Hello from Northern California

[Big Ugly]

Hi, BlueNote,
Really sad to hear the the Northern end has gone that way.
I used to live in Etna, down the Scott Valley from Yreka and Fort Jones.
It was such a beautiful are back then (very early '70s) and Callahan was quite a trip!
Then, in about 5 minutes, you could walk out of town into near virgin forest.
Oh, Well, so it goes.
Come back to the High, Wide, and Lonesome, and help save what we still have here.

[Bluenote]

Hi, BlueNote,
Really sad to hear the the Northern end has gone that way.
I used to live in Etna, down the Scott Valley from Yreka and Fort Jones.
It was such a beautiful are back then (very early '70s) and Callahan was quite a trip!
Then, in about 5 minutes, you could walk out of town into near virgin forest.
Oh, Well, so it goes.
Come back to the High, Wide, and Lonesome, and help save what we still have here.

 
 
  It's still beautiful , but it's changed. Remember Hayfork? Half the damn speed labs in the north end of the state are in Hayfork now , it's truly become the posterior orifice of Trinity county.
   
 
  Hwy 3 is still one of my favorite rides ,along with 36 of course and 96 ,299 has so many airheads and so mcu traffic that it's only useful as way of getting to the good roads.
 
   Can't walk out into that virgin forest anymore ,too much chance of running across some growing for profit type that would just use you for fertiliser. I don't see why they don't jusy legalise it , maybe we could just sell off all the helicopters ,Suburbans ,Broncos etc. and put the money back into the school system or open a few libraries back up. But if they did that then they couldn't ask for appropiations for all those nice toys and the feds would have no reason to be running around the backcountry.
 
   As it is the population is now caught between stormtrooper antics on one side and the criminal behavior on the other side. It's a very sad situation.
 
   And I'll preface this next by stating *NO I am not racist* , however La Mecha and the various other La Raza type groups ARE taking over certain areas of the state in an accelerating way.
 
  Sad very sad........
 
 
 
  B.

[biathlon]

Modoc is northern, Sonoma is more central. Do you guys ski?

[Bluenote]

Modoc is northern, Sonoma is more central. Do you guys ski?

 
 
  Not a single place either he or I mentioned is in Sonoma County , and Modoc county is the far northeastern county in the state , there's a lotta ground between Sonoma and Modoc , and a lotta ground between Modoc county and my locale.
 
  And nobody in their right mind wants to live in Sonoma county now anyway , it's where all the yuppie wine snobs for whom Napa county wasn't hip and trendy enough went to.
 
   And nope personally I don't ski if I can get out of it , if I want individual transport upon snow I'll get out my snowshoes , easier to manage a pack ,a rifle and twenty spare traps on snowshoes that on cross country skis.
 
 
  B.

[MichaelNotMike]

Follow-up (my last post on this thread was written while just visiting here.)

My wife and I moved to Casper, have been living here five months, and we LOVE LIVING IN WYOMING! YAY! WOOT HOOT!

It's seriously the best decision we've ever made, in every way.

--Michael