Oasis Camel Dairy Open Farm, Mariachi Music and Folkloric Dance
Events March 1-March 4, 2020
Various Authors noon, Feb. 23
Warner Springs
San Diego's weird backcountry real estate
No traffic, but you need septic tank, well, propane
Bad foundations. Leaky pipes. Illegal garage conversions. Death (owner or otherwise) on a property. These are all things that have at least once derailed the sale of a piece of real estate during my 20 ...
Warner Springs – place of contention
Cupeños ejected, nearby Pacific Crest Trail, fights among the Ranch dwellers, Pala Indians try to take it back, Orange Co. men's tragedy
The blackest of crimes committed against Warner Ranch Indians Lummis rode past sturdy, whitewashed adobe houses with thatched roofs. When he reached the center of the village, anxious eyes approached. The Cupeños were desperate for ...
The microclimates of Highway 79
Two botanists take Reader writer for a ride
From Temecula, to Aguanga, Warner Springs, Julian, Lake Cuyamaca, and Descanso, Highway 79 winds, climbs, and wiggles 82 miles through deserts, mountains, foothills, valleys, and oases. Two botanists are showing me the entirety of Highway ...
Trail angels: From Campo to Canada on foot
Bread Stick = Trail Food
“Each day on the trail was the only possible preparation for the one that followed.” — Cheryl Strayed, from her introduction to Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Two separate tragedies on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation
Treacherous Santiago Canyon Road
Leonard Duguay’s 85th birthday came and went on July 5, 2016, without celebration. The Modjeska Canyon resident had disappeared and the search for him took a mysterious turn weeks later when his car was found ...
Near desert places
A changed Jacumba, the little towns of Highway 80, and the drama of Warner Springs
A Quiet Street and an Old Hotel He smeared my whole body and face with mineral oil and began rubbing it around with a machine that whined and felt warm. A cord led from his ...
In search of the unwanted
This land is mine: The Cupeño removal of 1903, part two of four
U.S. government didn’t fool Cecilio Blacktooth.
Barker Valley
Hike in a secluded mountain valley in the shadow of Palomar Mountain
Barker Valley, sitting at the southern end of Palomar Mountain and between the peak of Palomar Mountain to the north and Lake Henshaw to the south, is one of the most remote and least-visited locations ...
SOHO seeks volunteer craftsmen for Adobe University
Local preservationist group Saving Our Heritage Organisation has issued a call for participants in a renewal of its Adobe University program to train modern amateur craftsmen in the art of adobe construction. According to a ...
Pala Indians don't get Warner Springs Ranch
But unusual bankruptcy court deal suggests Pala may eventually triumph.
Bankruptcy Court Judge Louise Adler has awarded ailing Warner Springs Ranch to the low bidder, denying it to the Pala Indians, but an unusual twist suggests to some skeptics that the tribe will eventually get ...
Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail along Agua Caliente Creek
Stands of majestic oaks and sycamores line a bubbling stream along a section of the trail.
Hike to San Diego County’s Eagle Rock on the PCT
No doubt why it is called “Eagle Rock”
Be amazed by a rock formation that really looks like an eagle!
Don’t Lien on Me: The Pala Band Tries to Return to Warner Springs
In 1903, Native Americans who had occupied Warner Hot Springs and surrounding land for many generations were forced by the United States to evacuate in a three-day trek called the Trail of Tears. But a ...
Death Alley
The Butterfield Stage line between Warner’s Ranch and Oak Grove was a narrow trail, dusty in summer, soggy in winter, rutted the year round. On its weekly treks, the stage always stopped at Deadman’s Hole, ...
Caliente Wilderness
North of Warner Springs, a several-miles-long segment of the 2650-mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) traverses Cleveland National Forest land that may one day be designated the “Caliente Wilderness Area.” Certainly the area is remote enough ...
Why Warner Springs Ranch is in hot water
Pala Indians willing to buy property
The most attractive asset of the Warner Springs Ranch is the spring-fed, hot mineral water pool. So maybe it’s fitting that through the years, this backcountry ranch has been in financial hot water. After opening ...
Concert IMBY
Steve Rohrer booked the bands for "Ranchita Rocks," a three-day event at which 40 bands will play. Concertgoers are encouraged to camp out on the 160-acre Golightly Farms Ranch between Warner Springs and Julian. Rohrer's ...
Horse Sense
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. -- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh I t was 8 ...
Care Package
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great. -- Roger De Bussy-Rabutin I was reluctant to leave, even though it had been my decision to go. ...
To Protect Creation
78 Miles of Heat and Sand
'I spent four hours in a real intense sandstorm," says activist Kelly Fuller. "I had a painter's mask and a bandana on and pulled the hood of my jacket down over my face. When it ...
The Pacific Crest Trail follows the currently lively Agua Caliente Creek near Warner Springs
Until about 30 years ago, the canyon of Agua Caliente Creek, in the Cleveland National Forest above Warner Springs, seldom saw the intrusion of humans. After the 2600-mile-long Pacific Crest Trail was routed through, it ...
Indian Flats, in the Cleveland National Forest near Warner Springs, offers mellow summer camping
What better way is there to pique a child's interest in nature than to introduce him or her to a shallow, lazily flowing river full of tadpoles and frogs? At Indian Flats Campground, you can ...
Bag San Diego County's highest peak-Hot Springs Mountain-on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation.
Some of the loftiest -- and loneliest -- mountain country in San Diego County lies on the 25,000-acre Los Coyotes Indian Reservation. You won't find any casino here, but you will discover San Diego County's ...
An Indian Chief Envisions the Mother of All Warpaths
But Cahuilla Juan Antonio turns over Cupeno rebel Garra to white man
On November 25, the Los Angeles County judge, Augustin Olvera, advised Juan Antonio to contact Garra about the uprising. “If Garra could explain his grievances,” Olvera wrote, “the problem could be settled without further violence.”
Your Dad Arrested My Dad
San Diego backcountry sheriffs don’t enjoy anonymity.
The difference between the $55,000 the hypothetical deputy in Lemon Grove can make by moving to Campo and the $52,500 he can make as a corporal staying in Lemon Grove is only $2500.
