Been awhile since I've been up here. I think the first time I came up was 1980 something when I worked for SCE. Always loved it up here. The old guys used to call this Gods Country, and I think they were right.





I remember coming up here in July and looking up at the snow banks on the side of the road. Seems like those days are gone.





Water is almost scarce up here now. Not even the hydros can run its so low. What's scarier is the vegetation is pretty dry, and it's only May. I can't imagine what it will be like in August.





But it's still amazing up here. The color of the water is crazy blue.



I was only able to visit Big Creek #1 yesterday. There are somewhere around 8-10 power houses up here not to mention several other facilities. Back in the day we would spend two weeks here and it would take almost that long to visit them all.



Big Creek #1 also used to have a hatchery with a dedicated staff. Seems the environmental nazis but an end to that because the fish were contaminating the river with their poop. Imagine that, now the fish need a treatment plant to poop lol



When this place was alive it was like a small city. There was a waiting list to get in to a company owned and provided home. Today many, if not most of them are empty.



Strange. With all the cutbacks and layoffs and automated facilities, why are our electric rates still rising? Lol



I would still love to come up here for a solid week with a little boat, a couple fishing poles and ice chest in tow and do absolutely nothing.



It really is Gods Country


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