Entries by John Poimiroo

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Sacramento Fall Color Comparisons: iPhone or Nikon?

For a Monday morning live segment on Sacramento’s KCRA-TV3 about CaliforniaFallColor, I spent Saturday exploring Sacramento County. The color was patchy, though still beautiful with chartreuse sycamore and yellow and lime cottonwood throughout the County. Patchy fall color can be as lovely as full peak. Also, photographing fall color need not be about the grand […]

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California Fall Color Glows High Above US395

Color spotter Janek U wrote that he traveled to the Eastern Sierra from Orange County, yesterday, stopping twice along the way along US 395.  We receive many reports from Bishop Creek Canyon and points north, but were most interested on his report of what he saw south of Bishop, as few spotters have reported about […]

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Driving Tour of Plumas County

If you don’t check back to read comments, earlier this week Sharon wrote that she was planning a trip this weekend to Plumas County and asked what advice we might offer.  Here’s the touring guide to Plumas County that we recommended: Drive to Truckee on I-80, then north on CA-89/CA-70 to Quincy. There will be spots […]

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Hike of the Week: Gull Lake Trail

Located a few blocks north of June Lake Village (Hwy. 158) in Mono County, this lovely, scenic trail begins at Gull Lake Park (across from the June Lake Library) and loops around the shoreline of Gull Lake for an easy 2-mile jaunt. The trail meanders through glowing aspen groves at the west end of the […]

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Aerial Eastern Sierra

Keith Lake flies over the Eastern Sierra in these videos of Mammoth Lakes and Bishop Creek Canyon, posted last week. [embedplusvideo height=”450″ width=”600″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1tkZ1de” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/UiF3rjmhHSw?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=UiF3rjmhHSw&width=600&height=450&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2159″ /] [embedplusvideo height=”450″ width=”600″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1tkYuIt” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/rRLszfzPYCE?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=rRLszfzPYCE&width=600&height=450&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6474″ /]

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Fall Hikes With Your Dog

DogTrekker.com is devoted to dogs, their owners and finding companion-filled fun in the great outdoors and on the road. This week, editor Janet Fullwood described hikes to take in Mendocino, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Santa Barbara and Redding, several of which are along fall-colorful trails. Thanks DogTrekker for also giving a nod to CaliforniaFallColor for […]