John Fereira wrote:
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> HoofPrints
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>> John Fereira wrote:
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>>> HoofPrints
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>>> news:46559E99.13BB8D1E@hotmail.com:
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>>>> John Fereira wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> HoofPrints
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>>>>> news:464F178F.585BE44@hotmail.com:
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>>>>>> Lamey, Teh, AUK, Guy wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 18 May 2007 09:41:16 -0700, HoofPrints
>>>>>>>
hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BTW blu and others unknown to me.
>>>>>>>>Any of you care to submit a handwriting sample written on steno
>>>>>>>>pad paper with all the words.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>" I don't know why everyone thought this looked like me,
>>>>>>>>But there is nothing fat about me or any other stupid sick
>>>>>>>>comment, or
>>>>>>>> talk going or coming around.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Sorry they were all out of witch broom cards
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Maybe I'll stop by for a chat about it on my way East."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>This is the same message that was sent to my home from one of
>>>>>>>>the sAUKkers Bunny Boilers, last Oct. 2006.
>>>>>>>>Care to fess up and write to prove your innocence, anyone??
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fess up and prove innocence?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *blink*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am pointing the finger at everyone, that is true. It is the
>>>>>> American Way.
>>>>>> Your guilty until proven innocent. [sic]
>>>>>> Especially in Usenet's Kangaroo Ct.
>>>>>> I can be just like them, in fact, did you know that anyone who
>>>>>> lives near yosemite conspires to off tourists?
>>>>>>
>>>>> I have been to Yosemite Valley enough times to form the opinion
>>>>> that in many cases such a practice would be justified.
>>>>
>>>> I am so disgusted with the way Yosemite looks in the millennium
>>>> compared to what it used to be in the late 60's.
>>>
>>> I've actually only been into Yosemite valley a few times. I prefer
>>> the northeast portion of the park much more and even areas east of the
>>> eastern border (i.e. 20 Lakes Basin, near Saddlebag lake).
>>>
>>>> In the winter we used to ditch school and drive up to yosemite. Now
>>>> it is full of half burnt redwoods reaching to the sky.
>>>
>>> Part of that is because redwoods become more resistant to fire as they
>>> get older. That's one of the reasons Sequoia redwoods live for
>>> hundreds, even thousands of years. I also have spent a considerable
>>> amount of time in Sequoia National Park, especially in the southern
>>> most portion, and basically grew up amongst the redwoods as I was born
>>> in a small town along the north coast not far from Redwood National
>>> Park.
>>
>> Muir woods is also nice. When I lived in Sonoma, Sonoma Co. we used to
>> go to jack London Park. I thought that Yosemite had them beat, but was
>> comparing them to Yosemite the late 60's.
>
> Ya know that park in the central square in Sonoma?
Ya mean where the Ct. Used to be? Yeah, and every Fourth of July there
was a parade. I lived there in 74-78. Went back for a visit to the
Mission, and oh my how things have changed, and not for the better.
> There's a famous statue
> in the park of a group of men raising the first Bear flag. I'm a descendant
> of one of the men depicted in the statue.
I don't remember that statue. Used to take my daughter to the swings
tho' across from the Cheese Factory.
The deceased lucked out when the Ct. house burned, or didn't luck out.
I forget which/ he had a warrant out for failure to appear and we were
in Orange County, there was no way to prove that the warrant had been
taken care of.
>>
>> We used to drive the back way into Sequoia Park. What a ride that is.
>> Steep with lots of turns.
>
> I've never taken that road but I've gone over Monitor pass, Sonora pass (the
> most impressive, IMHO), Ebbetts pass, and Tioga pass. I've heard that
> there is a bicycle race that goes over all of those pass.
It would be a really hard ride for a bicycle even if you had a racing
bike. It is steep.
The road is off of 198 way north of Three Rivers.
Another way into the park is to take 63 [?} to 180 {?] past Squaw Valley
and into the park. Squaw Valley isn't the ski resort up north.
>
>> I was just down that way a week or so ago, and am heading that way in a
>> couple of days on business.
>
> In the fall I am going on business trips to Rome, IT, and Livingstone,
> Zambia.
I have no desire to travel overseas. I did when I was younger but I
wanted to go to the Mediterranean and any island.
>
>> I also like the Tule River. We used to head up that way to what the
>> locals called Peace Hole. Huge diving rocks. I have a photo of one
>> huge boulder that looks like a brain with a stem, then a deep pool.
>
> There's a popular spot like that near Hell's Half Acre on the Stanislaus.
> I was going to mention an ill-fated fishing trip upstream from that spot but
> I'm going to save it in case blu has any ideas about hijacking my laptop
> while I'm in Denver.
I don't think I have been on the Stanislaus. The Yuba is a nice place
especially off the back porch of the Washington Hotel. Past the bridge
north of that town, there is a bridge and a nice place to cool off.
The American near Placerville is ok too. Lots of gold and miners with
claims.
>
>>
>>>
>>>> I guess I should
>>>> add that I really wish they would ease up on the way we fight fires
>>>> in our national parks and go back to using chemicals instead of
>>>> relying on bags of water to put them out.
>>>> Everyone is concerned about the rain forest being turned into a
>>>> parking lot, yet the Sierras are like our rain forests and yeah
>>>> trees help with the green house effect. Putting the fires out would
>>>> do a lot to save the trees, and also stop the air pollution created
>>>> by letting them burn out on their own.
>>>
>>> I know what you mean. I went up that way with a friend many years ago
>>> for a multiday, multi-destination camping/flyfishing trip on the
>>> eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. We came back over through Tioga
>>> pass and was planning on camping out for a couple of days near Buck
>>> Meadows. We ended up having to drive quite a ways west before we
>>> could find an area that wasn't burning.
>>
>>
>> That is one drive I have never gone on. During the winter it is closed.
>>
> It usually opens this weekend (Memorial weekend). I went over the pass one
> year on the day it opened. In fact, we had to sit along the road for a few
> hours before the gate opened. We were about the 10th car in line heading
> east. It was really spectacular with all the rivers and streams full of
> snow melt. About 60 miles after going through the gate at the western
> entrance we came around a corner and saw oncoming traffic for the first time
> in over an hour.
Did yo catch it out of Merced? If so they are having a problem with
that entrance into Yosemite.
The road caved in a couple of years ago, and the locals are struggling
because the tourists trade has been cut off. That is the way out of
Yosemite used to drive back on during our ditch years. i had a nice
corduroy jacket my boyfriend lifted from some sports car to keep me
warm.
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