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What happens when filmmakers go on a nearly month-long hiking trip and meet up with musicians, painters and others along the way? So far it seems like a pretty great documentary.
A haboob moving through Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park | Photo: Naomi McGraw/National Park Service
A particularly intense dust storm descended upon Death Valley National Park Monday afternoon.
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Damage from a summer storm left the campground badly damaged, but all that rain has beget an early bloom of wildflowers.
Monarchs cluster on trees at Ellwood Main Monarch Grove in mid-December 2011 | Photo: Zach Behrens/KCET
Each year hundreds of thousands of monarch butterflies flock to several small groves up and down the state's beachside communities. In turn, locals and tourists come out in droves to witness this wintering spectacle.
A ranger stands in a grove of knocked-down trees near Rainbow Falls after the November 30, 2011 wind storm | Photo: Courtesy Inyo National Forest
"The real danger is that a lot of trees haven't completely come down. They are hanging, still buckling," said Nancy Upham of the Inyo National Forest. "More wind will push the trees over eventually."
If you still haven't been to Yosemite National Park, might this be your tipping point?
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A perusal of ski resort Facebook pages up and down the state are showing some common ground: pure excitement and an adulation for the weather gods.
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With winter storms heading toward Yosemite National Park, its epic back entrance, the Tioga Pass, will close Tuesday evening.
Their Santa Barbara map | Photo courtesy Stacey Wright
By New Year's Eve, Stacey Wright and Peter Hartmann will have completed a goal that most have never done: walk every street in Santa Barbara, a total of 256 miles.
Photo courtesy Santa Catalina Island Company
Here's an opportunity to zip through darkness at speeds up to 45 mph.
A worthy reason to wake up early this Saturday morning, December 10th.
Wind damage in Pasadena
Wind damage and high fire danger prompted its closure on Thursday.
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