Well Kelly, sometimes you just don't know how far to go into the deep snow....
But here it is Bill.
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Well hello there Mr. Bill! Monsoon season coming early this year?
I remember once leaving out of Death Valley at 120+ degrees going up into and around the Panamint Range to look at Charlie Masons Ranch, which was covered in snow. He was already in jail, and the dude I was with was doing a story on his life for a Phoenix paper, I was just the curious guide dog. 3 days latter we returned to the valley and found that it was raining, really raining, raining so much and apparently so long that the Valley as far as we could see was under water. Though I was driving a Baja Blazer, the water was high enough to flow across the floor boards and we had to return to the foot hills until the water subsided. The next morning the water was down enough to hop from dry spot to dry spot, and we made it over to Stovepipe to get some fuel, sleep and grub. (dancing with desert women) The next day we panned for gold and watch flowers actually sprout from the ground across the desert floor, amazing, so you may have something to smile about in a little while. Although Jane and I have since return to the Valley, we’ve never seen it rain.
Ok, enough of the Mohave, on to the Sonora.......
When I was hanging out at the Superstitions, east Phoenix valley, at the foot of the Snake River Canyon, Apache Junction, I found a very interesting situation. When it rained really hard the water would not only race down the Supers, but down the Goldfield Mts. as well, right into the east valley. The rain would come off the mountains so fast that with my own eyes saw it swipe a tractor trailer right off the road. Deserts are dangerous places to live, I would move to Truckee if I were you.
Now some folks say that I was tripping, but on one of my earlier excursion up the rolling hills of eastern slope in northern California, during torrential rains, I watch a mud slide, the whole side of a hill came down on the road, on top of the heavy equipment that was already there trying to remove an earlier slide. (operators running every which way)What’s so Trippy about that? There were cows on that sliding (approximately 200 square yards) patch of grass.
The best way I’ve found to deal with the relentless rain is to rap yourself in NorthFace Gortex, get a bottle of Tequila take a big swig, look ol Jose Quervo right in the eye and say:
“I hope the rain keeps up”.
Then thank your Lucky Strikes your not cruising over the Donner Pass on a Hardtail with no fenders.
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