Loon Lake for lunch.

[Papa-Ken]

A blind person asked St. Anthony: "Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?" He replied: "Yes, losing your vision!"............Ken

[me_nmyshadow]

Wow you got clearer pictures of the inside of that cabin than I could see while standing at the windows. That furnature would look just like pine if it didn't look so darn much like manzanita!
Also a great picture of the house with the fountain in front. Sorry I didn't walk over there now.
As many lakes and streams as I have had lunch at with you guys is kinda maken me long to learn how to fly fish. (someone twist those words around to make them work right would ya please)?

[Papa-Ken]

Originally Posted by me_nmyshadow

Wow you got clearer pictures of the inside of that cabin than I could see while standing at the windows. That furnature would look just like pine if it didn't look so darn much like manzanita!
Also a great picture of the house with the fountain in front. Sorry I didn't walk over there now.
As many lakes and streams as I have had lunch at with you guys is kinda maken me long to learn how to fly fish. (someone twist those words around to make them work right would ya please)?

Yes it surprised me also Frank as I couldn't see much looking through those windows. I just placed the camera lense tight against the window and with a flash that is the result......Ken

[Ally House]

The name on the boat is interesting; we've got a park up here called "Dolly Varden". Can't help you with the history on that yet, but kinda interesting. The park is up Fall Creek reservoir, and it is kind of a pretty, green area.

Looks like a great ride, yet again. Love the history pictures.

[an old mans eyes]

Hello Ken, another nice RR and looks like a great day on the road. Joe looks like he has skill in many things that fountain looks great...Rick.

[Papa-Ken]

Originally Posted by Ally House

The name on the boat is interesting; we've got a park up here called "Dolly Varden". Can't help you with the history on that yet, but kinda interesting. The park is up Fall Creek reservoir, and it is kind of a pretty, green area.

Looks like a great ride, yet again. Love the history pictures.

I recall a sawmill in Arcata, Ca. named Dolly Varden and I was sent there with four other trucks to pick up loads of lumber. As I recall I was 19 at that time and there was a strike at the sawmills........so we had to cool our heels for a few days. We stayed at a hotel in Arcata and there was a school teachers convention going on at that time, Curly and Ellis Coombs two brothers from a family of truck drivers were part of the gang I was with and they were ladies men. Married but chasers and they got this young buck into a lot of trouble.

Enough on that subject but about Dolly Varden:
"Dolly Varden" in California


Dolly Varden trout (S. m. malma) in spawning coloration


The first recorded use of the name "Dolly Varden" for a fish species was applied to members of S. confluentus caught in the McCloud River in northern California in the early 1870s. In his book, Inland Fishes of California, Peter Moyle recounts a letter sent to him on March 24, 1974, from Valerie Masson Gomez:

My grandmother's family operated a summer resort at Upper Soda Springs on the Sacramento River just north of the present town of Dunsmuir, California. She lived there all her life and related to us in her later years her story about the naming of the Dolly Varden trout. She said that some fishermen were standing on the lawn at Upper Soda Springs looking at a catch of the large trout from the McCloud River that were called 'calico trout' because of their spotted, colorful markings. They were saying that the trout should have a better name. My grandmother, then a young girl of 15 or 16, had been reading Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge in which there appears a character named Dolly Varden; also the vogue in fashion for women at that time (middle 1870s) was called "Dolly Varden", a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat. My grandmother had just gotten a new dress in that style and the red-spotted trout reminded her of her printed dress. She suggested to the men looking down at the trout, 'Why not call them "Dolly Varden"?' They thought it a very appropriate name and the guests that summer returned to their homes (many in the San Francisco Bay area) calling the trout by this new name. David Starr Jordan, while at Stanford University, included an account of this naming of the Dolly Varden Trout in one of his books.

In 1874, Livingston Stone, a naturalist working for the U.S. government wrote of this fish:[3]

Also called at (Upper) Soda Springs the 'Varden' trout. … The handsomest trout, and, on the whole, having the most perfect form of all the trout we saw on the McCloud. Also, the only fish that had colored spots. This one was profusely spotted over most of the body with reddish golden spots. ... The local name at (Upper) Soda Springs is the Dolly Varden.

[Tyler]

Loon Lake is one of my favorite destinations up that way... we were just there over Memorial Day weekend... it is one of those places that is so easy to just relax and reflect!

[rideonXX]

Great write up and pictures one again Papa-Ken. Looking forward to each new report.

By the way-----how are getting on with your new bike?

Happy trails, kel

[Papa-Ken]

Originally Posted by Tyler

Loon Lake is one of my favorite destinations up that way... we were just there over Memorial Day weekend... it is one of those places that is so easy to just relax and reflect!

We try to stop by once or twice a year Tyler as it is in our back yard.


Great write up and pictures once again Papa-Ken. Looking forward to each new report.

By the way-----how are getting on with your new bike?

Happy trails, kel

The more I ride it Kel, the better I like it. I do believe it is a keeper but then again I am a pack rat and tend to keep things..........Ken

[jaxthedog]

I'll bet our paths crossed this day. Wonderful country. Great riding. Fabulous pictures. Thx, Ken.