Monthly Archives: July 2016

French Gazelle

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AU0E8445.jpgChino is full of surprises.  There are many hangars and many unusual things contained in them.  A friend showed me a shot of a Jaguar T4 that was in one of them – I was disappointed to not see that myself.  As I was walking back towards the parking with a fellow shooter, we came across a hangar with a Gazelle in it.  The guy cleaning out the hangar floor invited us in.  It was a French Army Gazelle, still equipped with many electronic boxes from its military role and showing the mounting point on the side of the fuselage where HOT anti-tank missiles were once mounted.  He flies it regularly and says it has been immaculately maintained over its service life.  It certainly looks great.

Squaw Creek in Full Flow

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AE7I4557.jpgSquaw Valley has a river running through it.  This river goes by the name of Squaw Creek – you wouldn’t have guessed would you?  It is a short walk from the center of the resort to get to a series of falls that the creek goes over.  A trail winds its way up into the hills a lot further if you are feeling energetic taking you to a lake (if it is early enough in the year for it not to have dried up).  We didn’t explore all of this.  It was the falls that were of interest.

AE7I4541.jpgThe water was flowing quite nicely with the meltwater run off from the mountains.  It would split around obstacles and take various paths down the hill but ending up together again as it descended.  The falls were in some nice tree cover so it was a cool temperature as you climbed up the trail.