The Golden Rolling Hills of California.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

My parnter insisted on listening to some Kate Wolf (late Cali folksinger)....so Ive been playing this song for him and me.

Listening to this song, this really is a strong nostalgic imagery of the "Golden State"...those "golden rolling hills" of the Coast Ranges around Vallejo, Vacaville and Winters, and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada...in fact this is the image of California thats burned into my memory...the golden rolling hills...with the groves of live oak.....

[Mountainman]

1. I live in the lower Sierra Nevada mountains

I own twenty acres of those golden rolling hills. Dotted with oak and pine trees. Love it here.

[Trajan]

2. Golden Rolling Hills ...

Damn I miss California now ...

I loved the drive to Yosemite, past Fresno and up 41 .... Through Oakhurst and Coursegold .... The Mariposa Grove and Wawona ...

ALso loved driving through the Calaveras County area in Gold Country : towns like Columbia and Twain Harte .... what a delightful drive ...

Heck: the Mendacino Coast is even better .... We just took the 101 from Astoria, OR to Frisco last year .... what a joy to take my teens through there: there is something very special about pine forests and ocean air ... stopping at the fishing villages for chowder and crab .... yum ...

Wish I could live there, but its too expensive to buy, and not enough work to buy it with ...

Someday ...

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

5. Mendoncino Coast & Clear Lake

when in Cali I dindnt have much $$$, so was camping out alot.

Camped out at Point Arena, and at Clear Lake...

But i just love that north coast..from Bodega Bay up to Fort Bragg..just great!

[proud patriot]

8. We ab dive out of Point Arena

:smoke: Love fresh abolone .

[Duncan Grant]

3. Northern California is incredible.

Oaks for W_H_H. :hi:

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

4. Gosh...thanx....!

Really.,.,this does take me back!

[rumguy]

6. I spent every childhood summer in those golden rolling hills

It is a piece of paradise.

[proud patriot]

7. That's my home

It just doesn't feel like home without golden hills
and oaks .

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

9. I'm not a native, but this was the big memory of my time in Califas

My partner was a native, though, so....

[demosincebirth]

10. The old growth Redwoods forrests...

some giants 30ft in diameter. Truly, God is magnificant

[Duncan Grant]

11. Montgomery Grove,

Orr Springs Road, near Ukiah. AKA, Montgomery Woods State Reserve. Virgin redwood grove; it's like a cathedral in there.

One of the tallest tree in the world is in that grove, 367.5 feet tall - thankfully it's unmarked. Have you been there? :hi: augie38 in Oaktown!

http://www.mcn.org/1/mendoparks/mwtrail.htm

[demosincebirth]

13. I sure have.

I love the drive up 101, north of Willits... to see those Magnificent trees on Avenue of the Giants. I have picture of us (4) being dwarfed by the (I think), very tree you mentioned.
If I every learn to transfer them on to one of my posts, I'll do it. In the meantime, you people will just have to imagine. It make me sick to see the giants that have been cut down in the past.


To think, no other place in the world.

[LDS Jock]

18. Didn't Reagan say

if you've seen one Redwood you've seen them all? I thought I had heard that somewhere.

[Taverner]

12. The Junipero Serra

AKA 280 from Burlingame to Palo Alto

Don't think you'll find a more scenic, beautiful strip of "Golden Rolling Hills of California"

My current commute, The Sunol (680 from Pleasanton to Fremont) comes close, but nothing like the Junipero Serra.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

14. I'm going to Northern California tomorrow morning

Can't wait!!!!!!

[demosincebirth]

15. Espcially at comute time

[Taverner]

16. Actually 280 is relatively sparse during commute time

It's congested, but not stop and go. You move, at the speed limit or higher, unless there's an accident.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Sonoma County...

Having spent half my life in California and half in the Midwest, It's no contest as far as I'm concerned.
Moved back and forth over the years, came back to stay for good in early 1994... I've Lived in Northern CA for over 10 years now. Can't imagine living anywhere else at this point.