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The Best Lake in the Sierra Nevada
According to one extremely biased source
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Rafting the Grand Canyon
Watch 7 days in the Grand Canyon distilled into three minutes on YouTube.
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100 Years of Hollywood: The Sign that Defined a City
How a giant billboard became LA’s most iconic landmark.
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The Pasadena Parrots
Where did they come from and what are they doing here?
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LA Field Guide - Campfire Chat
A place for outdoor inspiration and conversation. Bring your own s'mores.
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The Salton Sea: California's Accidental Desert Lake
Years of agricultural runoff transformed the bustling 60s lakefront resort into an environmental disaster, and things only seem to be getting worse.
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Who Was Owen Brown?
A gravesite off of the El Prieto trail in Altadena provides a window into the inciting incidents preceding the US Civil War.
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What gets me outdoors in a city famous for cars, concrete, and freeways.
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