Just back from Emigrant Gap Labor Day weekend. As usual we had a great time. Shelia and Clay came up Saturday and Sunday. We took a short walk (hike) on the nature trail at the Bear River and finally got to see the falls there. The falls are not anywhere near as tall as our North Fork, but still nice to see. We did a bit of car touring at Rucker Lake. As usual, the lake was calm and beautiful.
Sunday Clay and Shelia took a trip to Truckee (shopping and lunch), then headed home. It was so great to have them finally visit and we hope they will do so often!
Pattie, Mom, Mary Beth, Katie and John came up on Saturday and Jim on Sunday. It was also John's first visit to the lodge. He brought us a coleman emergency light (which will come in very handy this winter).
Pattie, Katie, John, Jim and I did the hike on the back side of Lake Valley Reservoir on Sunday (somehow we lost the trail and mostly hiked at the water's edge). We were lucky to see one of the nesting bald eagles during the hike. It was perched in one of the cedar trees by the shore and looked to be a yearling. We also stumbled across what appeared to be an old steam donkey (steam donkeys were used as a way to move large timber through the forest). They would cable the logs and pull them using the steam monkey gears. This one still had its cables and large round gears. Would love to have those gears for the lodge - but alas - they are not for sale. We also got to walk through Sky Mountain Summer Camp (great camp with lots of outbuildings on the shore of the lake) and the Lodgepole Campground.
Monday morning we woke to rain, thunder and lightning. Wow! nature can put on a great show in the Sierras. It rained almost all of Monday - but we get a brief break in the weather and were able to take Pattie over to see Emerald Pools (on the Yuba River) - our new favorite swimming hole.
No swimming Labor Day weekend as the sierras are moving into fall (can't wait to see the Aspen trees in fall color). The American Fire was probably extinguished by the deluge of rain and we are all praying that the storm moved south to the Yosemite Rim fire.
The lodge is great in fall. Firewood cutting in September, Bonfires in October and snow (we hope) by November. Also hiking goes into full force at this time, and of course shopping the thrift stores in Reno. We hope our family and friends will be able to come up, take a break and see us.
When we arrived home, we found that we had received an email from one of the descendants of the Allen Family (Allens owned the hotel around the turn of the century). He is the grandson of one of the Allen girls. He sent us some pictures of the old hotel (great!). I hope to be corresponding with him (and of course Eleanor - descendant of the Cortopassi family) in the future.
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