R Scott Jones

One of my all time fav hikes in the NPS

With dear friends @rsjon.es and @kristamuscarella.bsky.social and Jen and Lupe at the game tonight at beautiful Dodger Stadium.

Aug 10 OTD for #Blaugust2025: More Scotland, more Rim, Seattle: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/10/aug-otd-for-blaugust-more/

Visited the Nixon Presidential Library (and birthplace home, and gravesite) today for my A Site for Each President quest. While I technically finished that quest today, I have an asterisk for Madison’s Montpelier that I need to revisit so I’m sorta keeping it open for now. #Blaugust2025

Aug 8 OTD for #Blaugust: a castle, Presidential aircraft, and a fire tower: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/08/aug-otd-for-blaugust-a/

Aug 7 OTD for #Blaugust: train rides, cool pines, and riding corn.: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/07/aug-otd-for-blaugust-train/

We booked a ridiculous trip last night: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/07/we-booked-a-ridiculous-trip/

Aug 6 OTD for Blaugust: Henges, Bears, and Blue Balls: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/06/aug-otd-for-blaugust-henges/

Aug 5 OTD for #Blaugust: London & Pat Tillman

I’m having a blast looking back at “On This Day” photos for each day for #Blaugust2025. Here’s the last five:

Aug 5: London & Pat Tillman
Aug 4: London, Redwoods, Devils Highway
Aug 3: London, Oregon, Alaska, ASU football
Aug 2: Oregon, Alaska, Arizona
Aug 1: Alaska wildfire story

Just updated the Treasured Places quest list, which now includes 495 of America’s best protected public lands: every national park unit, national monument, and national conservation area in the country.

Aug 5 OTD for #Blaugust: London & Pat Tillman: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/05/163947/

Aug 4 OTD for #Blaugust: London, Redwoods, Devils Highway: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/05/aug-otd-for-blaugust-london/

OTD Aug 3 for #Blaugust2025: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/03/otd-aug-for-blaugust/

Featuring the British Museum, unexpected nipple tickles, a football stadium tour, walking to an Alaskan glacier, and a couple nice sunsets.

OTD August 2 for #Blaugust2025: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/02/200418/

OTD August 1 for #Blaugust2025: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/02/otd-august-for-blaugust/

Made it over to our local brewery, but relegated to an NA beer, at least for now. It’s good to be out of the house though.

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Tule Lake National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Tule Lake National Monument includes both Tule Lake Segregation Center, the largest and most controversial of the sites where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, and Camp Tulelak...

Might want to check out nearby Tule Lake Segregation Center while you’re in the area.

www.nps.gov/tule/index.htm

#Blaugust2025: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/01/blaugust/

Hope you brought your pfd

I’m in the market for a document scanner for MacOS, probably something along the lines of a Fujitsu ScanSnap (loved mine back in the day). Does anyone have a recommendation for me?

Micro.blog - @getkirby@mastodon.social

Big thanks to @getkirby@mastodon.social for donating a free Kirby CMS license for a good cause project I’m working on. Such a cool platform for building a website!

433 NPS sites in every state, bring in over $55 billion to the economy – $16 times every $ the govt. invests in them. Cutting the #NPS hurts the local economy – the opposite of a “government efficiency!”

#parkchat #protectourparks
#economy #nature #nationalparks

www.anpr.org/release/2025...

Such a great spot! ⛺️

Just look at this ridiculous font choice in an old Falcon Guide in my library. Somebody not only designed it this way, but somehow also got it approved and actually printed. Oy.

The Long Pause - and a New Chapter It’s been a minute. Or, rather 335,440 minutes. The last time I updated this blog was in November 2024 – ironically, to recap 2021 ....

It’s been too long since I’ve seen a blog post from Krista Muscarella, so noticing this tucked away in an RSS folder was a nice treat this morning. Bummed we missed out on this weekend’s Sac trip, but at least we’ll catch her in LA in a couple weekends instead.

The Long Pause - and a New Chapter

“Not in the spirit of twineballing…” 🧶🤪

(I ran across this dispatch from July 2021 this morning) https://rsjon.es/2025/07/23/not-in-the-spirit-of/

Micro.blog - @drdirtbag@mountains.social

I’m a sucker for photo-heavy trip reports, and if you are too, then you’ll love @drdirtbag@mountains.social’s recent peakbagging adventure in the high Sierra.

DC day 1: Approach and Rambaud
DC day 2: Devils Crags 10-5 and 3, White Top
DC da... https://rsjon.es/2025/07/20/im-a-sucker-for-photoheavy/

→ Most People Don’t Know How Bikes Work

I don’t recall hearing about this at the time, but this was a fun watch.

→ He secretly changed this freeway sign, helped millions of drivers