• Underfoot
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 18 at 11:47:13 pm | 9 comments

    Verdugo Hills Resident

    Hiking pal Erica and I found this cute little guy in the Verdugo Hills, between Burbank and La Cañada Flintridge. We’d been warned about his (?) presence by a mountain biker with a golden lab puppy, who apparently tossed rocks at it to get it to

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  • Letters from the desert: Crotalus scutulatus
    By Chris Clarke on 2008 09 29 at 9:23:29 pm | 0 comments

    Were one to insist on a strictly rational, actuarial accounting of the risks involved, one would of necessity admit that the little meeting The Raven and I had Saturday with the most dangerous snake in North America was not the riskiest thing

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