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| Sutter Creek |
Yesterday was going to be a wonderfully warm fall day so we decided to take a drive up into the mountains. We headed south on highway 49...well darn, right past the coffee house that make scrumptious chocolate croissants, we split one. We detoured through Sutter Creek, it has been decades since we've been through there and it looked really nice, we kept going to Jackson where we jumped onto highway 88 and headed east up into the Sierras. It was smoky everywhere and as we got into the mountains we discovered that different areas were having controlled burns and burning slash piles. We got out at Silver Lake to take pictures and I got down to the shore in time to see a guy bring in a fish. We took 89 north east of Kirkwood Ski area and it was just a short jump to interstate 50 at South Lake Tahoe where we headed west. We decided to take Ice House road and we had lunch at the Ice House Resort...lucky for us, it was their last day open of the season and we split a double burger. Ice House road to Wentworth Springs road into Georgetown and then 193 back home to Cool. It was a 240 mile circle through the foothills to the high granite Sierras and back...just a stupendous day. Today we got right out and took our morning hike before breakfast...we did 3.75 miles today and there wasn't any breeze today so we were able to keep the house open...a gorgeous day and weird for Halloween where traditionally the weather is cold, rainy, snowy, windy,...wicked witch weather.
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| Sutter Creek |
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| gigantic heart boulder, Larry said if I got it in the car we could take it home |
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| Silver Lake and tree growing out of the granite |
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| Larry & Silver Lake |
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| Kirkwood Ski Resort |
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| Caples Lake |
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| There is a waterfall up on the left third of the picture...hard to see unless enlarged |
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| This series of falls was on Ice House road |
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