Sierra Clouds

A moving train, albeit ever so slow, is a difficult place from which to take pictures. These interesting clouds were hovering over Mt Rose as we pulled out of the station at Truckee. The color is definitely off in this shot. I’m not sure if it’s my camera or the train windows.

We have had many memorable backpacking and ski trips in the Sierra Nevada mountains and we were feeling quite nostalgic as our train, the California Zephyr chugged over Donner Pass and in a great horseshoe bend around a place where we once went snow camping.

There was little sleep to be had that time, and what little we were able to snatch was interrupted with regularity as trains rounded the horseshoe bend first up one side of the place where we were camped, round the top where the sound of the train was somewhat muffled by the trees, then back down the other side of the bend in all it’s clattering, wailing noisiness.

We are now traveling toward Reno and noting the difference between verdant tree and snow covered slopes on the west side of the range and the dry, rocky desert conditions on the eastern (Nevada) side.

It will be interesting to see how we fare tonight in our tiny sleeper cubbyhole. Clarence, our attendant will put down the upper bed, unfold the lower one and make them up for the night while we are at dinner. There will be about 8” of space left once he does that. I think I will see to it that OilMan sleeps on the bottom, given his tendency to get disoriented and stumble around during the night....The adventure continues....