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North Fork of the American River: Letter to Tahoe National Forest
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Thursday, June 19, 2008. Letter to Tahoe National Forest. June 19, 2008. Nevada City, CA 95959. Re: Lost Camp Road. Dear Supervisor Quinn,. Just north of the large patented claim in Section 23, in Section 14, a series of small parcels exist. The owners of these parcels have blocked the historic road with a gate. I wish Tahoe National Forest to meet its responsibilities and act quickly to re-...
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North Fork of the American River: Smarts Crossing
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Sunday, July 6, 2008. The number of historic public trails and roads which have been closed. To the public here in Placer County has grown too long to tell, at. Least, in the course of such a count, it degenerates into a repetitive. Whine: The Sky is Falling, and what's more, Life is Unfair. Smarts Crossing is one of these historic public roads. A wagon road. Through which the old road passe...
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North Fork of the American River: January 2008
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Tuesday, January 22, 2008. The Secret Trails of Green Valley. Never mind that I have often written about precisely these ditches and trails before. The Nefarious People, she writes, will tie plastic flagging all along the ditches, all along the trails, spray-painting a boulder now and then for good measure, with artful messages like "Green Valley Blue Gravel Mine Ditch, .25.". So merely upon...
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North Fork of the American River: November 2007
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Thursday, November 29, 2007. Lost Camp, etc. Ron Gould has put up a web page about the road/trail closure at Lost Camp, see. Http:/ www.northforktrails.com/lostcamproad/. There is all kinds of interesting stuff there. Thanks, Ron! At any rate, for more information check out Ron's Lost Camp web page. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Russell Towle's YouTube Movies. Russell Towle's Geometry Blog.
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North Fork of the American River: The Last Post
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Tuesday, August 12, 2008. We have to share some difficult news. On Thursday evening, August 7, 2008, Russell Towle, author of this blog, died after a tragic car accident. On Interstate 80 near Sacramento. Russell Towle Tribute Weekend. Dutch Flat, California, October 11-12, 2008. More information, and some photos of Russell are here. We are all SO blessed to have shared life with him, but no...
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North Fork of the American River: December 2007
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Land Acquisition, Green Valley. The Sierra Sun reports:. Two conservation groups have purchased 94 acres of land along the upper reaches of the American River’s north fork. Placer Land Trust Executive Director Jeff Darlington accepted $50,000 from the United Auburn Indian Community for the Giant Gap project. 8220;The North Fork American River Canyon, and particula...
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North Fork of the American River: The North Fork Fire
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Monday, July 28, 2008. The North Fork Fire. Above: Looking south from Big Valley Bluff to Tadpole Canyon. Photo by Ron Gould. Apparently Forest Road 19 had been used as a firebreak, and "backfires" had been set on the canyon side of the road. From. Bulldozer scars I had seen miles away on Sawtooth Ridge and Humbug Ridge, I feared what I would find along the road to Big Valley Bluff. Howe...
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North Fork of the American River: After the Inferno: The Iowa Hill Canal
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Saturday, August 2, 2008. After the Inferno: The Iowa Hill Canal. Above: Iowa Hill Canal Trail in grey, Foresthill Road, blue, parking, red. Above: the Chinese Road. Early Friday morning I drove to Jerry Rein's remarkable solar home,. We would visit the uppermost Iowa Hill Canal. We parked amid more or less dense second-growth coniferous forest,. Strong a term. One should not too-quickly...
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North Fork of the American River: August 2008
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Tuesday, August 12, 2008. We have to share some difficult news. On Thursday evening, August 7, 2008, Russell Towle, author of this blog, died after a tragic car accident. On Interstate 80 near Sacramento. Russell Towle Tribute Weekend. Dutch Flat, California, October 11-12, 2008. More information, and some photos of Russell are here. We are all SO blessed to have shared life with him, but no...
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North Fork of the American River: September 2007
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North Fork of the American River. Accounts of explorations in the Great American Canyon, Placer County's Yosemite. Monday, September 17, 2007. A Maze of Gorges. Written September 17, 2007]. We had admired that narrow promontory from a distance. Wild, remote, cliff-bound, it would offer a most intimate view of what we call the Gorge of Many Gorges. It also looked to be well-guarded by brush. We could not be certain that some monstrous brush-field would stop us altogether. One could only try. Then it only ...
