There has been one storm after another recently hitting the Sierras. This has shut down a lot of the possibilities as far as things to do. Skiing has been bad due to the lack of decent snow and the high winds. The rain and wind has limited the places to go hiking and biking. Debra and I were pretty bored on Monday afternoon so we decided to go drive and explore around the Sweetwater Mountains north of Bridgeport, California. With not much of anything better to do we grabbed our camera and headed off down 395 to the turnoff for Smith Valley. As we went over the Sweetwater Pass and dropped down into Bridgeport Valley we stopped for a few minutes at Bridgeport Reservoir on the Walker River. The reservoir was partially covered in ice and surrounded by a thin layer of snow. I thought the Sierra's looked pretty incredible as yet another storm was beginning to roar in behind them. We took these pictures just as the sun was beginning to set. The wind was roaring, the temperatures were freezing, and the lake was empty of any life but us.
2 comments:
Cool. Rain. It poured so hard last night I thought we were having a hurricane. We got over 1 inch of rain in 5 hours!! You should come up here and visit. You'll probably have a million places to drive to around here.
Heard you guys are getting some nice flooding. Last year huge snow falls. This year flooding. Gosh, im glad i dont live in such a crazy climate part of the country!! :)
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