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Columbia Night
We took the urge to see the first touch of fall in the Sierra, a drive back to Columbia. It’s fall, time to pay homage to our sweet old charmer. When we arrived, most tourists are already gone, just locals. Follow the only noise in town, several kids were running and screaming on their race…
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Chinese Camp
We’ve been to Chinese Camp before, years ago. It was just a highway historical marker we saw after hours of driving from Yosemite, or some point further west, felt disappointed. Couple of days ago I saw the name, got re-ignited and decided to come back. We know the road, arrived earlier than last time, the…
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Grinding Rock in the Sierra
We went to Indian Grinding Rock State Park, ancestral grounds of Central Sierra Miwok and where the largest grinding rock in North America lies. Chaw’se, is the Miwok word for “grinding rock”. The “grinding rock” is marbleized limestone with 1,185 mortar holes, which is the largest collection of bedrock mortars anywhere in North America. The Miwok used the…