in the US just happened yesterday on Lake Berryessa in Napa County, of all places. That's diving for depth -- hundreds of feet down -- on one breath. Here's how it went sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

AT&T has agreed to remove ~100,000 pounds of century-old lead-lined telecommunications cables from the bottom of Lake Tahoe sfchronicle.com/tahoe/article/…

“I’m happy I did it, but that was the suckiest day of my life.” That's the kind of thing you'll hear from a lot of hikers on Mt Whitney, but it doesn't have to be a full-on sufferfest sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Hikers on Mount Whitney are required to pack out their poop ... but enough of them aren't doing it that it's not hard to find ziplock bags of feces just layin around the trail sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Does California’s tallest mountain have a poop problem? By Greg Thomas sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

If you can't afford a single family home in SF maybe pivot to a 40-acre private property for sale in the middle of a national park in the High Sierra... sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

One of the Bay Area’s most popular old growth redwood parks is about to get bigger One of California's most popular old-growth redwood parks is about to get bigger sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Tahoe skiing news: Homewood Mountain Resort on the West Shore, a local favorite forever, just said they won't open or operate at all this coming winter sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Let’s go Mike Rogge 🏔️📖

“We are shocked and very, very sad that they announced that they would close the mountain." Tahoe locals react to Homewood ski area closing for the coming winter season sfchronicle.com/travel/article…

The other day my wife and I were hiking in the Yosemite backcountry and encountered a forest fire right in our path. Here’s how that went sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Business at Tahoe’s Homewood ski area has been bad for more than a decade but the resort hadn’t shut down for winter — until now. Backstory on a troubled resort in one of the world’s skiing capitals sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Inside Homewood's closure: "The status quo of catering to local skiers, selling lift tickets and serving burgers is failing in the era of multi-resort megapasses. Homewood is particularly challenged because of its remote location." By Greg Thomas sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Fun Yosemite story for the weekend. These dudes are up there right now! sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Coyotes in SF have become a real problem. More than 600 sightings in the city this year and a bunch of attacks sfchronicle.com/sf/article/coy…

A Bay Area rock climber is facing felony charges for allegedly raping or sexually assaulting at least 3 other climbers in Yosemite, Joshua Tree, SF and Pacifica sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…

Huge news for Lake Tahoe skiing: huge Palisades ski village just approved. 850 condos, 1,500 hotel rooms, 3,000 parking spaces. Could take 25 years to build. sfchronicle.com/tahoe/article/…

Group of frustrated Yosemite staffers just hung an upside down American flag from El Capitan, thousands of feet off the ground, visible to people on the valley floor. Here's why they're doing it: sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…