I’M QUINCY KOETZ

An outdoorsman and Nurse Practitioner living in Northern California. When I first started this blog, I was an EMT living in Southern California and this blog has followed...

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 By Quincy Koetz

Crater Lake National Park in the Winter

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. ~Tom McCall, Oregon Wizard Island on the spectacularly clear Crater Lake Everyone has heard about Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. It one of the only other National Parks that everyone has heard about. However, unlike the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone, Crater Lake is a...

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Mountain Biking Orange County

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.  ~Albert Einstein  A Mountain Biking Mecca! Orange County is for Mountain Bikers You know what’s the funniest thing about the sport of mountain biking? Its a dirty, bloody, grungy sport populated by climber bums and middle aged...

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Outdoor Adventures in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon.  There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.  ~Norman Mailer This past week I...

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Exploring San Francisco Part 2: Hiking Trails in the City

It might surprise you to know that a city with a population density of 17,383 people per square mile has an abundance of hiking trails. As a matter of fact, a significant amount of San Francisco’s city space is set out as park land. In fact, the National Park Service operates “Golden Gate National Recreation...

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