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Short story: Three backpackers decide to hike the Lost Coast right before Christmas. There is an angry local, rain, a bear and the adventure ends with one of the backpackers needing rescue on Christmas Eve. Long story can be found on this outdoor adventure blog. Here’s an excerpt: We all eventually made it to the firehouse where we marked up
Read moreZoologist, writer, eco-tour owner, scuba diving instructor and top marijuana defense lawyer Robert Cogen (right) works with his assistant putting together complicated stained glass creations in his Eureka studio. [Photos by Kym Kemp.] Slender, with a body twisted like a weak vine around a strong inner core of determination, Eureka resident Robert Cogen inches his way from his home to
Read moreLongtime tireless community volunteer, Jackie Pantaleo, has been diagnosed with breast and liver cancer. She’s fighting back but needs help with finances. The community is rallying round her. On Saturday, January 24, everyone is invited to a festive night at the Mateel Community Center to have fun and raise some money to help her. A GoFundMe site has also been
Read moreA lighted holiday parade wound from Redway to Garberville yesterday evening. Come along with us and enjoy the sights and sounds of the event. You might try imaging the following poem sung to Do You Hear What I Hear as you read along. In fact, for a little holiday silliness, sing along yourself. Imagine you been browsing in small shops. You
Read moreMendocino County Sheriff’s Office press release: On 11-15-2014 at 4:53 PM Deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to reports of an armed individual threatening people in the area of Road D and Webb Ranch Road in Redwood Valley, California. Upon arriving in the area Deputies spoke with witnesses who identified Timothy Abshire has having brandished a rifle
Read moreIn his 30 years as a member of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, Lt. Steve Knight has collected quite a few stories and seen the world of law enforcement change drastically. He’s gone from a student in wildlife biology at Humboldt State to a lieutenant in charge of criminal investigations and, as the public information officer, he has been the
Read moreHumboldt unveiled in The New Yorker‘s Photo Booth section. The New Yorker just published a photo piece with lush images from Grassland, a book about–what else?—marijuana in Humboldt County. There’s just a short paragraph of writing but a dozen images rich with the sensory experiences of cannabis culture accompany the feature. Want to see the spread? Go here. Want to see
Read moreScreenshot from Stroud’s Facebook page. [Snapped of a photo taken from here.] Les Stroud, host of Survivorman, is having trouble with what Humboldt folks call normal life. (Remember, he’s up here shooting an episode of his show.) This morning, he wrote on his Facebook page, well – I’m [in] Hoopa California in the mountains trying to shoot this episode – and
Read moreCraigslist is notorious for ads with an attitude or a bizarre twist. (See here for one that went viral. See here for a group of local ads with a Emerald Triangle twist.) Yesterday’s ad from Eureka has the potential to go viral. (The language gets a bit salty so beware scrolling below the photo to read it.) We’d sure like
Read more[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEBDEcN-m6k] With a click of the arrow above. much of the beauty of Humboldt–compressed and collapsed into less than five minutes–flows across the screen. (The starry skies in the last half of the video are particularly vivid.) Photographer/videographer Ryan Johnson began working on this project about six months ago. He believes he took over 10,000 photos in his effort
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