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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Aug 01,2008
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Driving down to Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago and back this weekend we were going over the big bridge at Shasta lake when I looked down and saw a Martin Mars moored and support vehicles on the side. Did not appear to have moved over the ten days and the press says the fires in N California are under control so maybe it is just sitting waiting for its next assignmment. (Cheaper than flying home perhaps.)<br /><br />The lake must be nearly a hundred feet below its normal level. Difficult to judge exactly but measuring the bared rock against the size of the houseboats gives some indication. As we passed one of the branches a little furnther North from the bridge we could see that the water had been reduced to maybe twenty or thirty yards wide instead of its normal two hundred odd.<br /><br />Must have been fun flying the big bird down into the extra deep valley to pick up water.<br /><br />Meanwhile we got home to torrential rain in BC and woke up the next morning to find that a large chunk of cliff had fallen on the road a couple of hours after we passed and it will be closed for five or six days so once again we are somewhat isolated from the world, although this time there is an alternate route open, it just takes ten hours instead of two to get to Vancouver!
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Tom Binsfeld - Aug 03,2008
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Chris, I crossed that bridge on July 27th on the way back from Sunriver, OR and got to see the Mars Martin making a pass on the water! It's quite a sight.
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