Probably the best hiking site for the Los Angeles area is This Hiking Trail. It's the site where I first discovered my favorite hike. I just recently discovered the trailhead to a hike very close to where I live. It's a moderate distance at 7.8 miles, but is fairly strenuous at over 2000 feet in elevation from start to highest point. The point of all this is to show the usefulness of the site. It lists several dozen area hikes, links to other hiking sites, and (actually useful) comments from other hikers.

I don't have any intention of turning this into a sports related blog. But I do pay a lot of attention to some popular American sports. I regularly visit ESPN and some other blogs to keep up with what's going on. And, so, I may occasionally mention sports on this blog. With that said I am predicting that the Saints win the Super Bowl (more because I'd like to see them win and less because I think they will actually win). I have no score prediction but it seems likely that the score will be pretty high.