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Sierra Essay Research Paper SIERRA

Sierra Essay, Research Paper


SIERRA


My family and I have always loved are camping trips, especially the ones the take us deep into the depths


of the Sierra Nevada mountians. There’s a very unique and beautiful camp ground near Mammoth Lakes


called Devils Postpile. My is it beautiful, two gigantic crystal clear lakes, wildlife sites that could easily be


posted in any National Geographic magazine, and trout that have enough meat on their bones to suvive in


the deepest of any ocean. One little problem I always have had was that my father was a better and more


experienced fisherman than I was resulting in that he would always catch the bigger and more beautiful fish


and almost certainly come home with twice as many fish as I had caught.


This was it, are summer vacation, finally it was time to get out of the intense heat and bordom of


Ridgecrest. We packed are bags, grabbed are fishing poles, loaded the camper and were on are way. Our


drive lasted for four very long hours before we got to the Postpile campground. We hitched are camp and


made ourselves right at home knowing we would be there for a while. We could’nt ask for better weather,


the sun was blazin and the temperature was an awesome 85 degrees for fishing the San Juaqin river. We


found ourselves the trail that lead to the postpile, twisting and turning along the green, damp trial until we


came upon a sight that every human being should lay their eyes on, Devils Postpile. Enormous rocks all


rubbing against one another scalling the sky. Jumping my way close to the river, as I drifted away from


everyone else, knowing I was going to catch the mother of all fish in this sacred river. Competing with my


father and brother, I definetly was’nt going to let them outdo this modern day Tom Sawyer. I hicked along


river for a while, wiping the sweat off my face every other minute, only to find nothing but sheer cliffs and


there was no possible fishing hole in sight. All I could see was a river about seventy to eighty feet below


with one very big obsticle in the way jagged rocks were surrounding me from the river as I just kept on


stumbling along. Soon I spotted what was going to be my home for the next hour or so, an old dead tree


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lying in the middle of the river, just where the cliffs had seemed to vanish. I gracefully climbed out onto the


old tree, where below was nothing but roaring rapids crashing into rocks and creating small pools, where I


knew there had to be ten’s of thousands of starving fish. I then baited up my hook with a slimmy earthworm


and dropped it into the waters below. Jerking and pulling at my bait I began to get very impatient, after


about ten to fifteen grooling minutes of this nonsense, I decided to put on the numero uno bait of them all


the Panther Martin. Probably the best known lure to man. I casted it out far into the depths of the raging


river and before I could say “bite” I had struck gold. That fish was fighting and pulling at my pole like Mike


Tyson. I thought for sure that I was going to bring up a fish worth the price of gold. After a long hard fight


I finally reeled my prize in to the base of the old dead tree, and to my disapointment it was a whole five


inches SMALL. “Unbelievable” I yelled out, throwing my tired arms in the air. These were’nt your


everyday trout I was going for either though, they were the sacred Brown Trout, naturals is you wish to


call them. He sure was a beautiful fish though, with his dark brown back and his light brown belly, with all


those red and orange spots covering his petite body. So I let the little guppy swim freely, and continued


down the no whatsoever trail, bumping into rocks and slamming into trees, hoping to find his big brother.


Well I never found that big, bold and beautiful fish I was looking for, but I certainly got my fair share for the


day. Finding my way through the dense forest I stumbled upon my campground where I was the first of


the fisherman back. Showing my prize trophies to my mom, just hoping that I was the luckiest on this fine


day, but sure enough my dad came back soaking wet, with his mud dreched clothes, holding a stringer


much nicer than the one I was previously showing off. We had many more great days and night in the camp


ground and on that river before we headed back down south to the beloved heat of the desert. Every


minute closer to Ridgecrest ws also every minute closer to next years camp trip to the Sierra Nevada’s.


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