inglorious wanderer

It's been years since I first summitted Stanley Peak. It was sometime in August 2012 when I joined a hiking group raising funds for children with cancer. I started hiking the year before. The group started at the Daley Ranch main gate at La Honda Drive. I was just following the group giving occasional answers to anyone who asked me basic questions: What's your name? Where are you from? I have forgotten about the meadow nor the oak trees. But there was a ranch house. I don't remember seeing the lake or water reservoir. Long before the Robert Daley claimed 1,600 acres of the area for his ranch, the Kumeyaays used the land for hunting wild game and for harvesting wild tree acorn. Wild tree acorn nuts  gathered from oak trees were pounded into acorn flour, according to historians. As the highest elevation at the in Daley's ranch    

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is one of the five NRAs located near a major population center that combine the preservation of significant historic artifacts and the use natural areas like open space preserves in locations that can provide  Santa Monica skyline  Best time of the year  The western town The church  the church into the wild west and the church

The eastern portion of the  Anacapa Island is twelve miles away from the coasts of Oxnard, CA accross Santa Barbara Channel.  Along with Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa , San Miguel and Santa Barbara, Anacapa Island is among the five of the eight islands under the jurisdiction of the Channel Islands National Park system. The island features a lighthouse that was initially unmanned using acetylene beacon placed atop a fifty foot tall metal tower. On December 2, 1853, the captain of a steamer crashed into rocks off the middle part of the island confusing the island for an optical illusion caused by the refraction of light from the sky. East Anacapa Island, to this day, features the light beacon initially built by the Coast Guard in 1912 and a light station built in 1932. The sinking of a steamer however did not spare the Chumash from being colonized and displaced. The Chumash,  who were the first inhabitants of the island  referred to their home as ...