East end of Tuolumne Co.CA.The first Europeans were in CA long before the East got them.Also people forget we have SAR people who fought the Brits.in 76.Our County has a National Park--Yo Semite and the Stanislaus Nation Forest and two main rivers,the Tuolumne and the Stanislaus,but our pop is 155,000.We go from 250 ft to 13,000.R ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Selub" <lselub@recy.com> To: <PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 7 59 AM Subject: RE: [PABRADFO] TIOGA PASS,CA > Roland -- where is this? > Linda > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Elliott [mailto:RolandElliott@thegrid.net] > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 7:16 PM > To: PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PABRADFO] TIOGA PASS,CA > > > Just got back from going over the hill[10,000ft]Tioga Pass got its name long > after Tioga PA.The Sierra,start at about sea level and and climb easterly to > the crest in about 60 miles.Granite is the rock and rain and snow is the > climate--snow at 8000 today and up--,at the Pass the most precious pass in > the world,one step down from heaven,the moisture is over 80 inches,in 7 > miles through volcanic you are at 4500 in high desert where there is less > than 10 inches of moisture,it has only been that way in the last 300 > years.Saw Friends,Relatives and went to LONGVALLEY the most active > Earthquake area in the World-if interested I will send the URL-- and went > from Mono Lake --the only inland ocean that has a active volcano--to the > Caldera of LongValley and up Rock Creek where the earth is emitting CO2 and > killing living things in spots of 1/4-1/2 acre,it just seeps out of the > ground.The electricity for Mammoth comes from geothermal.Tired.R > >