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- Kit Carson Pass
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- Thunderbird Lodge
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- Thunderbird Lodge
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- Mrnak Herefords West – Cows & spring calves
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- Mrnak Herefords West – Cows & spring calves
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- Mrnak Herefords West – Spring pair
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- Mrnak Herefords West – Spring bull calves
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- Old Man Tree – Inn at Pasatiempo
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- Ad Hoc Committee Meeting aboard the T-Bird – photo: Jeffery Anne Tatum
Robbin and I headed to Lake Tahoe for a Western Folklife Board Meeting at the Thunderbird Lodge, taking State Route 88 over Carson Pass where a historical landmark exists at the spot where Kit Carson inscribed his name in a tree in 1844. Our meeting was held in the Thunderbird Lodge built by George Whittell in 1936, currently owned by the Thunderbird Lodge Preservation Society administered by WFC Board Member Bill Watson. We even got to ride on the fifty-five foot Thunderbird yacht built to Whittell’s specifications and driven by two 1,100 hp. engines.
After the Board Meeting, Robbin and I drove north through Lassen National Forest to Loren Mrnak’s ranch, and then came home south through Santa Cruz to see our granddaughter Elsie. We met the ‘old man tree’ each time we stepped out of our room at The Inn at Pasatiempo. Good to be home.
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