The Flån Valley route is truly spectacular - world class scenery - take the word of a traveler. Immense ckiffs, huge gushing waterfalls, a rushing river, trees everywhere, and the train quite dwarfed by it.
At the summit of the regular rail route we saw whole valleys totally covered in snow. On the eve of the summer solstice, spring had yet to arrive in any meaningful way - very Alpine-looking.
The general reaction of two native Californians to so much gushing, splashing, obviously fresh water was poor, dry CA needs this and they're letting it run into the sea. I wonder if fresh water will become a valued export of wet places like Norway, Ireland, and British Columbia in much the same way as oil is today?
Finding a water source and routing it to where people need water is a key part of the legacy of the western U.S. The old Mormon canal-builders' superb gravity-powered handiwork supports farming (and existing) throughout the Mountain West. They made a desert bloom.
Under governors like the incumbent's can-do father Pat Brown, CA did much the same. Leaders with that degree of chutzpah seemingly no longer exist.
We've become a self-shackled giant hobbling around mumbling about "limits." As a nation we are no longer self-confident.
Finding a water source and routing it to where people need water is a key part of the legacy of the western U.S. The old Mormon canal-builders' superb gravity-powered handiwork supports farming (and existing) throughout the Mountain West. They made a desert bloom.
Under governors like the incumbent's can-do father Pat Brown, CA did much the same. Leaders with that degree of chutzpah seemingly no longer exist.
We've become a self-shackled giant hobbling around mumbling about "limits." As a nation we are no longer self-confident.
