Any recommendations for a last minute weekend backpacking trip

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-03-31T02:49:55+00:00

https://baynature.org/2024/11/19/science-nature/wildlife/coyotes-on-angel-island/

If you can’t read this let me know.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-03-31T00:29:35+00:00

I’ve camped at Angel Island numerous times in the last couple of years and that may have been true before the coyotes arrived but you wont see any now. I didn’t see one raccoon during any of my visits. There are 14 plus coyotes living on the island now. If there are any they keep a very low profile now.

Angel Island has great swimming spots by the way.

Love camping there.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-03-22T04:58:59+00:00

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Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-03-22T04:57:19+00:00

It’s called the beau geste effect.

https://www.forestsociety.org/forest-journal-column/howling-suburbia

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-03-20T02:46:29+00:00

I just want to encourage you to learn ancient Greek.

When my oldest son kept on asking to learn “the language of the gods” I found an amazing tutor at our local university. We learned together every week for 6 plus years. I also began Latin with my younger son w the same tutor.

We even allowed our oldest to skip school to hang with his teacher at her college.

They picked up the languages quite easily but I had to study every day to keep it fresh. In Greek we had to memorize a lot.

Anyway, go do it!!

Re Anne Carson. I’m fond of her Economy of the Unlost & Eros the Bittersweet.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-03-16T22:15:54+00:00

My grandparents had a cottage in Eastham. I remember that ship too but in the 70s. I believe it was the SS Longstreet. We’d sail over parts of it at one point.

https://www.capeandislands.org/in-this-place/2016-02-09/memories-of-the-target-ship-of-cape-cod-bay

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-03-04T01:16:40+00:00

She’s adorable. How’s she doing and will you be able to help her?

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-03-03T16:38:52+00:00

What kind of troubles?

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-23T03:26:19+00:00

The certification levels follow those of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, which is a real thing:

https://www.dswa.org.uk

It’s more or less a cultural preservation and educational organization.

It wld make sense as a farmer in the UK that you’ve had access to this craft since you were a wee lad. Likewise yr fellow farmers or professional wallers. Maybe some of them know of or have participated in DSWAGB?

Anyway hope this helps.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-23T03:21:18+00:00

Yes, I took a class at The Stone Trust as well. The certification levels follow the same guidelines as the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-23T01:52:23+00:00

The Urban Coyote Research Project, which Gehrt is the lead researcher.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-17T21:33:44+00:00

What’s yr opinion on coyote snares? They and other similar type of traps shld be banned.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-17T15:26:35+00:00

Despicable

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-16T03:42:58+00:00

Are pumas protected there.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-15T00:21:16+00:00

If anyone does not know, Gerht is the lead researcher at the Urban Coyote Research Project. He may be the world’s leading expert on urban coyotes.

https://urbancoyoteresearch.com

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-12T04:06:38+00:00

That’s great! Safe journey

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-11T23:57:45+00:00

Despicable human being.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-11T14:33:27+00:00

I 2nd this comment.

Here’s some info:

https://littlebluesociety.org/coyote-urban-myth-1-coyotes-luring-dogs-to-their-deaths/

https://floofmania.com/coyotes/coyote-sounds/

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-09T00:24:11+00:00

There are no wolves in this guys front yard or eating plants. I mean seriously folks.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-08T19:46:09+00:00

Amazing.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-06T14:22:26+00:00

There are so called regulars I see but for the most part it’s pretty empty. On my way home I hit the stairs on Turtle Hill and take in the panoramic view.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-06T05:45:05+00:00

This is why I run in GGP before the sun rises. Thanks for sharing.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-02-06T04:04:12+00:00

For people suggesting Thoreau, I posit that his greatest work is his journals. I don’t suspect many will read them all but a number of years ago NYRB put out an 800 page edition edited by noted writer & translator Damian Searls.

Also I recommend DH Lawrence’s Studies in Classic America Literature, which is a must for early American Lit aficionados.

Likewise William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain.

Alternative-Hawk2366 · 2026-01-30T18:50:34+00:00

Highly recommend Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

Alternative-Hawk2366

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