The front that came through a couple days ago broke my banner flag pole in half so I got a new one up today. I needed to change the theme anyway.....Cattle Dog holiday to Cattle Dog MAGA...... :p

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Cool!
A new rumba broomba!!

Ladies, Gentlemen and such, I present Rich Lambert
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May I also present, the amazing SteveO
Attempting to hide behind the tree, look closely.
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Short break in the rain means go outside

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^Wow Leakyseals, you are a lot braver than I^

When it gets that cold I leave my 2 wheelers in a nice warm garage and break out X-country skis, snowshoes and 4 wheel drive.

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HA! The first road looks to have plenty of traction-well- at least over to the right!
The second- Not so much! :)

Most of my ride was pretty uneventful. In Va, (for the most part) we have to blow snow to make anything slippery- I tried to upload some pics but interweb slow tonight.

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Sunny and cold, time to head up to my favorite playground where the North Cascades highway is closed for winter. I was amazed at how little snow there is... this time of year normally would have at least a couple feet in this area.
Should have brought my kayak!
Minimal wind, no people or other boats up here this time of year.

It was so amazingly silent you cold hear the noise Ravens make with their wings as they flew past. Also heard a rock slide pound its way down a nearby mountain side.

Mighty nice I tell ya!

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Baker or Ross Lake?

My wife and I are headed that way to look for land for a summer place.

I promise I'll be a good neighbor.:cool:

My Daughter early in her horse phase, she is a very accomplished rider. They either get it or they don't.

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90% sure it's Ross.

Would love to get together, host you for dinner, (have you move in...) if you get out this way!

Skip, I always love your pictures. And the drone work is amazing!
Do you have any before and after shots of how the Twin Rivers/Haller park has changed? The entire party beach on the east of where the rivers join is gone.

Nashville BBQ last weekend.
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I'm in!

I fell in love with the eastern part of Washington...looking at Plain and other more rural areas in the Cascades.

Where do farmers come from:

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Thanks!
These shots are Diablo lake and dam, construction started in 1927 finished in 1930.

I took a few of the old incline railway and control shack that was built into solid rock.
It's now defunct and has not been used since 9-11.
A lot of access was shut down after that tragedy on the other side of our country.

It hauled loaded rail cars broadside up Sourdough mountain a total of 600' distance and 338' in elevation carrying concrete, materials and people to build Diablo Dam.
It's still very impressive 93 years later.
At some point they will need to lower the counterweight to town level... if those cables break it's going to leave on heck of a divot down by the old station.

Ross has no direct road access with the exception of a 30 mile dirt road from Hope, Canada to the North end of the lake.

Another drone shot of Diablo Dam.

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Incline railway control shack circa 1927. My buddy SteveO is trying to shade his lens, not dive off...
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Down toward "town" (not much of it left)
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Control cables and dogs to lock the platform
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The tallest dam on the planet when it was finished in 1930.
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Oh Dam.
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It amazes me at times what was built back in the '30's with the technology available at the time.

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Dam amazing efforts- Ross was built in 3 stages, supposed to have had a 4th but Canada would have been impacted by the flooding raising the dam would create... bureaucratic hooha got the last stage stopped.
I believe BC is still paying some sort of stipend for the "favor" of us not flooding more of their territory.
I'm thankful the project has stopped, it would have drown many many sites that I have fond memories of.

Do you have any before and after shots of how the Twin Rivers/Haller park has changed?
No I don't, I may find an opportunity for some after shots though.

East side Ross spillway, you can see the checkerboard surface left for the 4th phase build to grab onto.
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My son and his 2011 adventure crew looking at the 500' drop off the dam edge with the Ross Power house thrumming in the near distance and Colonial, Pyramid peaks and Paul Bunyan's stump in the deep distance.
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A fore mentioned RPH & mountain gruppe
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