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Dan Greaney’s Bird Words Book… What Dan Greaney doesn’t know about birds could probably fit in a sparrow’s beak. Much of what he does know is featured in his recently published book,Read More

Hit the Trail for the Bigfoot Adventure Challenge… It’s gotta be the socks. How else to explain why nearly 400 people entered last year’s Bigfoot Adventure Challenge last year, completingRead More

Know Your Farmer in Siskiyou County… The tagline on the Siskiyou County Cattlewomen’s website is “Top Beef from the Top of the State.” And if you ask a few ofRead More

The Mustang Project… In 1999, Tracy Mohr adopted her first wild mustang. She had grown up with horses, but all of them had been tamed. When Mohr ended up inRead More

Quinten DeJong Specializes in Personal Training for Race Car Drivers… Decades before NASCAR was born in 1948, there was dirt track racing. Started before World War I, but growing inRead More

Camp Cinder Helps Integrate Women Into the Fire Service… When Katie Mason went out to find a summer job in her hometown of Yreka, her stepmother encouraged her to applyRead More

Downtown Redding’s Bike Depot… Can you envision Redding transformed into a cyclist’s haven, linked to a network of trails that provide safe, easy access to your job downtown? You couldRead More

Girls on the Run… At a regional park on a warm spring day, hundreds of girls of all ages are pumping themselves up to run a 5K. For many, thisRead More

Forging the Sacramento River from Mount Shasta to the Golden Gate Bridge… “When you find a good adventure buddy, it’s like hitting the jackpot,” says outdoor enthusiast and paddler AriRead More

Reaching New Heights with Shasta Mountain Guides… In 1856, the Shasta Courier proclaimed: “September 16, the famous mountain Shasta Butte was ascended by a party of ladies, where they celebratedRead More

Shasta View Lodge in McCloud… A fairytale mountain wedding requires the perfect blend of seclusion, serenity and scenery, and the newly renovated Shasta View Lodge in McCloud offers all ofRead More

Rockside Ranch in Etna… “Restoration is the process of restoring what once was. And so, when I think of life restoration, I think things were going in a good directionRead More

Mt. Shasta Offers a Wide Variety of Outdoor Fun… For winter adventurers in Mt. Shasta, the chill in the air becomes a beckoning call to the great outdoors. “The wholeRead More

Victor’s Christmas Trees Sourced from Mt. Shasta… It’s 2023, and the the tallest live cut tree this year in Orange County owes its provenance to Mt. Shasta. During its tenureRead More

Matt Dahl’s Grunt Fly Fishing… As a boy, fly fishing was something Matt Dahl could enjoy with his grandfather, Les. As an ex-Marine with two Iraqi deployments under his belt,Read More

Native American Boats Crafted by Marc Daniels… Marc Daniels has long been fascinated with sealskin boats, and lately he’s become rather obsessed with the nigilax, a large open boat traditionalRead More

On the Water with John Acuna… John Acuna is a man of many titles. “Oh, man, that’s tough. It’s been a running joke this summer to figure out what theRead More

Local Animal Study with California Fish and Wildlife Department… When wintertime hits the Northern California coast, Angela Rehse goes out hunting for black-tailed deer. She’s hunting with a pneumatic rifleRead More

Rest and Relax at Hope Inn, Redding… Forty years ago, when Kirk and Denise Schauer were on their honeymoon in Santa Barbara, they stayed at a bed and breakfast. EnjoyingRead More

Scott Valley Community Compost Program… It’s estimated that a third of the world’s food goes to waste, mostly ending up in landfills and held hostage in plastic trash bags thatRead More