Down
the
sunny-
foggy
corridor
of
I-
80
to
Ariella Hyman's
house,
taking in 15-year-old fraternal twins Eytan and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman's progress on Mark Alburger's Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): I. Allegro troppo -- and they are doing brilliantly well, in preparation for performance of same with San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra in the upcoming concert on November 9.
From
here,
a
meandering local course,
then bolt up 80
in reverse and
beyond through
Placer
(Auburn Ravine,
Colfax Bridge,
Gold Run,
Bear
Canyon,
Emigrant Gap,
Burnt Ridge),
Nevada
(Yuba Gap,
Castle
Ridge,
Donner
Pass,
Granite Chief,
Truckee Bridge,
Meadows,
and
Upper Canyon,
Boca,
the
Middle
Canyon
curve
in the
sunset,
beyond Farad), and
Sierra Counties --
over
the
gamboling /
gambling
border,
then
south on
395 to complete the
Carson Range eastern downslope to the southern part of Reno Valley.
This is accomplished suburbanly --
in bitter cold,
dust-storm, and
high winds (summer is definitely over here, with reports of snow at this level within 24 hours) --
from the downside of Lower Whites Creek open space, in the growing dark of Killington,
Telluride,
Stowe
(yet
the sky of Mt. Rose,
a ghostly Virginia Range,
greater Reno, and
Halloween houses
illumined), Sundance Drives... plus a brief dash on 431.
Re-parking the car at the local McDonald's,
it's up and downslope on the bikepath,
under new 395 to the
junction with the old.
With this the probable end of the out-of-the-local-area 2013 hiking season,
backtrack on the cold upslope to the faithful,
non-violated or -towed-away car,
for the
long progression
back
to
UC Davis Library, taking a look at Dmitri Shostakovich's Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 (1925) and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Op. 11a (1936). Return late to compose page 13 of Communist Manifesto.
