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Jerry Schad
Jerry Schad authored the weekly column Roam-O-Rama for the Reader from 1993 to 2011. He is the author of many books about hiking and biking in Southern California and beyond. Jerry passed away in September 2011.
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Jerry Schad's Stories
Mortero Palms
Take a walk through Mortero Palms in the Jacumba Mountains of Anza-Borrego.
From the trailmaster’s favorites folder. "Limmipedes,” my three-year-old son called them, those many-legged survivors from the Mesozoic era, marching across the sand in seemingly random directions, oblivious to our flashlight beams. Our land of limmipedes, ...
End of the Trail
I began writing the Reader’s “Roam-O-Rama” column on January 28, 1993, with a description of a wild and lonely campsite in the Anza-Borrego Desert called Mortero Palms. This “Roam” column, my 861st, is the last ...
San Diego Zoo Loop
For a bit of morning exercise, especially if you’re a local San Diegan, consider this quick jaunt at the San Diego Zoo — a place not normally thought of as a hiking destination. Get there ...
Jerry Schad's Blog Entries
June Bugs Emerging
June Bugs are emerging as summer's warmth is finally upon us. The green June beetle, only one of some 300 species of scarab beetles found in Southern California, flashes a metallic green underbelly as its ...
Magnolia in Bloom
Magnolia, the southern-U.S.-native commonly planted as a decorative street tree in many of San Diego's older neighborhoods, continues to bloom this month. Its grandiose description in some botanical books as the "queen of the flowering ...
San Diego Heats Up
The heat of summer will most likely reach its feverish peak in inland San Diego County during the coming month of July. (Coastal San Diego is different: since its weather is greatly affected by the ...
Latest Sunset of the Year Tonight
The Latest Sunset of the year, 8:01 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time in San Diego, occurs tonight — Wednesday, June 29 — approximately one week after the summer solstice (our longest day). From now until late ...
Agaves Blooming
Agaves, (a.k.a. century plants), are coming into bloom in many summer gardens this month. After a decade or more (not a century) of growth, the larger kinds of agave send up a tall, yellow-blossomed flower ...
San Diego in Colorful Bloom
Colorful foliage along San Diego's coastline lingers, despite the lack of rainfall and warmer, drier days. In the older, landscaped neighborhoods of Coronado, Point Loma, Pacific Beach, and La Jolla you'll find oleander and hibiscus ...
Life's a (Cobbled) Beach
Cobbled shorelines are greeting some beachgoers early this summer season, as in past years. North County beaches tend to suffer most, as the natural sand replenishment in the area is disrupted by dams blocking the ...
