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Another day, another mountain by Barbara Edwards

Mt Rainier is somewhere ahead.

The road winds past blueberry farms, cattle and horses, lumber piles.

Lots of sawn logs and mills. Moss covers the tree trunks and house roofs.

Maybe we’ll see the sun, in bits and pieces, today.

The forest is thick and lush.

The trees tower overhead.

The higher we drive on the Park, the more snow we see until we reach Paradise.

It’s piled ten feet deep and started to snow as we stop in the parking area. There’s no electric power because of the utility repairs.

We’re in the clouds and can’t see Mt Rainier.

Maybe we’ll see it from the highway tomorrow.

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Yosemite in the rain and snow by Barbara Edwards

I had to remind myself that Yosemite wasn’t the object of our trip, but a bonus.

It’s raining this morning and 42 degrees.

With snow predicted for tonight we have a debate about leaving. We talked to the volunteers at th ranger station and they claim it will be above 6 thousand fee, and the camp-ground is four.

Bill says let’s try the roads. He doesn’t mind driving in the rain. So. We head out for Bridal-veil Falls first and the

Wamona tunnel first. We’re half-way to Yosemite Valley and it is snowing. What to do?

We visited Bridal-veil Falls, walked to the base in the rain, Yosemite Village with its odd traffic pattern,

El Capitain and looked up into the rain to see the top, Yosemite Falls from the road turn-off and turned up Route 120.

Oops. Big mistake. We got turned back by the Park Rangers because we needed chains to get through the building snow. Taking 140 West to exit the park.

Lassen Volcanic National Park by Barbara Edwards

I hope you forgive me for jumping around. With the internet a strange and unusual unreliable, I’m hopping to today. I’ll jump back I promise.

Lassen Volcanic National Park is forty miles from the campground.

Not too far to drive, so here we go.

It gets colder as we travel the narrow winding road up over five thousand feet into the snow-clad forest. Aspen, Ponderosa Pine, and Redwoods crowd the road.