By Ed Berg Solitary hikes with the family dogs are a source of relief from the anger, intolerance and antagonistic noise of this extraordinary election year in the U.S.A. I recently discovered a gulch north of town that is too steep and boulder-choked for a bike trail or even a foot path … not even a deer trail. I was clambering up it at that magical moment when the sun gets just high enough to pour into the gulch and backlight the foliage with brilliant halos. (I avoid using the word “coronas.”) So it was especially dismaying to find ...
