Hello everyone,
My name is Ryan and this is my blog.  I enjoy everything about the outdoors and this blog will definitely be a strong reflection on that, and the many activities that get me out there (hiking, backpacking, fishing...).  I am relatively young, 24, and still plan on doing/seeing much of what this amazing planet has to offer me.  Since there is so much right here in my "backyard," I do however feel a certain urge to spend most of my time here seeing what I have always wondered about. So, most of what you read here will be about Southern California, mainly the Santa Monica Mountains and Los Padres National Forest, but occasionally other hobbies take me to the coast and the inland lakes and reservoirs around the area.  Hopefully I don't bore you too much, otherwise you shouldn't be reading this, it is a free country. Anyway, enough of that, here are some of the things that I enjoy so much about being outside...