View from South Boquet Mountain. (Photo: Dennis Aprill)

[Originaly published in the Press Republican on May 2, 2010.]

We had a large turnout for the January animal-tracking hike at Poke-O-Moonshine’s Lost Oak Valley. This hike is a continuation of winter tracking hikes organized by Friends of Poke-O-Moonshine and Keeping Track that began several years ago. Usually, the January hike has temperatures below zero, but last Saturday the temperatures were quite warm, making for a very comfortable and enjoyable day outdoors.