Over the hill, if maybe a little ill-advised…

or ignoring the advisements, which were predicting 100% precip all the way but just rain save for [just] a little snow over the top.

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And rain it was, intense,

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turning to serious sticking snow preceding the chain controls by some dozens of unforeseen slippery miles as the storm moved down the mountain

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after which, once threaded through the usual Cali Creeps creeping along in the passing lane at 15 mph, traffic, if not weather, thinned out nicely

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though not westbound traffic.

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By Verdi the rain returned in which I went south of Reno for bentonite before catching 80 East after an unfortunate incident in Sparks wherein I tripped over a hose while fueling, then

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Wadsworth, 447 north…Pyramid Lake, Nixon [not shown] and,

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sixty miles later, Gerlach.

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Within sight of home at Little Sawmill Canyon things became interesting

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but not impassable

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and by Tuesday morning, considerably less interesting, the soft tissue of the Hand that Hit the Pavement back in Sparks [which kept me unhappily awake most of the night] was most inconveniently swollen, staying that way all the long and unproductive day.

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At least the Cheese Expedition to Empire proved successful as, clearing out half the store’s inventory in the process, I was able to come away with their lone package of sliced cheddar, leaving only Velveeta.

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Wednesday morning, the swelling enough in abeyance to have allowed sleep if not exactly the Use of the Hand, brought snow

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…soon of course reverting to Mud.

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The County finished correcting the Little Sawmill washout…

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with more weather to come, no doubt…and maybe some time in the studio, too.

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etc.

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3 thoughts on “Over the hill, if maybe a little ill-advised…

  1. ann

    Tumbles hurt worse all the time…hope you had ice for your sore mitt.
    How did you get across the gullywasher? Figuring I know the answer…

    Reply
    1. mikesmoore Post author

      The real problem [for icing] was that the damage didn’t really manifest itself for several hours, making it all the worse. Given the contours a bag of frozen blueberries worked nicely. As for your other question, yes, I drove through it…

      Reply

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