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Survived the night back at work, although I wasn't able to sleep much yesterday afternoon. On the way home three Sunnyvale cop cars were together arresting one 40-ish guy with what looked like a Safeway cart.
So, have some more photos from our vacation. Here's an overlook on the highway, I think just after the Yuba Pass (for some reason it's not marked on any of the maps or mentioned in guides):
And here's part of the view from there down to the Sierra Valley.
This is one of three branches of the Yuba River, which has cut a very deep canyon.
Apparently this part of its course has an unusually mixed forest, not just the various kinds of conifers.
Sometimes there are rapids:
Sometimes it's relatively placid:
(That waterfall is right behind where we were staying.)
But there are always lots of rocks, including islands that are submerged in floods. Apparently some of this is mine tailings, and riverside fields the Indians used to till have been submerged, and the rock washed down the river has worsened its tendency to flood. So now there are dams further down. But looking at the canyon, I think it always did flood, just not so high.
So, have some more photos from our vacation. Here's an overlook on the highway, I think just after the Yuba Pass (for some reason it's not marked on any of the maps or mentioned in guides):
And here's part of the view from there down to the Sierra Valley.
This is one of three branches of the Yuba River, which has cut a very deep canyon.
Apparently this part of its course has an unusually mixed forest, not just the various kinds of conifers.
Sometimes there are rapids:
Sometimes it's relatively placid:
(That waterfall is right behind where we were staying.)
But there are always lots of rocks, including islands that are submerged in floods. Apparently some of this is mine tailings, and riverside fields the Indians used to till have been submerged, and the rock washed down the river has worsened its tendency to flood. So now there are dams further down. But looking at the canyon, I think it always did flood, just not so high.