Tag: Loop

I moved to San Francisco for the Doom Loop

I moved to San Francisco in 1996. I quickly became part of a group of people led by my friend Desmond Crisis called the Otaku Patrol Group. We were all radio enthusiasts and technology fetishists who also wore a lot of leather. Desmond had kind of spliced a lot of old police equipment into the ...

Trip Review: Pine Valley / Church Creek Lollipop Loop

It feels a bit like I am beating a dead horse here, but I first came across descriptions of Pine Valley, Pine Falls, and Church Creek Valley through the writings of Leor Pantilat. Like many of the diverse microcosms of Big Sur and the Ventana Wilderness, the watersheds that drain the west side ...