August 18 - Racing Against Time, As They Say...


Up reasonably early, doing a bit of catch-up re 21st-Century Music (unfortunately, the Journal needs more than a bit in this regard...), and eventually out the door


to


another


another long-overdue activity:


getting


back


on


the


road/trail re the walking-from-the-Pacific-to-Reno trip,


over


the


smoky


Sierra


Nevada,


the


skies


finally


clearing into bilowy cumuli when heading down from Donner Summit,


crosing


Truckee


Meadows


into


its


spectacular,


increasingly


rugged


and


arid


Canyon,


crossing


the


Nevada


state 


line,


south


on


395,


then


back


southeast atop 431


to the forest edge,


picking up the


course roughly at the


foot of the


steep Carson Range slopes,





where the land tilts more gently towards


Galena Creek,


which proves to share its name with a wonderful


Regional Park,


replete with



visitors'


center,


expansive views of the Virginia and


Rose Ranges --


also


the


start


of


the


Jones /


Whites


Trail


system,


which shall


certainly be sampled next time,


inshallah.


Back


in


the


car,


head


downslope


again


(noting the beautiful / surreal smokefall)


to scout out the continuing route,


via a Parkway


through the


lamentably


fast-disappearing


Truckee


Meadows



then


west,


north,


and


northwest along curving


South


McCarran


Boulevard.

 
Back into


the thick of it --


smoky skies and traffic-wise --


the way is made past


Boomtown,


Verdi,


back


up


the


now-hazy


grade


into


California's


version


of


the


Truckee


River


Canyon,


up


the


continuing


slope


of


Donner


to


the


Summit,


then


downslope to Cisco Butte,


Burnt Ridge,


Emigrant Gap,


Gold Run,


Colfax Bridge,


across the Sacramento Valley,


the distant


Coast Range beckoning.


Upon return, finish the new orchestral performance edition of The Twelve Fingers: XII. March (51, rather than a mere 15, pages total) over videos with Harriet -- high 100 (58th 90+, 14th 100+), 147th day of summer temperatures (temp tops at 85 for Galena Creek, NV).

Also do a new edition of Elijah Rock: XXVb Samaria and Jerusalem, Op. 71, and compose Psalm 101 ("I Will Sing of Mercy and of Judgement"), recording the latter.