Re-entry

After nearly 2 years and more than 500 miles G and I are back where we belong, the lovely SF bay area. We have found a place to live, G has a job for the fall and I am busy job hunting. I’ll catch one of them suckers one of these days. Till then I’ll knit and spin to my hearts content (when I’m not surfing craigslist) and hopefully finish washing my long neglected fleece.

We went on an amazing camping trip as G’s belated birthday present (we trade trips for b-day presents)

First we drove up to Shasta and spent the night camping at Castle Crags campground next to a really nice stretch of the Sacramento river. Followed by a trip to the trout hatchery (so many tiny fishies, and some big ones too!) . The next morning we visited Hedge Creek falls an easy hike off the highway.

Then up towards Oregon and the Klamath river which we followed for a while with stops for dips in the water. A night in Yreka and then back to Dunsmuir where we walked next to the railroad for 2.4 miles round trip to the Mossbrae waterfall worth all the trouble to get there and all the conductors we encountered were very pleasant.

From there we headed out to Burney Falls stopping at 2 other waterfalls in the national forests along highway 89. Burney fall were very impressive and Briton lake very refreshing. All in all a lovely trip – except for the fires which made some parts of it pretty sketchy but I’m needing to focus on good stuff so lets not dwell on that. Below is Mt Shasta, then Burney followed by the upper and lower McCloud river falls in the National Forest.

More on fibery pursuits soon!

Coming up: Dyeing yarn for G’s sweater, using the viking combs and pictures of our new place!