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The Best Lake in the Sierra Nevada
According to one extremely biased source
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Rafting the Grand Canyon
Watch 7 days in the Grand Canyon distilled into three minutes on YouTube.
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100 Years of Hollywood: The Sign that Defined a City
How a giant billboard became LA’s most iconic landmark.
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Who Was Owen Brown?
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A Brief History of Los Angeles Floods
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The Pasadena Parrots
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The Salton Sea: California's Accidental Desert Lake
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How to Finish the LA Tourist Race
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The Pasadena Parrots
Where did they come from and what are they doing here?
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LA Field Guide - Campfire Chat
A place for outdoor inspiration and conversation. Bring your own s'mores.
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The Salton Sea: California's Accidental Desert Lake
Years of agricultural runoff transformed the bustling 60s lakefront resort into an environmental disaster, and things only seem to be getting worse.
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Who Was Owen Brown?
A gravesite off of the El Prieto trail in Altadena provides a window into the inciting incidents preceding the US Civil War.
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The White City
Notes on motivating morning-me out of bed and into the mountains on the heels of LA's historic snowfall.
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Ride Radar: The 2023 MTBGB
From the bicycle brand that brought you the revolutionary 2022 Road Bike Marketed as a Gravel Bike comes the next breakthrough in bicycle trendiness...
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How to ID Eight Common SoCal Oak Trees
Or at least convince your non-botanist friends that you know what you're talking about on your next hike.
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