Audible Mount Diablo

Audible Mount Diablo is an invitation to adventure. Its free multimedia tours combine lively interviews and music with the rush of wind and the chirps, howls, and growls of wildlife. Naturalists heighten visitors’ appreciation of the sights and sounds at each stop, tell tales of the mountain’s past, and suggest what to look for around the next bend. Perfect to prepare for your first--or your hundredth--trip up the mountain. Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association Produced by Audio Guides to the Outdoors

A Hiker's Guide to Mount Diablo Plants: Episode 4 09/14/2023

A Hiker's Guide to Mount Diablo Plants: Episode 4 TREES Lessons learned from Mount Diablo's oaks, pines, bays, and buckeyes. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/8848310

A Hiker's Guide to Mount Diablo Plants: Episode 3 09/01/2023

A Hiker's Guide to Mount Diablo Plants: Episode 3 The 2013 Morgan Fire swept across 3,000 acres and yielded new knowledge about life on the East Bay's highest peak. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/8848241

A Hiker's Guide to Mount Diablo Plants: Episode 2 08/25/2023

A Hiker's Guide to Mount Diablo Plants: Episode 2 A HIKER'S GUIDE TO MOUNT DIABLO PLANTS Why is this 3,849-foot peak so central to California's cultural and natural history? Find out on a hike near the summit. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/8520017

A HIker's Guide to Mount Diablo Plants 08/18/2023

A HIker's Guide to Mount Diablo Plants A HIKER'S GUIDE TO MOUNT DIABLO PLANTS. Enjoy 5 fascinating hikes led by rare-plant expert Heath Bartosh. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/8519192

Winding Down Lime Ridge Looking for Wildlife 08/11/2023

Winding Down Lime Ridge Looking for Wildlife As you wind your way through the lovely hills of Lime Ridge, keep an eye out for wildlife. In this episode Seth Adams and Scott Hein discuss 1) one that's still common all over the area 2) an introduced species whose numbers have exploded and 3) a native species that's making a heartening comeback. Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. First published in 2012. Photos by Scott Hein. Music by Phil Heywood. We regret an error in this version: what is labeled "mule deer" is actually a Columbian black-tailed deer. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/26535933

Summer Scents: Big Tarplant 08/04/2023

Summer Scents: Big Tarplant Learn about a rare plant that waits until summer to grace the hills of Lime Ridge Open Space on the eastern edge of Walnut Creek, California. Featuring Heath Bartosh. Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Photos courtesy of Scott Hein and Heath Bartosh. First published in 2012. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/26535900

Wild Mount Diablo PINES 07/14/2023

Wild Mount Diablo PINES Can you name three pine species that grow in Mount Diablo State Park? Learn to ID them by their pinecones (2 supersized, 1 clingy). Hear about how they're adapted to fire and drought. Meet the gun-toting botanists who collected their cones in the 1830s. A Mount Diablo Interpretive Association video featuring Ken Lavin and Seth Adams. Production by Joan Hamilton. Music by Music Revolution. Photos by Joan Hamilton, Neal Kramer, Kendall Oei, and courtesy of Strybing Arboretum. Adapted from Audible Mount Diablo's Curry Point, Mitchell Canyon, and Falls Trail guides sponsored by Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and Save Mount Diablo. Special thanks to Wild Mount Diablo team members Wally De Young, Anastasia Hobbet, and Kendall Oei. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/27438912

Falls Trail 13: A Fine June Walk 06/23/2023

Falls Trail 13: A Fine June Walk Learn about Mount Diablo's Wasserman Trail and some of the wild and not-so-wild life you might see along the way. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11425436

Falls Trail 12: Chert 06/16/2023

Falls Trail 12: Chert Check out a Mount Diablo rock formed from what Rachel Carson called "the long snowfall of the sea." /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11425424

Falls Trail 11: Remarkable Rocks 06/09/2023

Falls Trail 11: Remarkable Rocks About halfway into this classic Mount Diablo hike, we get our first good look at the waterfalls of Wild Oat Canyon and the well-traveled rock that hosts the show: pillow basalt. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11425415

Falls Trail 10: Leather Oak 06/02/2023

Falls Trail 10: Leather Oak High in heavy metals and low in nutrients, serpentine soil is difficult for most plants. But it's rich in unusual species—like scrawny Quercus durata: leather oak. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11425394

Falls Trail 9: Oracle Oak 05/26/2023

Falls Trail 9: Oracle Oak Meet Mount Diablo's rarest oak, and the feminist who first named it for science: Albert Kellogg. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11425370

Falls Trail 5: Tales of Donner Cabin 05/19/2023

Falls Trail 5: Tales of Donner Cabin History sleuths: Wander around an old cabin site in Mount Diablo State Park to find clues about how people used and misused this land in the 20th century. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11425244

Falls Trail 4: The Great Fire of 1977 05/12/2023

Falls Trail 4: The Great Fire of 1977 Happy Thanksgiving! Now that the rains have come, it may be easier to think about fire in our wildlands. Here's a first-person account of the Great Fire of 1977 from former Mount Diablo State Park ranger Burt Bogardus. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11425196

Falls Trail 3: George Cardinet 05/04/2023

Falls Trail 3: George Cardinet Meet "the grandfather of national trails," an enterprising equestrian who built more than 200 miles of trails in the East Bay area. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11425151

Wild Mount Diablo: Peregrines 2022 04/28/2023

Wild Mount Diablo: Peregrines 2022 Pine Canyon's peregrine falcons had a difficult season in 2021, when all four chicks were killed by a great-horned owl in a territorial dispute. Follow a team of California naturalists, stewards, and detectives as they tell the story of how the fastest animal on the planet fared last season. A Mount Diablo Interpretive Association video, produced by Wally De Young. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/26678730

Hiking the Falls Trail, part two 04/22/2023

Hiking the Falls Trail, part two To start our hike, we head up Donner Canyon, named for the family that lived here in the late 1800s. Learn about a sad incident that touched their lives as we stroll streamside among blue, valley, and coast live oaks. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11423795

Finally, Water! 04/14/2023

Finally, Water! Awaiting the rainy season? A good time to ponder the history, geology, plants, and animals to be found along one of Mount Diablo's classic hikes, the FALLS TRAIL. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/11066066

Where the Grass is Greener 04/07/2023

Where the Grass is Greener From the top of Lime Ridge, you can see Mount Diablo—and a surprisingly vast expanse of GRASSLAND in between. Learn about who owns these lands and some of the wild treasures they contain, including relicts of a drier climate such as desert olives and sagebrush lizards. From a tour of Lime Ridge featuring Seth Adams and Scott Hein, originally published by Save Mount Diablo in 2012. See Save Mount Diablo's website for information about current activities at MANGINI RANCH. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/26469240

Early Bloomers 03/31/2023

Early Bloomers In recent wintery months, our early-blooming flowers have brought beauty to the forested understory of Mount Diablo State Park. Here are a few that pop up January through March. A Mount Diablo Interpretive Association film, produced in partnership with Save Mount Diablo, by Kendall Oei. Part of the Wild Mount Diablo series. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/26409618

Our Friend the Fence Lizard 03/24/2023

Our Friend the Fence Lizard How a colorful reptile may help lower the incidence of Lyme disease in California. Episode 6.1 in Save Mount Diablo's guide to Lime Ridge, featuring Scott Hein and Seth Adams. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/26321616

Life on LIME RIDGE 03/16/2023

Life on LIME RIDGE In episode 6 of our Lime Ridge Tour, we take an inside look at Bay Area shrublands, also known as CHAPARRAL. They may look lifeless at times, but they nurture a rich assemblage of plants and animals, including Alameda whipsnakes, hummingbirds, and blue-gray gnatcatchers. Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo in partnership with Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Featuring Seth Adams and Scott Hein. Music by Phil Heywood. Production by Joan Hamilton. First published in 2012. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/26253033

The Ongoing Age of Discovery 03/03/2023

The Ongoing Age of Discovery After a winter of abundant rain and even snow, WILDFLOWERS are waking up in the East Bay. As you get out to enjoy them, keep in mind that there are still discoveries to be made. In 2008, for example, Carpenter David Gowen found two phlox species new to science in LIME RIDGE OPEN SPACE, nearly surrounded by Walnut Creek and Concord. It's one more example of how important it is to protect and respect our open spaces! From a 2012 Audible Mount Diablo guide to Lime Ridge sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and Thomas J. Long Foundation. Featuring SMD's Land Conservation Director, Seth Adams. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/26110737

Mount Diablo Delights 02/24/2023

Mount Diablo Delights THE PARK TODAY In our final episode celebrating Mount Diablo State Park's 100th year, we chat with supervising ranger Cameron Morrison about how the park has changed—and different ways people can enjoy it today. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/20555795

Wild Mount Diablo: LADYBUGS 02/17/2023

Wild Mount Diablo: LADYBUGS Mount Diablo hosts large congregations of ladybugs in winter. Perhaps you've seen them? Masses of writhing, reddish-orange beetles in a shady canyon? It can be an arresting, even creepy, sight. Which is all part of their clever survival plan. A Mount Diablo Interpretive Association video featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Images by Arnold Joe, Scott Hein, and Kendall Oei. Music by Daniel Kaede. Produced by Joan Hamilton. Adapted from "Mitchell Canyon" Audible Mount Diablo, 2017. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/25954638

Mount Diablo's Depression-Era Infrastructure 02/10/2023

Mount Diablo's Depression-Era Infrastructure CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/20555633

Wild Mount Diablo: Wonders of 2022 02/03/2023

Wild Mount Diablo: Wonders of 2022 Here are a few of the sights we savored on Mount Diablo in 2022. May your 2023 be filled with new delights! Happy New Year from the Wild Mount Diablo team. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/25812957

A Brief History of Mount Diablo State Park 01/27/2023

A Brief History of Mount Diablo State Park A PARK IS BORN Mount Diablo State Park had two dedication ceremonies: the first with well-behaved officials in 1921, and the second with an inebriated governor in 1931, when "the mountain lived up to its name." /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/20294471

Mount Diablo's First Tourists 01/20/2023

Mount Diablo's First Tourists EARLY TOURISM Starting in the 1870s, people with dollar signs in their eyes started selling the Mount Diablo to investors and tourists. First was Joseph Seavey Hall, who built a hotel and two toll roads. Then came Robert Noble Burgess, who planned to build a castle on top with William Randolph Hearst! How did that work out? Find out in episode 3. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/20294423

When Cattle First Came to California 01/13/2023

When Cattle First Came to California In the late 1700s, when the Spanish came north along the coast of California, they brought food with them in the shape of CATTLE. That was the beginning of a slow, but revolutionary change in the state's ecology. This is EPISODE 2 in an 8-part "Brief History of Mount Diablo State Park," featuring Ken Lavin, Seth Adams, Robert Doyle, Michael Marchiano, Vincent Medina, and Cameron Morrison. Presented by Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo and Mount Diablo State Park. Photography and video by Kendall Oei, Scott Hein, and Wally de Young, among others. Music by Phil Heywood. Production by Joan Hamilton. /episode/index/show/audiblemountdiablo/id/25591716

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