Angeles National Forest, March 2024
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A young fella learns the importance of not overpacking your backpack before a hike.
Angeles National Forest, California
1962
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Great day for a hike ✨
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Peak near Mt. Wilson, Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, 2023.
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Nature is Essential
I had a chance to get out and wander in the local woodlands late last week, and that was very important for me as life in general lately has been fairly stressful. I was becoming easily distracted and quick to irritation, and the opportunity to get out and go wander in the Angeles National Forest just before the most recent rains rolled thru really helped me reset my patience and focus.
The tranquility that was there to be found really spoke to me, as it isn't lost on me that time in the wilderness necessitates patience (for a slew of reasons really), and this little mental analogy between my daily struggles and my current environment helped remind me about refocusing on that in my day-to-day life.
Nature is essential.
Let's go exploring.
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Angeles National Forest
July 2023
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Inside the 60 inch dome, Mount Wilson
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Angeles National Forest, February 2024
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Cedar Springs, Angeles National Highway, ca
12/7/23
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Telescope Dome, Mt. Wilson Observatory, Angeles National Forest, California, 2023.
The beginnings of "big science" and the evolution of astronomy as more than speculative star gazing are both encapsulated in this structure. Its telescopes are now obsolete for most kinds of optical observations in the visible spectrum as larger mirrors and locations far from urban light pollution make other observatories more useful for those. Mt. Wilson Observatory is still used for some other types of astronomical explorations. Amazing that only a little more than a century old, the observatory saw the known universe expand from a single galaxy to one of countless galaxies spread over billions of light years even as the number of planets known to orbit around stars has grown exponentially. Mt. Wilson's telescopes and the early astronomers who worked there laid the groundwork for all of the magnificent facilities now available to astronomy and astrophysics and for the discoveries they are making. Not least of those is the Webb Telescope in space 1.5 million + km from earth.
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