TCT #27 -- Barbara Balen

Barbara Balen and the Columbia Ditch

Our March 7, 2020 outing promises drama, history, engineering, archaeology, anthropology, geology, and botany.  Sound like a college course catalog?  Well, that's entirely appropriate, as we'll be at college -- the trails at Columbia College, that is.  Listen to TCT #27 -- Barbara Balen for a discussion about the hike and other topics including Tuolumne County's historic ditch system and "wild crafting."  Barbara's doggos even chime in!  The episode also includes real-time audio trip reports from our "Take All the Trails at Tuttletown" trip last weekend which enticed 50 (yep, 50!) trail heads to come out for the event.  Thank you to Bureau of Reclamation Ranger Pat Sanders and her husband Harold for providing interpretation and helping with the human herding!

Here's a link to the radio program TCT #27 -- Barbara Balen: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qvUZD0s-4zAbO43zWS3my-Er_TGB0sqE/view?usp=sharing

We talked with Tom Hofstra and Jeff Tolhurst about the trails at Columbia College in episode TCT #24 -- Columbia College.  TCT #27 and TCT #24 make a nice pair of related programs giving a well-rounded overview of this imminently-accessible community resource.

Here are some photos from the "Take All the Trails at Tuttletown" gathering:

About 50 turned out for the hike at Tuttletown (New Melones Lake)!

Manzanita blossoms attracted hummingbirds

(Bobcat ?) skull

Steve and an errant tire from a wave attenuator

Stevenot Bridge on Highway 49 from shady Heron Point Trail