Do you receive the Smoke Signals, MAHA's quarterly newsletter and community update? On page 18 in the May (current) issue, in the Mi Wuk blog article, I requested photos from a different vantage point than the routes I usually drive in the village. Terri McKinsey was kind enough to send me some great photos and a little get-acquainted paragraph:
I have been coming up to the area with my family since 1962 and camping first at Pinecrest and then at Clark Fork. My Uncle Bill introduced the family to Clark Fork in 1963 when Pinecrest (camp ground) was full. It has become an annual Family Reunion for us ever since. We have added and lost members of the family, but we still go. Uncle Bill introduced us to the mountains we LOVE. When my husband and I were looking to buy a vacation home, we found one in Cold Springs. We had that house for 10 years, purchase in 1990. Because of the snow and STEEP driveway, we decided to move down the hill. My husband said, "Our next house needs to pass 'The Soda Can Test". I asked what that was. He said, "You lay a soda can on its side in the driveway and if it does not roll down the hill - THAT is the house for us." :-) We found the perfect house in MiWuk. We bought in 1999 and have loved it ever since. (Editor's note: our driveway would not not not pass that soda can test. You could have soda can races instead!)
Here are some photos from their home:
Their shed, pre-storm of March:
Their shed, post-storm:
The shed, after the snow melted, about 2 weeks later.
Remember the berms?
Thanks to Terri and her husband for their great photos.
If you have any photos you'd like to share on the blog, just send them to me at blythek@mac.com.
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Also, someone at the Community Center/Library is putting together a scrapbook of the historical storm of 2011. If you have hard copy photos, please send them to
MAHA
PO Box 46
MI WUK VILLAGE, CA 95346
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