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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. Photographs pop up to help identify plants and animals. 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
 
Photo above by Scott Hein
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Mitchell Canyon: Episode 6

Feb 26, 2021

MINING   In the 1860s, men who had been "bit by the mining tarantula" searched for copper on the north side of MOUNT DIABLO.  Learn what they took and what they left behind in this installment of our MITCHELL CANYON guide, presented by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association, in partnership with Save Mount...

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Mitchell Canyon: Episode 5

Feb 19, 2021

Meet a COAST LIVE OAK  that sprouted around the time the U.S. constitution was signed in 1787. Then learn about the park's kissing MISTLETOE and nuisance TURKEYS.

It's the latest installment of the MITCHELL CANYON tour, presented by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. First...

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Mitchell Canyon: Episode 4

Feb 5, 2021

TWO "OAKS"   1) Blue oaks are clever trees, uniquely adapted to California's dry summers. 2) Poison oak (not an oak at all) is the state's most common shrub. We all get one free exposure, and then the trouble begins . . . 

Part of a series about an easy stroll along a creek on Mount Diablo’s lush north side, led by...

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