**LOCATION WILL BE SENT 2 DAYS BEFORE THE EVENT
This hike is adapted for Los Angeles from a night program I used to teach kids in Yosemite National Park! Think of it like the sleep away summer camp program you wish you'd been able to do as a kid.
NEW 2025:
- A must better telescope to get a close up view (and phone pic) of the full moon and any planets that might be visible!
- A bat detector to "hear" and identify the ultrasonic sounds they make for echolocation! As long as it's warm enough, because bats hybernate in colder weather.
We'll explore our local environment as the landscape shifts from day to sunset to night, learning about the ways in which both flora and fauna shift along with it. Walking along one of the LA River's best bat, night heron, and goose rookery habitats, we'll also explore the ways in which our own eyes adjust (or don't) to darkness.
And of course, we'll learn about the LA River itself, it's past, present, and hopeful future. Including ways you can advocate to repair and rejuvinate nature in our urban ecosystem.
We will avoid using headlamps or any other light source as much as possible, but the full moon plus bike path lighting along the river will easily illuminate our path.
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Jason Wise (aka @jasonjourneyman) is a certified California naturalist, outdoor environmental educator, a native plant daddy, and prolific tree hugger with a Master's in Environmental Policy. He teaches about native and invasive plants, connected ecosystems, the ecological history of California, and how we can all leave it better. Let's grow community together from nature.
