Leanne Grossman’s Nature Guiding
The height and stature of the old growth in Big Basin Redwoods State Park astound you as soon as you arrive. When my friend and I began hiking recently, we heard various rustling sounds every few steps. We looked around expecting to find some hungry squirrels racing through the leaves eating nuts off the trees…
Mount Umunhum (pronounced “Um-un-um”) invokes the sound of humming and means hummingbird. It combines the root words for hummingbird in five Ohlone languages. Valentin Lopez, Chair of the Amah-Mutsun Ohlone tribal band tells the original creation story of Ohlone peoples, “How Hummingbird Got Fire.” https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2011/07/19/web-extra-how-hummingbird-got-fire/ For some 10,000 years Ohlone and other tribes tended the…
In nature I find peace, renewal and truth. Ever since I was a child I have loved being in forests and along streams. I feel blessed to be able to spend more time in nature now and share my knowledge and background with people of all ages. Read More…