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Photoblogging: A Snow-Covered Mountain for a Hot Summer Day

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While combing through my photo database during this unusually-hot-even-for-July heatwave that's been baking southern California, I was drawn to this winter photo taken in January in Palm Springs. A rotating, hanging cable car took some friends and I two and a half miles above the desert floor to a snowy, forested mountaintop. One of the things I love about living in Los Angeles is that you can begin the day a few blocks from the Santa Monica Bay, and end it on top of a snow-covered mountain.

Jason G. Goldman is a science journalist based in Los Angeles. He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere. He contributes to Scientific American's "60-Second Science" podcast, and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He enjoys sharing his wildlife knowledge on television and on the radio, and often speaks to the public about wildlife and science communication.

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