[pct-l] How Strider Gets His Kicks These Days!

[bighummel at aol.com]

Yep, I'm out in the field in central California again.  The weather is cool, breezy and the hills, oaks, flora and fauna of this area continues to inspire me.  Yesterday;

 . . . walking down a steeply eroded, oak and manzanita lined, canyon in overcast skies . . . large shadows sweep my path every few minutes as the raptors (turkey vultures and red tailed hawks) follow me, apparently thinking I move too slow to be in good health and maybe, just maybe, I'll stop, fall down and die and they can move in for the easy pickings!

 . . . a roadrunner, a coyote and a 6 point buck at a water hole on this mostly dry hill.  The road runner more interested in the bugs in the grass than me.  The coyote and the buck scatter at my aproach.  

. . . a massive old oak tree draped in light green Spanish moss flowing in the breeze and looking like something out of a halloween story.  

Ah, to be a geologist and to get paid to be outside!!!!  Life is good.

Greg "Strider" Hummel


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