Saturday, June 20 heralds the 55th anniversary of Neil Armstrong becoming the first person to set foot on the moon Black boy in Chicago playing in the street, not enough to wear, not near enough to eat. Don’t you know he saw it on a July afternoon, he saw a man named...
So, I was thumbing through a June 2004 edition of The Mountaineer, a bi-monthly magazine published by The Alpenhorn News, a predecessor to the Alpine Mountaineer, which you are reading right now, or else you wouldn’t know any of this good stuff. Well, as it turns out,...
Well, I hope we survive all the Fourth of July fireworks extravaganzas without burning down the mountain. Anyway, now it’s time to get on with the rest of summer. One of the best things about summer in sunny Southern California – no matter whether you reside at the...
It’s fun watching the squirrels run amok, up, down and around the trees this time of the year…Hey, it’s better than imitating a manhole cover on Crest Forest Drive. And it’s not uncommon to see them gathering acorn nuts but, it was so hot the...
I’d like to begin this week with a seasonal sort of rhyme that goes sort of like this: Spring has sprung and fall has fell. Now it’s summer and it’s hotter than…heck. Ha, ha, I fooled you. You probably thought I was going to say h-e-double hockey sticks. Well, there’s...
Congratulations to all the members of the graduating class of 2024. It was a lot of hard work, but you finally made it, so give yourselves a pat on the back. No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks, school’s out for the summer, out to fall, we...
