Snowman Wrote:
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> Mike Pechner Wrote:
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> > I am sure you were kidding Snowman. No snow
> going
> > up on I-5. I came back on 58 and Cascade
> Summit
> > 5000 ft. 60" of snow at roadside but pavement
> was
> > dry as a bone.
>
> Yes, I was kidding. I didn't want Maggie SP
> Fangirl to feel so bad about missing the event.

Hey Snowman-- Remember what I said before about WINTERAIL....

Sure looks as though you don’t appreciate the staggering distance by road between northern California and Corvallis, not to mention the even more staggering distance by road between southern California and Corvallis.

It is 600 miles by road from my home on the San Francisco Peninsula to Corvallis, but it was only 85 miles by road from my home to the former Winterail site in Stockton. Winterail in Corvallis is now 7 times as far from me as it was when it was in Stockton!! That is a gigantic difference.

Corvallis is 930 miles from Disneyland in Anaheim, which I am using because it is fairly centrally located in the LA area. By contrast, Disneyland to the old Winterail site in Stockton is 365 miles. Corvallis is more than 2 -1/2 times farther from Disneyland than Stockton.

Winterail is now much much too far from SoCal to drive in one day. It is also now too far from northern California to drive in one day.

We here in California do not think that the world ends at the California -- Oregon border. Winterail in Corvallis is just too doggoned far to drive to in one day for almost everyone in California. California’s has 3- 1/2 times as many people as the states of Oregon and Washington combined.
(California = 38.8 million, Oregon = 4 million, Washington = 7 million. )

It seems to me that Winterail has been moved away from the huge population base that sustained it very well for more than three decades.