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Saturday, August 13. 2011

A taste of the California Sierra, yesterday

I am still up in the mountains, with marginal communications with civilization and rare internet service. A party line phone, and no cell service. I do have a rocking chair on the porch.


Posted by Gwynnie at 05:07 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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The first two words to enter my mind when I saw the pic were "ski wax!" While I know it's strictly verbotten to say anything nice about California here on Maggie's Farm (and I'd probably lose my blogging privileges if I said this in an actual post), CA has some of the best skiing in the world because it's so dry. Fall down anywhere else and you end up a sodden mess. Fall down in the Sierras, stand up, brush off the 'snow dust' and keep on truckin'.

One of the proudest days of my youth was the day I first tackled KT-22 -- and survived.
#1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2011-08-13 06:51 (Reply)
Nice. Know the area. Further you go inland in CA the more rational people get (except for a few pockets of insanity like the state capitol building). Great rural counties and good people up north, and northeast.
#2 BorderPundit on 2011-08-13 07:05 (Reply)
My Significant Other has an elderly cousin that has a Summer house in the general area of Donner summit. I am told the area looks very much like that.
#3 feeblemind on 2011-08-13 09:15 (Reply)
The sad part about California is that in spite of such natural beauty, natural resources, and good climate, its politics are so messed up. When I hitched cross country to California when I was 18, I was lounging in some park in LA when an elderly woman came up to me and told me ,"This is God's country," a statement I fervently agreed with at the time.

During that trip I went on a hike in the Sierras with my aunt, cousin, and their friends. God's country, indeed.

But all areas have their own beauty, at least until homo sapiens gets there.
#4 Gringo on 2011-08-13 13:28 (Reply)

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