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| All the fisher people (and Hops' hiney!) |
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| Jawbone Creek |
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| Lunch - before the rain hit. |
We met Jim's family - Cousins Gary, Rudy, Karen and Lisa - up near Cherry for opening day of stream fishing for trout. We have been planning this for months and were really looking forward to it! We fished with them a couple years ago and really enjoyed it. Cousin Gary has been fishing that area his whole life and teaches us all kinds of things when we get together.
We made a plan to meet at 9 am near Crane Creek. We were making great time until we came upon a giant boulder in the middle of the road! It actually only slowed us down long enough to take a pic.
What really slowed us down was the snow! Up near Cherry there was 6 to 8 inches on the ground and when we got to Crane Creek there was about 8 to 10 inches.
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| Ahi got some good digging time in! |
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| Weener in the backpack! |
We were so excited to see snow! We met up with the cousins and made a plan. We fished the lower Crane while the "older folks" fished upper Crane. Since the snow was so deep, Ahi couldn't walk in it so we put her in a backpack and carried her (see pic). I can't believe she just calmly rides in a backpack for an hour of hiking.
Hops was so fired up to be in the snow for the first time. She ran around like crazy! And Daisy - at 11 and a half - kept up with us the whole time and was so happy. (However, she was pooped out that evening.)
While fishing at Crane, we had rain, sleet and snow. But NO fish! Not even a bite. The folks on upper Crane caught a few.
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| Note all three dogs in this pic! |
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| A man and his Labrador |
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| Grace - 15 1/2 years old |
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| My two girlies in the snow. |
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| Parked at Jawbone Creek |
After Crane Creek we drove about 3 miles over to Jawbone Creek. It is slightly lower in elevation so there was almost no snow. Here we had quite a bit of rain. Everyone else fished while Grace and I took the dogs and hiked thru some of the area totally devastated by the Rim fire. Ahi liked it here better because she could hike.
After fishing we sat down and had some lunch. About halfway thru lunch it started pouring! Luckily we had packed the easy up so we stayed fairly dry.
It was our first adventure with the new Tahoe and boy did it get dirty - both inside and out. Ahi got a wild hair and ran all over it with muddy feet. And the two labs were sopping wet from playing in the snow. It is quite stinky already.
No fish all day but lots of great adventures!
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| Jawbone Creek area |
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| A boulder blocking the road. |
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| Hops' first time in the snow. |
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| Daisy Mae looking out the window as we start driving into the snow! |
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