Goat Trails: Essays Exploring the Great Northern California Outdoors
Goat Trails is a long-running series of outdoors columns by writer and poet Ryan Masters that takes the reader from the summits of Big Sur to the cold lunar reef below Mavericks and into some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most intriguing and little-known historical and literary landmarks. Check back often for new essays.
Save Del Puerto Canyon!
August 13, 2020
The Horrors of the Summit Tunnel
December 8, 2014
Pomponio’s Cave
September 30, 2019
Ascending Pimkolam with Maria Ocarpia
June 21,2020
Don’t Know Anything: Seven Days of Ventana Zen
April 15, 2015
Jade Cove and the Conscious Unconscious
January 12, 2015
Lost and Found: Sea to Summit on Big Sur’s Cone Peak
December 25, 2014
Toxic Treasure: Quicksilver and ‘The Legend of New Almaden’
January 25, 2015
Finding Frank Norris in the Santa Cruz Mountains
February 22, 2017
Rain Sorcery: A Wyrd Hike with California Newts
November 26, 2014
Summer Solstice at a California Stonehenge
June 21, 2015
What Lies Beneath: Bodysurfing in the Key of Heavy
April 15, 2016
The Many Veils of Pinto Lake
April 30, 2015
Everything A River Is Supposed to Be
August 18, 2015
No Left Turn Unstoned in La Honda
February 23, 2015
At Home on Sierra Azul’s Priest Rock Trail
February 5, 2015
Robert Louis Stevenson’s California
December 17, 2014
The Mass Grave of Santa Cruz
December 16, 2016
Pine Valley: Suspending Time in the Ventana Wilderness
August 4, 2004
Ghost Tree Lives: One Epic Day in the Life of Pebble Beach’s Legendary Big Wave
March 9, 2005
The Time Travelers of Fort Hunter Liggett
July 6, 2006
Pico Blanco: Bushwhacking Big Sur’s Sacred Peak
March 30, 2015