The Three Shastas

Shasta Dam, Lake Shasta, Mt. Shasta

Near a geocache named "Keeper of the Stars 7-3"

Shasta Lake and Mt. Shasta

On the way to a geocache called Fishermudi.

The Old and The New

Saturday, January 21, 2006. A mid-morning cache hunt took us to this site in the upper Sacramento River Canyon. On the right is an old bridge for Highway 99. On the upper left is the fairly new bridge for Interstate-5.

Mom and #3 Son, on his birthday, 2005

Nola with Chris on his Birthday in July, 2005. He is three years old (if I tell the truth and say he is 30 years old you might think I'm old or that I married a child bride).

Mom and #2 Son, Mike

Mike and Nola at Thanksgiving, 2005.

Rock Walls - South Eastern Shasta County

These rock walls are on the way to Black Butte (center, background-not to be confused with the Black Butte at Mt.Shasta). They appear to be recently constructed (not Chinese walls such as those found in Butte County) and were very uniform in size. Who built them is a mystery to me at this time but I'll be asking around for info.

The first of a four cache day

This morning, Nola and I made a loop starting in Redding and going up to Shingletown, to Manton, to Red Bluff and then home. This totem pole was at a Geocache called "Lil Marah". The totem was built by a fellow named John Welsh and is retired from the U.S. Forest Service - I knew him when I was working for the USFS - have not seen him for several years. We then wandered down to Manton on the back roads, having an enjoyable drive through the country side. We saw some of the fire damage at Manton due to last fall's "Manton Fire". However, since the rain things are getting green and looking O.K. We concluded our little drive by going to Red Bluff and then up I-5, back to Redding. We found four geocaches today. I'm having too much fun! When we got home and got lunch out of the way, I took down the outside Christmas lights and helped Nola put the Christmas stuff back up in the garage attic. Getting myself prepared to watch USC & Texas do battle in the Rose Bowl.

More Geocaching Fun

More Flood Pictures

Our normal route home is flooded along the Russian River - the gate is visible in the background.

Floods Along the Russian River

This picture was taken along the access road to the Odd Fellows Recreation Club, 5 miles north of Guerneville, CA, on the Russian River, Decemeber 31, 2005. Electricity went out at 7:00 P.M. with predictions of staying off for a week or more. By the morning, January 1, 2006, the river had risen approximately 3 more feet and it was raining very hard. We (my wife, her sister and brother-in-law) decide to vacate the premises and barely made it out of the park over the unsurfaced evacuation route. Many local roads were closed with downed power lines and or tree limbs. As we drove home we were stopped on our way to Middletown and had to return to Highway 101 (15 mile detour) and go north to Highway 20 and across the north side of Clear Lake to Interstate 5 and the north to our home at Redding. We got home at dark-thirty, driving all day in heavy rains.

A great bridge on old historic Highway 99, along the Sacramento River between Redding and Mt. Shasta, CA.