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Thursday, August 8. 2013

11 miles

It's 11 miles up this "road" to our family camp of several generations. A short summer there in the Sierra, inaccessible for most of the year due to snowfall.


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Posted by Gwynnie in Travelogues and Travel Ideas at 05:23 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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"11 miles up this road" raises the question, what's ibeyond the boonies? As for it being inaccessible in the winter, there's always helicopters. And parachute drops. All in all, a beautifully rugged and picturesque area.

It's also an interesting question how some dyed-in-the-wool Yankee family ended up with a slice of mountain 3,000 miles away. Spin us the tale sometime.
    #1 Dr. Mercury on 2013-08-08 06:40 (Reply)
    That's a great tease. More pictures and background please.
    #2 Charles Curran on 2013-08-08 08:52 (Reply)
    I'm turning green with envy.
    #3 NJSoldier on 2013-08-08 10:54 (Reply)
    Very pretty country. Is this in the general area of Truckee?
    #4 feeblemind on 2013-08-08 11:50 (Reply)
    Like most of the roads in my boyhood in the Sierras. I can smell the pines and the dust of the red dirt even now.
    #5 vanderleun on 2013-08-08 12:21 (Reply)
    Is this a new old idea or what; haven't we already beaten this to death? It appears to be grasping at straws.
    Given our economic state, I don't have that much of a problem with infrastructure projects if they serve a real need, if they will boost efficiency and American competitiveness, if they are not just to create make work feather-bedding jobs, if they won't be obsolete before they are done, and if they don't just benefit the few. For example: Interstate Highway System or During the Depression there was an effort to replant the great plains to contain the Dustbowl and preserve our most valuable asset of all, top soil. That and the effort to retrain farmers in soil conservation benefits us all, even today.
    In short I don't expect investing in infrastructure is going to juice the economy although it is better than paying unemployment for nothing and better than letting the infrastructure go all to hell so that we are even more noncompetitive. Basically we are talking maintenance here, not breaking new ground, not a new virgin industry ready to take off and pull the rest of us along.
    #6 Exasperated on 2013-08-08 22:05 (Reply)

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