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| Loon Lake/Vallejo |
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| The (un) usual suspects. Joe, Barry and Kevin
at Loon Lake Campground (Jay from the back) |
| It rained the two days I was at Loon, luckily
not at night when I slept out on a cot. It had rained lightly Sunday
night when I was at Icehouse but I just threw a tarp over the cot.
Monday it rained hard enough to have streams running through camp. Joe
and Jay's tent leaked. |
| Mare Island |
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| Lower Napa River (Mare Island
Strait) towards the Carquinez Strait. |
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| Mare Island Gold Course is closed. It once had a disputed
claim as the oldest course on the west coast. |
Got caught by the causeway bridge being up for channel
traffic. |
| Last time I went to Loon Lake was two years
ago when we evicted because of a forest fire that started around Pollock
Pines and burned all the way into the Tahoe Basin. (The
Caldor Fire) This year I decided to make an 1150 mile loop up
US395, down 80 to the Bay Area and back over 120 to US 395 and my side
of the mountains. A friends wife had died since I was last in Vallejo
and I wanted to stop and offer my condolences. |
| Yosemite |
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| Clouds Rest and Half Dome from Olmstead Point |
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| The only section of 120 still being worked on. East of
Olmstead Point with one way traffic. |
Lower part of Lee Vining Canyon |
| Having a senior pass makes the 120 route
through Yosemite National Park over Tioga Pass free for me so I prefer
it to Sonora Pass. I much prefer one of these options to the west side
of the Sierra down Interstate 5 or highway 99. I drove from Vallejo to
my property at Kennedy Meadows in a day. On the way north I had driven
from Kennedy Meadows to Strawberry Point Campground at Icehouse
Reservoir on the first day and a short distance to Loon Lake the second.
I spent two nights at Loon then two nights in Vallejo. |
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