Rinconada Trail -- Pozo area east of Santa Margarita

2-15-16

a few shots of the Rinconada trail  , beautiful weather and the landscape benefited from recent rains !

Sierra making friends again .

looking down from summit

view from i/2 way up looking west Cerro Alto in the background

below --cat tracks

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below canine tracks

sign at the summit  looking south west to rocky decent 

decent to High Mountain Rd and yes this is the trail , most hikers miss this  . I guess they cant accept this as the trail .

Pozo Bear tracks 1-13

 

Pozo Area

High Mountain Road

December 12, 2013

High Mountain Road ,located east of Santa Margarita ca. on Highway 58

The bears have been asleep for several weeks as the weather has been below freezing at nights for several weeks . These bears appear to be relocating for some unknown reason as they traveled for over 2 miles in a single file and there were several sizes of prints ( possibly a family from some disturbed den ? ) . The temperature this date was 32 degrees at 4 PM . I also noted that these tracks did not leave the single file journey that would indicate no attempt to feed . There was no bear scat along the way .

Does anyone have any thoughts on this posting ?

The link below will be help understand black bears.

 

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/bear/biology.html

 





 

 size 13 shoe

 

M dog sierra is a 60 lb Shepard .

 

 

 I were a size 13 shoe



 

 

 

 

ice on the ground

 

Sierra helps me documnent adn photograph .

 

 

 size 13 shoe

Big Falls up date

A few more shots of Big Falls
canyon , all are in the canyon except the rocky slope which is the
rinconada trail head at High Mt
rd. The lady is a lost runner , Jim is helping her read her map. He loves lady rescue work !!

Be sure to enjoy the short video of the falls at the bottom of the page.

The Big Falls located off High mountain e/o Santa Margarita Ca in the Los Padres National forest . Jim and I hiked from the park lot of the Rinconada trail head to High Mt Rd. and down the Big Falls Trail and then returned -- Approximately 16 miles . This is the first time I video recorded the falls . For more still photos see earlier postings .

Turkey Season open

March 25 , 2001 -- Saturday , at the Rinconada trail in Pozo ( e/o ) Santa Margarita Ca. A rainy day , Jim and I are about to hike when we were advised by Fish and Game officer of hunting in the area . We heard many gun shots . this officers heads up was welcome ! The officer identified himself as Togazzini ( I hope I spelled it right ). a couple of weeks ago we met turkey hunters exploring the area's turkey potential . This game warden upon learning of our interest in wild life on the trail was kind enough to show us a turkey confiscated today for an illegal hunt on private property .He explained how to identify a legal tom turkey see the beard on the neck -- close up photo. Good work Fish and Game ! Thanks for being an important part of wilderness trail life !

Back Packing Training 3-19-11

Saturday hike in Pozo , on the Rinconada Trail ( east of Santa Margarita Ca. ) brought me in contact with father and son team Dave and Nathan training for a week long back packing adventure to New Mexico with the Boy Scouts . It was pouring down rain and I found the umbrella a interesting piece of equipment . It warms my heart to see a dad teaching his son to love the wilderness !
Best of luck to you both , hope to see you again !

Pozo Turkey Hunter

Jim and I were hiking the Rinconada Trail when we met the turkey hunter wearing his trophies (turkey spurs ) !He claimed he had hiked 7 miles and saw no sign of turkeys . As we left the area we saw about 30 turkeys . Too bad for the hunter . Oh well that's the way luck is ?

night animal shots

I taught you might enjoy some night photos I took with a infra red camera in the Pozo Area . The quality is very poor but fun . The cougar shots were all far away from the camera and the jack rabbit , coyote , grey fox are close to the camera . Since I had to crop in all photos , size is deceptive . The cougars were really far from the camera but this cat is a mature animal with his back approximately 2 and 1/2 ft. high , it weighs approx . 165 lbs . I know this because I took some measurements of items in this are for comparison and used Adobe photo shop grid method to establish size .I have now seen several cougars both dead and alive in the field and now have a pretty good working knowledge of them . I have also photographed and measured dozens of cat tracks , both cougar and bob cat . The fox is a Grey Fox and is much larger than the red fox . The Coyote is large in this area about the size of a large dog .The jack rabbits are of average size and I was surprised to see them in this area as I have never seen them in the daylight here . ???? Note Golden Eagles abound in this area !!


 

nore Pozo fun

/remember Pozo is east of Santa Margarita Ca. in San Luis Obispo Co.


Thought I would include a couple of
more elk and hawk shots and show
how we finish a trail hike .
Photographed here are Jim Bartlett and Myself --- Joe .
Keep Hiking

Pozo Eagles , Elk and Hawks

11-10-10
Hiking again the Pozo area
located approximately 30 miles east of Santa Margarita Ca. This time I had a real camera with me and not a point and shoot that I used to photograph the elk posting last week . I deleted those of last week . I hope that you will enjoy these a lot more . Remember to double click on the image and it will enlarge a little .
The last photo is of a bull coming out of a drainage .The photo at the top is a Golden Eagle . The bird landing in the tree is a Red Tail Hawk . The bird in flight is an Eagle also.
This day I was blessed to have shot more than 150 images . To bad I cant share all !
If you have any questions e-mail me at joeramirez@charter.
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A special thanks to Jim Bartlett , my photo assistant , as he is very enthusiastic and has a sharp eye !