Sat, 30 Dec 2006
Merja and I decided to get away for a quick overnight “mid-week weekend” trip. With all the activity and stress of the holidays we needed a break. So she found a room in the Riverside hotel in the little gold town of Downiville.Downiville is about an hour and a half drive from us. The road follows the Yuba River which is one of the best fishing rivers in the area. I can’t wait for fly fishing season !
Downiville is another one of the tiny gold towns that’s survived to the present day. The population on the highway sign says 335 and that feels about right.
Here’s about half of Downiville.
And here’s the other half
The next 2 pictures are the view from our hotel room.
Those of you who are anglers will want to know if there are fish in that river ;) Yep, we got a few.
Yesterday morning we had breakfast with Mike, the owner of the hotel, and decided to do a loop through the Sierras that would take us up to Truckee and then through Donner pass back to our house.
We only had to gain about 1000 feet in elevation to hit the snow.
So of course we had to pull over to get up close and personal with the snow. This is my sweetie.
I just love the look of the woods in winter.
The Yuba River was looking pretty darn cold.
It looks like I’m having a happy day.
As we came over Yuba Pass at 6500 feet we could see this beautiful flat valley below us.
I thought it was odd to find such a large flat valley in the middle of the Sierra mountains.
When we were driving through the valley it felt more like the plains of Montana.
Truckee and Donner pass were just a city and a highway compared to the trip we just
did so I ended up not taking any photos of that part.
But my gosh we had a great time. It was good to spend some time together and just be a couple again.
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