Hi notes

Wednesday May 28, 2003: This week Joan Carter and her extremely well- behaved dog Mika accompanied me to the lookout. We picked up signals from OR204, a four year old male Condor. Based on the direction of the signals, he appears to have flown from the vicinity of Hopper Mt. (in the south), proceeding north, to the west of the lookout, perhaps over Cuesta Grade, then to the...

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Huff's Hole

I hiked in with Gary Guliazi today, 5/26, from Hi Mtn. Rd, through Hi Valley, where we met up with Mike Tyner who hiked down from Hi Mtn. Lookout early in the morning. There were mountain lion scratches on the large outcrop with the grinding holes near Hi Valley Rock, and we followed bear tracks and scat signs into Huff’s Hole. This is my Huff’s Hole 25th anniversary year- camping out 3 1/2 months in...

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Hi notes

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted ‘notes’, so here are some ‘catch ups’. On Wednesday, 5/14/03 I picked up signals from three Condors (W231, W219 and OR204) in the direction of Atascadero/Cuesta Grade. There were reports from a couple of people who saw a Condor above Cuesta grade the following day, so perhaps the same birds hung around for a day or two. Yesterday I ‘heard’ from one Condor in...

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Huff's Hole

I just got off the phone talking to Gary Guliazi. He told me that last Tuesday, May 6th, Jamey Eddy, visiting from Wyoming, and Merlyn Felton, down from Pacific Grove, hiked their way in through Hi Valley to Huff’s Hole, below Hi Mountain (they got rained out trying last weekend). Jamey said the trail was the best he has ever seen it, so I guess it was worth the effort getting poison oak when I helped...

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Hi notes

Spent the day at the lookout Wednesday, April 30. It was another beautiful day and a perfect ending to April. The meadows just past the Pozo Ranger Station are blanketed with Lupine and Owl’s Clover and on the road to the lookout, Prickly Flox, Indian Paint Brush, Hummingbird Sage, Sticky Monkey Flower and many other flowers are still putting on a show. One Condor, B170, sent strong signals, initially...

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