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Wildlife gets pretty tame around Tahoe Donner but this takes the cake.   This beaver pond is right next to Skislope Way at Alder Creek.   At picture right is the owner’s lodge only 5 yards from the pavement!

There’s also a cabin a mere 30 yards to the left of the image and a 2nd dam on [...]

Well my dad and his friend Barbara Ellis flew west from Florida for a week of l Sierra adventure.   After touring down 49 to Coloma, Columbia, Sonora and Bridgeport we zipped through Yosemite and wound up in Bridgeport for some fishing.    Though Twin Lakes was stone-cold dead, they were definitely biting in Bridgeport Reservoir:
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