The CalTrans website showed that SR162 from Oroville to Bucks Lake was open except for a daily weekday closure just north of Oroville for road repairs. The shot to the right was the first view of Lake Oroville from SR162 north of Oroville.
My Cousin Bill, who lives near Oroville, said that once when he tried to drive to Bucks Lake on SR162 it was blocked by snow not too far past a sign which said "Snow Not Removed Past This Point," or something similar. This view is toward the dam from next to the large suspension bridge over one arm of the reservoir.
And here's Oroville's version of the Golden Gate Bridge.
A view of the right arm from the suspension bridge just after a speed boat motored by.
The leftmost arm from the suspension bridge.
Continued by driving up SR162 after taking a break for lunch at the Berry Creek Post Office; there was a 10-mile detour around a slide using Bald Rock Rd, which was a granite outcropping unusual for its location at such a low elevation and with a mixed oak, pine, & fir forest. As I stopped to photograph the dogwood tree in blossom, a couple went by me in an old Ford F250 with snow tires.
Never saw them again since I was stymied at a snowbank on the northern side of a ridge. Even 4-wheel drive wouldn't get me through the snowbank since the front of the pickup, despite its heavy weight, was high-centered and couldn't get traction without snow tires. So I returned to Cousin Bill's place in Oroville and told him he was right.
Did get this final photo from the junction of SR162 and Bald Rock Rd just below the USFS Brush Creek [Click 1 or 2 times to zoom in on the valley around Yuba City/Marysville. While the valley was visible to the naked eye it does not show up in this photo even if you enlarge it twice.]
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Links:
- Wikipedia article on Oroville
- History of Bucks Lake blog
- Wikipedia article on Plumas County
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