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> John Fereira wrote:
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>> HoofPrints
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>>> John Fereira wrote:
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>>>> HoofPrints
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>>>>> John Fereira wrote:
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>>>>>>> Lamey, Teh, AUK, Guy wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On Fri, 18 May 2007 09:41:16 -0700, HoofPrints
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>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.
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>> Ya know that park in the central square in Sonoma?
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> 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.
I have actually only been there a couple of times. I was born in small town
on the coast northwest of Sonoma but mostly lived in the bay area until I
moved east about 12 years ago.
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>> 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'm actually not remembering the statue correctly. It doesn't show all of
the men in the "Bear Flag Revolt" but I'm a descendant of one of them (Henry
Beeson). The flag was first raised in that central square though.
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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> It would be a really hard ride for a bicycle even if you had a racing
> bike. It is steep.
The eastern slope of Sonora pass is the steepest paved road I've ever been
on.
> The road is off of 198 way north of Three Rivers.
I used to go backpacking once a year for about 8 years on the South fork of
the Kaweah river. The turn off was just before Three Rivers (coming from
Visalia). It turned to a dirt road for about five miles and then entered
Sequoia National park and ended at a trailhead. There was a huge Sequoia
tree about 100' from where we would always camp.
> 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'm pretty sure you've got 180 right. I've been up there near Lodgepole.
>
>>
>>> 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.
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> 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.
The Stanislaus runs near Sonora pass (hwy 108). Sonora is a neat town but I
like the area east of Dodge Ridge (the ski resort) around Emigrant
Wilderness better.
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>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
I didn't go as far south as Merced (although I have). I was talking about
hwy 120. It runs from near Manteca up into the park. There is a gate
across the road about 30 miles past the entrance to the park after it splits
to go down into Yosemite Valley or over the pass through Toulumne Meadows.
We were parked near the gate for about 3 hours before it opened. It was
actually supposed to open a day earlier but there was still some snow to
clear off the roads.
