Forest Route 2N13B to Butler Peak
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One of the best easy off-road trails in Big Bear, California has to be 2N13B, which leads to Butler Peak. This well maintained dirt road winds and climbs its way up from 2N13, near Gray's Peak Group Camp and Hanna Rocks, to an open parking area at the start of the foot trail to the Butler Peak fire watch tower. Views from the tower are impressive. This is one of few places where you can see Big Bear Lake on one side and Lake Arrowhead on the other.
The forest service will typically close this trail (and 2N13) at the 1st snow fall, until spring. You can call the Big Bear Discovery Center for current road conditions 909-382-2790.
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Top 18 Things to Do in Big Bear Lake, California
Top 18 Things to Do in Big Bear Lake, California. List: Big Bear Alpine Zoo at Moonridge, Castle Rock Trail, Action Zipline Tours, Mountain Resort, Alpine Slide at Magic Mountain, Meadow Park, Boulder Bay Park, Historical Museum, Butler Peak, Cougar Crest Trail, Pine Knot Village, Alpine Pedal Path, Bowling Barn, Solar Observatory, The Cave
Day Trip to Big Bear Lake for July 4th Fireworks - Castle Rock Trail
For July 4th in southern california this year we decided to visit Big Bear Lake to have a day outdoors and in nature and to do something different. We spend so much time on our phones, cameras, and computers that we rarely go out and get sunshine or exercise. Come along and join us as we take a hike on the Castle Rock Trail and explore the city.
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The Off-Road Trails of Big Bear Lake
A lot of people don’t expect to find alpine scenery when they come to Southern California, but the Inland Empire’s Big Bear area abounds with it. Located at about 6,700-feet/2,000-meter elevation, Big Bear Lake and its surrounding peaks offer all-season fun, from winter sports at Big Bear Mountain and Snow Summit to hiking, cycling, water sports, and helicopter rides during the summer. There are even some unexpected attractions nearby (like bald eagles and Himalayan cuisine) as well as good wine tasting.
Jacoby Canyon, Big Bear CA
JustRuns 4x4 Club from San Diego - ran 6 Jeeps and 1 Dodge Power Wagon to Jacoby Canyon, Big Bear, CA on Sep 22, 2012. Very scenic.
Big Bear Lake, Pacific Crest Trail
There are gorgeous panoramic views of Big Bear Lake, especially from the Pacific Crest Trail. This short video is taken from the Holcomb View Trails (for more photos:
You can see San Gorgonio Mountain in the backgorund along with Snow Summit and Bear Mountain resorts.
Kenda US CUP 2015 CAT3 Big Bear#2 first half fire road mountain biking
Kenda US CUP 2015 CAT3 first half fire road mountain biking
Morton Peak with Glenn Ross
It is 4,624 feet above sea level. The Morton Peak lookout is one of seven lookouts that are maned by volunteers and owned by the San Bernardino Forest Service. Do you like a room with a view? Members of the public are allowed to spend the night here. Glenn Ross talks with Fire Lookout Coordinator, George Morey. Video Journalist, Glenn Ross is up for hire: glennross52@hotmail.com.
Massive wildfires from Alaska to drought-hit California
Firefighters in Alaska and California battle wildfires that have shut down trails and roads, and forced residents to evacuate. Firefighters were working on Friday (June 19) to contain several massive wildfires raging from Alaska to drought-hit California that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate from their homes and damaged dozens of structures.
In Alaska, about 900 firefighters were battling two major blazes in a state that has 56 active wildfires ranging from a few acres to 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares), officials said.
A fire in Sterling, about 140 miles (225 kms) south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula, has blackened more than 7,500 acres (3,000 hectares).
The second major fire, in Willow, about 40 miles (65 kms) north of Anchorage, has charred slightly more than 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares).
The fires have destroyed about 40 structures, forced nearly 1,000 people from their homes and restricted traffic on a major highway this week.
In drought-stricken California fires continue to plague the state.
One wildfire near Fresno is being called the Corrine fire and has burned approximately 1,000 acres (404 hectares) and is only 5 percent contained, according to California fire officials.
The Corrine fire has forced the evacuation of area residents and has burned three outbuildings.
Further south a larger fire, the so-called Lake Fire in a mountainous national forest outside Los Angeles had swelled to 11,000 acres (4,500 hectares) on Friday from 7,500 acres (3,000 hectares) the day before as it scorched old-growth timber on steep slopes and threatened some 150 structures, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.
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Buck Rock Lookout Part 2
Legend has it that if you look at the rock from a certain angle, you can see the profile of an Indian warrior. In times gone by, we use to call male Indians bucks thus the name. Native Americans referred to the rock as Finger Rock.
Located in the Sequoia National Forest, Kings Canyon National Patrk. Buck Rock Lookout sits perched atop a granite dome and offers a breathtaking view of the Great Western Divide and other spectacular high mountain peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Access to the top is via a series of stair flights (consisting of 172 steps) suspended from the side of the rock. The current lookout building was constructed in 1923 and is historically significant as a representation of the earliest 4-A style live-in cabs of which there are only three in existence in the world today.
In 1914, a telephone was installed and a phone line between Pinehurst and Buck Rock was carried by mules and restrung at the beginning of each season.
Originally, only long slim tree trunks with boards nailed across for steps led to the top. A series of ladders for climbing to the lookout.
In 1942, a stairway with 172 steps was added to ease the climb. By the 1980s, electricity replaced gas and wood as a source of energy, and today the lookout enjoys many of the modern conveniences of most homes.
The story begins in 1876 when the first fire lookout was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad on Red Mountain near Donner Summit to watch for train fires. In 1905, Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot reorganized the forest reserves into the United States Forest Service. Pinchots philosophy of total exclusion of fires made it necessary to create an efficient organization of fire prevention and detection. Within three years California constructed its first two permanent forest fire lookout stations.
Initially, fire lookouts were crude camps temporarily set up at patrol points where an observer might ride his horse to make observations. Others were crows nests platforms built atop the highest trees. Fire watchers often doubled as fire fighters. Spotting a smoke, he would hop on his horse or hike cross-country to quench the fire. By 1914, construction standards were in place and soon thereafter, both wooden live-in cabs and steel observation only towers were being built. Two years later 81 permanent lookout structures stood on key mountain tops.
Then came the 1930s. America was in the throes of the Great Depression. As President, Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized government programs to put the unemployed back to work. Labor work forces like the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCCs) were assigned to various public works projects and building fire lookouts was one of those. It was also the time when forestry departments nationwide were determined to put a fire lookout on top of every mountain to protect valuable timber resources. Constructing lookouts became a priority, and with the help of the CCCs, fire watch towers sprung up across the land. Builders seemed undeterred by the precarious and remote locations of many stations. In their heyday, over 8,000 lookouts dotted the countryside, over 600 in California alone.
World War II sparked a new development in the history of fire lookouts. In the spring of 1942, the Army Air Forces arm mobilized the Aircraft Warning Service and utilized fire lookouts across the country as enemy aircraft observation points. Two or more watchers staffed each lookout 24 hours a day 365 days a year until the war ended. Americas entry into the war brought about another change for fire lookouts women. In 1944, females joined the Forest Service work force and began a long tradition of staffing fire towers.
The vigor was not to last. During the 1960s and 1970s most fire lookouts and their dedicated watchers were phased out. With increased emphasis on using airplanes and helicopters for fire detection and suppression, a let-burn policy in many wilderness areas and a growing number of visitors and residents in the forests, attitudes towards staffing lookouts have changed. Fire lookouts across the country face extinction. Today there are only a few hundred in operation. Once considered a proud symbol of our nations conservation heritage, fire lookouts are a fading legacy.
Hiking the Crafton Hills After Work - Yucaipa CA
After work this past week Matt and I decided to hike the Crafton Hills. We hiked from the college along the fire road. We ran out of sunlight before we could make Zanja peak.
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List of defunct department stores of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:20 1 Department stores merged with Federated and May
00:07:34 2 Other department stores
00:07:44 2.1 Alabama
00:09:09 2.2 Alaska
00:09:23 2.3 Arizona
00:10:04 2.4 Arkansas
00:10:39 2.5 California
00:20:50 2.6 Colorado
00:21:54 2.7 Connecticut
00:24:16 2.8 Delaware
00:25:07 2.9 District of Columbia
00:25:48 2.10 Florida
00:27:58 2.11 Georgia
00:30:20 2.12 Hawaii
00:30:31 2.13 Idaho
00:31:39 2.14 Illinois
00:36:08 2.15 Indiana
00:39:51 2.16 Iowa
00:40:47 2.17 Kansas
00:41:36 2.18 Kentucky
00:43:29 2.19 Louisiana
00:45:37 2.20 Maine
00:46:59 2.21 Maryland
00:48:43 2.22 Massachusetts
00:53:32 2.23 Michigan
00:57:54 2.24 Minnesota
01:00:25 2.25 Mississippi
01:01:23 2.26 Missouri
01:02:57 2.27 Montana
01:03:52 2.28 Nebraska
01:04:51 2.29 New Hampshire
01:05:18 2.30 New Jersey
01:07:15 2.31 New Mexico
01:07:37 2.32 New York
01:14:27 2.33 North Carolina
01:15:26 2.34 North Dakota
01:15:56 2.35 Ohio
01:28:12 2.36 Oklahoma
01:29:18 2.37 Oregon
01:29:44 2.38 Pennsylvania
01:35:19 2.39 Rhode Island
01:35:55 2.40 South Carolina
01:36:48 2.41 South Dakota
01:37:03 2.42 Tennessee
01:38:43 2.43 Texas
01:42:20 2.44 Utah
01:43:19 2.45 Vermont
01:44:09 2.46 Virginia
01:45:14 2.47 Washington
01:47:48 2.48 West Virginia
01:48:53 2.49 Wisconsin
01:50:47 2.50 National and regional
01:54:01 3 See also
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This is a list of defunct department stores of the United States, from small-town one-unit stores to mega-chains, which have disappeared over the past 100 years. Many closed, while others were sold or merged with other department stores.
John C. Frémont | Wikipedia audio article
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John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led five expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder.During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination over a conflict of who was the rightful military governor of California. After his sentence was commuted and he was reinstated by President Polk, Frémont resigned from the Army. Frémont led a private fourth expedition, which cost ten lives, seeking a rail route over the mountains around the 38th parallel in the winter of 1849. Afterwards, Frémont settled in California at Monterey while buying cheap land in the Sierra foothills. When gold was found on his Mariposa ranch, Frémont became a wealthy man during the California Gold Rush, but he was soon bogged down with lawsuits over land claims, between the dispossession of various land owners during the Mexican–American War and the explosion of Forty-Niners immigrating during the Rush. These cases were settled by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing Frémont to keep his property. Frémont's fifth and final privately funded expedition, between 1853 and 1854, surveyed a route for a transcontinental railroad. Frémont became one of the first two U.S. senators elected from the new state of California in 1850. Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party, carrying most of the North. He lost the 1856 presidential election to Democrat James Buchanan when Know Nothings split the vote. Democrats warned that his election would lead to civil war.During the American Civil War, he was given command of Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Although Frémont had successes during his brief tenure as Commander of the Western Armies, he ran his department autocratically, and made hasty decisions without consulting Washington D.C. or President Lincoln. After Frémont's emancipation edict that freed slaves in his district, he was relieved of his command by President Lincoln for insubordination. In 1861, Frémont was the first commanding Union general who recognized in Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant an iron will to fight and promoted him commander at the strategic base near Cairo, Illinois. Defeating the Confederates at Springfield, Frémont was the only Union General in the West to have a Union victory for 1861. After a brief service tenure in the Mountain Department in 1862, Frémont resided in New York, retiring from the Army in 1864. The same year Frémont was a presidential candidate for the Radical Democracy Party, but he resigned before the election. After the Civil War, Frémont's wealth declined after investing heavily and purchasing an unsuccessful Pacific Railroad in 1866, and lost much of his wealth during the Panic of 1873. Frémont served as Governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1881 appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes. Frémont retired from politics and died destitute in New York City in 1890.
Historians portray Frémont as controversial, impetuous, and contradictory. Some scholars regard him as a military hero of significant accomplishment, while others view him as a failure who repeatedly defeated his own best purposes. The keys to Frémont's character and personality may lie in his being born illegitimately, his ambitious drive for success, self-justification, and passive-aggressive behavior. Frémont's published reports and maps produced from his explorations significantly contributed to massive American emigration overland into the West starting in the 1840s. In June 1846 ...
History of the United States Marine Corps | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:13 1 Background
00:11:42 1.1 Colonial era
00:16:49 2 Continental era
00:45:42 3 Establishment of the modern Marine Corps
00:50:42 3.1 Henderson's era
00:55:17 4 Civil War
00:59:24 4.1 Confederate Marines
00:59:42 5 Latter 19th century
01:02:50 5.1 Spanish– & Philippine–American Wars
01:04:52 6 Early 1900s
01:08:18 6.1 Banana Wars
01:14:35 7 World War I
01:18:19 7.1 A new amphibious mission
01:23:54 8 World War II
01:27:32 8.1 Interim: WWII-Korea
01:33:24 9 Korean War
01:35:07 9.1 Interim: Korea-Vietnam
01:36:31 10 Vietnam War
01:37:30 10.1 Interim: post-Vietnam War
01:41:24 11 The 1990s
01:41:33 11.1 Gulf War
01:42:11 11.2 Bosnian War
01:43:26 11.3 Other
01:45:34 12 Twenty-first century
01:46:42 12.1 War in Afghanistan
01:47:51 12.2 Iraq War
01:49:26 13 See also
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The history of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) begins with the founding of the Continental Marines on 10 November 1775 to conduct ship-to-ship fighting, provide shipboard security and discipline enforcement, and assist in landing forces. Its mission evolved with changing military doctrine and foreign policy of the United States. Owing to the availability of Marine forces at sea, the United States Marine Corps has served in nearly every conflict in United States history. It attained prominence when its theories and practice of amphibious warfare proved prescient, and ultimately formed a cornerstone of the Pacific Theater of World War II. By the early 20th century, the Marine Corps would become one of the dominant theorists and practitioners of amphibious warfare. Its ability to rapidly respond on short notice to expeditionary crises has made and continues to make it an important tool for U.S. foreign policy.In February 1776, the Continental Marines embarked on their maiden expedition. The Continental Marines were disbanded at the end of the war, along with the Continental Navy. In preparation for the Quasi-War with France, Congress created the United States Navy and the Marine Corps. The Marines' most famous action of this period occurred in the First Barbary War (1801–1805) against the Barbary pirates. In the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), the Marines made their famed assault on Chapultepec Palace, which overlooked Mexico City, their first major expeditionary venture. In the 1850s, the Marines would see service in Panama, and in Asia. During the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865) the Marine Corps played only a minor role after their participation in the Union defeat at the first battle of First Bull Run/Manassas. Their most important task was blockade duty and other ship-board battles, but they were mobilized for a handful of operations as the war progressed. The remainder of the 19th century would be a period of declining strength and introspection about the mission of the Marine Corps. Under Commandant Jacob Zeilin's term (1864–1876), many Marine customs and traditions took shape. During the Spanish–American War (1898), Marines would lead U.S. forces ashore in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, demonstrating their readiness for deployment. Between 1900 and 1916, the Marine Corps continued its record of participation in foreign expeditions, especially in the Caribbean and Central and South America, which included Panama, Cuba, Veracruz, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Nicaragua.
In World War I, battle-tested, veteran Marines served a central role in the United States' entry into the conflict. Between the world wars, the Marine Corps was headed by Major General John A. Lejeune, another popular commandant. In World War II, the Marines played a central role, under Admiral Nimitz, in the Pacific War, participating in nearly every significant battle. The Corps also ...
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Emergency First Responders: Treating Mental Health Issues in a Culture of Mental Toughness
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Emergency First Responders: Treating Mental Health Issues in a Culture of Mental Toughness
Presenter: Sara G. Gilman
Description:
Emergency services personnel come with a variety of job titles: police officers, SWAT team members, firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, 911 telecommunicators and emergency room staff, as well as military service members and social workers. There are similarities and differences among those with the “rescue personality,” and first responders tend to be resistant in seeking help due to a perception of “weakness.” By understanding these factors, the clinician is better able to establish rapport and credibility.
In this presentation, practical approaches of how to explain first-responder stress and how PTSD manifests itself will be described, including the influence of chronic sleep disruption. Ms. Gilman is a former firefighter/EMT and has extensive experience with this population. This presentation will discuss case examples utilizing the evidence-based treatments such as EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy.
Learning Objectives:
Those attending this lecture will gain:
• an understanding of the working culture of the first responder and how to address mental health issues within this culture
• an understanding of the first responder personality, the stressful challenges they face in their careers and how PTSD can manifest itself
• an introduction to EMDR therapy, an evidence-based treatment that has proven to be effective in treating first responders
Speaker Bio:
Ms. Gilman is a licensed marriage and family therapist, specializing in the areas of traumatic stress, addictions and peak performance training with athletes and other performers. She is the owner and president of Coherence Associates, Inc. a professional counseling corporation.
Having graduated in 1983 from California State University, Fullerton with a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology, she also holds certifications in NLP, hypnosis, coaching, and Heartmath. Sara is a former San Diego rural firefighter and EMT, and has served on the San Diego Critical Incident Stress Management Team for more than 10 years. She is a diplomat in forensic traumatology, holds fellowship status with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and is an EMDR-approved consultant and past president of the EMDR International Association Board of Directors. She serves on the board of the 911 Wellness Foundation as the chief mental health officer. Sara also lectures nationally and appears on TV discussing the topics of stress in the work place, trauma, addiction and mental toughness.
With her passion for assisting all first responders, she consults with agencies to build strong peer-support teams and trains personnel in peak performance and mental toughness for the first responder. Her trainings focus on the importance of maintaining mental health and building ongoing resiliency in this uniquely demanding profession, addressing issues such as the wear and tear on first responders and how to stay healthy from both physiological and psychological standpoints.
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love | Audio book with subtitles
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Nat LOVE
Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as a Pullman Porter. For me, the most amazing thing about him is that despite the circumstances of his life, which included being owned like a farm animal solely because of the color of his skin and spending later decades living and working as an equal with white coworkers, he was an unrepentant racist! Convinced that the only good Indian was a dead one, and that all Mexicans were greasers and/or bums, he rarely passed up a chance to shoot a member of either group, whether in self-defense or cold blood, and shows no sign of having appreciated the difference. At one point, he fell in love with a Mexican girl but, apparently unable to tolerate this reality, considered her Spanish. Nat Love was a fascinating character who lived in equally interesting times, and one only wishes his autobiography was much longer and more detailed. summary by ohsostrange
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