Tag: Recreation

Camping equipment

Posted by Shane – September 24, 2007

After our trip to the Sequoia National Park it has become evident that we need a few things. Most importantly a little stove and some cookware. While we could just run out to most any store and get a camp stove, I would rather have something that will serve two purposes. Snow Peak Giga Power Stove Most of our camping together will be done out of the car, but I do want to do some backpacking. As such, I would like any equipment that we buy to work well enough that it serves our purposes while camping from the car, but also small and light enough that I wouldn’t mind hauling a few miles on a trail. To that end, Jeff has suggested the Snow Peak Giga Power Stove (non-Titanium).

I have looked this stove over and it seems to be a perfect fit! Thanks Jeff.

Hurkey Creek

Posted by Shane – July 6, 2006

I went on a little hike up a trail in Hurkey Park today. The weather was beautiful, the water was cool and I can’t imagine a better way to spend a few hours. I took my dogs, who thoroughly enjoyed the hike as well. I was rather surprised to find a number of California Tree Frogs (Pseudacris cadaverina) there.

NOTE: clicking on the image will take you to Flickr where I have more pictures from the hike.

Hurkey Creek Park

Posted by Shane – July 6, 2006

This past weekend, we went camping at Hurkey Creek Park which is a Riverside County Park located within the San Bernardino National Forest.

The weather was pleasant, although it was a tad warm during the day, mostly due to the fact that we probably had the least shade of any campsite in the entire park! While we didn’t do any real hiking, we did go for a short walk up the trail that parallels the creek. After about a half hour of walking, we turned towards the creek for some much needed toe dipping. We spent the better part of 2 hours just lounging by the creek on a rock that was perfectly suited for such activities. While we were relaxing I spotted a number of California Tree Frogs! As many of you may know, I am a highly experienced frog hunter, so this was exciting for me. Unfortunately, Ace (my sister’s yellow Labrador Retriever) is now also an expert frog hunter. Fortunately he only got one of the frogs which is far less damage to the population than a friend of mine and I did on many of our hunting expeditions, of course those expeditions had scientific value so all was not lost.

I will post some pictures as well as a map using Google Earth [see previous post].