Looked out my kitchen window and saw this. Hoping it’s not close and it’s not harming people! #FireSeason
@NorCalCherylLyn Where are you ?
@BFBucky1 outside Sacramento in the Sierra foothills.
@NorCalCherylLyn Beautiful area as is most of California.
@BFBucky1 we love it
@NorCalCherylLyn I can imagine. I have made many trips there and enjoyed the times there. I love Yosemite the most.
@BFBucky1 Yosemite is magnificent! I grew up on the eastern side of the Sierras from Yosemite. Totally different landscapes but amazing!
@NorCalCherylLyn There is so much.
@BFBucky1 you could go from the ocean to the highest spot in the lower States then to the lowest spot in the country in 2-3 days if you were ambitious.
I wonder if the southernmost glacier is still there…likely not. 🤔
@NorCalCherylLyn The glaciers are melting but I have been to Death Valley. I spent alot of time over in the Panamint Valley. I stayed in Ridgecrest most of the time. That was when I learned that cars had governors that limited the speed to 110 mph.
@BFBucky1 Death Valley is such a crazy place! My Grandfather mined in the Panamint Mtns for years. Good terrain for testing your car’s limits!
@NorCalCherylLyn I worked on a project at a gold mine near Ballarat. It was or is a big operation. It was a long drive from ridge crest but it was mostly long straight road with no telephone poles.
@BFBucky1 granddad was a powder money all over ID, NV and CA.
My Aunt’s birthplace is a ghost town now. Gma considered the new house fancy if it didn’t have dirt floors. Mining is a hard way to make a living!
This is Gdad a somewhere in the Death Valley area.
@NorCalCherylLyn I was going back thru post. I am curious did you Gdad find gold?
@BFBucky1 when he was working in big mines for someone. Not so much when on his own.
Family settled in Lone Pine and he mined things like gypsum, cinnabar and talc until arthritis ended his ability to in the 60s.