Alder Creek Slide Photo

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• Holy moly - we got out of there just in time. Had a group come out from Kirkcreek in the morning after backbacking. Thank goodness.

• Only one comment tells me we are all stunned. It seems to be just one after another, and my sense of humor is getting sorely tested. Get comfortable in King City, this one is going to be a while. I have photos coming tomorrow that were taken from up top.

• Well, the school is out for Spring Break, so I take a break from "Over the Nacimiento", day after day...and head to the mountains of Idaho. That said, I leave you for now with this poem (it is sung to a bluegrass-style chord pattern, with several "yeehaw's thrown in):
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  OVER THE DONNER

  when the rain
  and the wind
  did turn into snow
  and it’s up the Donner
  I must go …

  But the high ridge
  dragon’s -breath
  blizzard did blow,
  as it stood between me
  and Idaho

  With the grindin’ of the ice
  beneath the wheel
  I forget to remember
  just exactly
  what I feel

  Through the silent
  sleet blade
  as sharp as steel
  was the barrier with
  which I had to deal

  But my sweetheart’s rig’s
  good to carry me through
  and the road
  in my headlights
  points straight to you

  (refrain:)
  The wind and the snow,
  The wind and the snow
  The wind and the snow
  It did blow!

  The wind and the snow
  The wind and the snow
  And it’s up the Donner
  I did go.
  (yee-hah)