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The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Pikas... on Mono Pass!

The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Pikas… on Mono Pass!

Aug 27, ’10 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Pikas are distant cousin of Basil and all bunnies, and occasionally are referred to the real life Pokemon Pikachu. No joke, I read it on the internet ;) And pikas are liable to become an (Word of the day!) endemic species with climate change, due to their highly specific  mountain sub-alpine scree environments and mortal distaste for warm environments. These cute little threatened critters can be found throughout the park,…

Where we finally go to San Francisco, but not Alcatraz

Where we finally go to San Francisco, but not Alcatraz

Aug 21, ’10 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Which you would think was a good thing because people tried to get out of Alcatraz all the freaking time and died terribly. But seeing as Curtis’ two Estonian friends, Margus and Arvo, came to the City for the very purpose of seeing Alcatraz it was a minor set back. Instead we wandered around aimlessly until we accidentally walked up to Coit Tower, wandered down to some quaint oldschool part…

Enjoying the Tufa

Obama said we needed a vacation- So we went to Mono Lake!

Aug 14, ’10 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Actually Curtis and I had been planing to go to Mono Lake ever since I pleaded with him to understand that the fragile saline ecosystem appealed to my inner environmental engineer. In case if you have not heard the back story, or slept through environmental engineering fundamentals, Mono lake is a saline lake in the great basin that is fed by various freshwater streams. The city of LA quite some…

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