HAPPY EASTER!!

The Easter Bunny had better wear his rain slicker!  Scattered showers today and tomorrow and into Monday!  April showers bring May flowers, but in the high country the snow will have to melt FIRST!  We still have hills of snow where it slides off the metal roof of the cabins in the Resort.  ROADS ARE CLEAR though, so a SPRING drive to the nearby mountains is a possibility.  The road to Beardsley Reservoir is open.  The gate on 108 has been moved to Eagle Meadows Road and I saw the CalTrans snowblower being taken up 108 to start on the annual clearing of the highway above the closure point!!  

CalTrans usually TRIES to get the hiway opened to Kennedy Meadows by the opening of fishing season, but that is a week from today!?   It will depend on the amount of debris on the roadway, especially on the grade between the Vista Point and the Clark Fork turnoff!  Land slides slow them down; land slides don't go through the blower without creating damage!!  Those CalTrans guys really worked hard this winter and all of us appreciate their efforts.


I still have a problem with the fence on the new bridge railings over the So Fork of the Stanislaus; the rails are ugly when visible and are effectively a snow fence in the winter.  One local saw a mother hoisting her toddler up on the snow so that he "could see the river" not aware that there was only a railing under that snow - a railing which a toddler could easily fall through!!

I have a BIGGER problem since the inspector told me that they were retrofitting ALL the bridges over rivers in the State with these "bicyclist protection" railings!  Wouldn't a couple of signs saying "bicyclists walk your bikes across the bridge" be cheaper and about as efficient without creating the illusion of safety when covered in snow!!?


The WORLD has gone insane and the STATE of California is a leader in the epidemic!


MARANATHA!!