My son sent me some various older photos taken when he and his brother were hiking. This is the Lassen area - east of where I live. Looks like summer - with the sweltering 100+ heat in the valley.
So, I hope this finds you all well. We're having a storm here today (and yesterday) We're getting some strong winds and bouts of heavy rain - Shasta Dam has reported they will be releasing water tomorrow - Sacramento River is very high, so we're expecting some flooding in the valley.
I'm more in the foothills. We're good. Char lives on the Sacramento River but is high on a bluff, so she's good. Navy lives far enough away from the river, it shouldn't be an issue plus he has canals that are part of the flood control that will help. Foodie's is fine at his place.
Mostly it will mean flooding to the lower areas, by the river.
This looks like the Lassen National Park - This is covered in deep snow right now. Usually, Lassen is closed till after Memorial Day, due to the snowpack.
The advantage of being old is that I can remember back - the young people who are wringing their hands in horror - this is how it was back when I was a kid. This being our second year of a healthy rainy season, I'm hoping we are making the turn back to the kind of rainy seasons we used to have. After all, that is what everybody wanted...but it seems they are all so up in arms over it - preaching fear and destruction. I'd rather have rain than drought.
They have short memories - I've even heard some of them say, they are sick of the rain. I better shut my trap before I say more.
The mountains and meadows around Mt Lassen. I'm thinking this must have been before the fires a few years back.
Oh what a beautiful Spring, we have to look forward to.
Besides being able to see Mt Shasta every day from my neighborhood, I can also look east and see Mt Lassen in the distance.
The east side of the mountain which always reminds me of the high desert. California is blessed with many different topographies. The whole east side of the Sierras is this way and is my preferred way to get to Yosemite - drive in from the backside. That way, you skip all the big Central Valley cities and traffic.
This must have been in the spring - I really like the sky.
My son says he is starting to plan his next backpacking trip - he's thinking about the Lost Coast - a mostly undeveloped area of coastline, in Humboldt County and Mendocino County. The steepness and related geotechnical challenges of the coastal mountains made this stretch of coastline too costly for state highway or county road builders to establish routes through the area, leaving it the most undeveloped and remote portion of the California coast. It's not like you can drive there... It is a backpacker's paradise - remote and difficult so you don't have these weekend warriors out and about.
It looks like the rain has stopped and so has the wind - I take that back. The wind was taking a breather, I guess because it is back.
Take care -
Debby
