Entries by John Poimiroo

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What Matters Most

So what if: It’s your daughter’s wedding. You have 50-yard-line tickets to the big game. Your big retirement dinner happens Saturday and everyone will be there. After flirting for months, you finally got asked out by the hot barista at the coffee shop. The Nobel Prize committee just called and would like to meet you […]

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Meadow Valley Morn

  Mornings are golden in Meadow Valley, Plumas County color spotter Michael Beatley reports. Michael shot pictures  along Big Creek Rd,  just west of Meadow Valley in Plumas County.  It is the lower road to Bucks Lake. Turn Left at the split in the road where the sign reads, “Bucks Lake via Big Creek Rd for […]

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Mount Up and Ride

“Mount up and ride,” encourages Bishop Area color spotter Gigi de Jong who describes the Lower Rock Creek Trail (at the top of Round Valley, north of Bishop — First Report) as the gold standard for mountain biking in the Eastern Sierra. “This trail earns ‘gold’ for its superior ride, and fall is its ‘golden […]

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A Place With Alps

What place has alps, cowboys, an untamed river and empty roads that wind through the yellow-splashed wild? Jeri Rangel found the answer as she drove California highway 3, with not a car or truck ahead or behind. She knew that those that are, pull over to let you pass. That is, if you’re in a […]

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Lost Hope – So, Blue

Color spotter Crys Black visited the Hope Valley on Sunday, but arrived at the tail end of its peak. Disappointed with the color, she “decided to go off the beaten path to see if we’d get lucky. We drove down to the Sunset Lakes where we found a little peak color and around Upper Blue […]

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Lovely, Rain or Shine

Kathleen DiGregorio says Big Bear Lake is lovely, rain or shine. A rainy Saturday drive took DiGregorio to Blue Jay (First Report), Big Bear Lake and Snow Summit, where she found color mixed, estimating two to three weeks more color, depending on weather. We’re not as optimistic, rating Big Bear native color as now Near […]

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Over The Top

On a whim, this past weekend, color spotter Gene Miller crossed the Sierra Nevada to the East Side and found “over the top” color. Gene is a midwest transplant who misses autumn there, though has  “come to appreciate the Fall Colors … here.” He said that getting there, was fraught with stops along the Tioga […]

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Ordered To Appear

You are hereby ordered to appear at the Plumas County Courthouse in Quincy to attest that trees surrounding the court are Near Peak. Now that you have been duly served, what can you expect to see? Towering maple, plane trees and elm, anytime from now through this weekend and the following week, depending on conditions. […]