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11/11/2021

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According to Wikipedia, the Mountain Quarries Bridge is a concrete arch railroad bridge across the North Fork American River near Auburn, CA, and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Also known as the No Hands Bridge, it joins El Dorado and Placer counties and was built in 1912 to transport quarried rock. On 8-19 I posted a photograph of the pond next to my house. The pond is an abandoned granite quarry and was created by damming a creek that runs all year. Doug White snapped this beautiful photograph of the No Hands Bridge.
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The American River originates in the high Sierra Nevada just west of Lake Tahoe, in the Tahoe and El Dorado National Forests. Its three main forks—the South, Middle, and North—flow through the Sierra foothills and converge east of Sacramento. My family and I have white water rafted the river two or three times, with a guide. The only time we all fell out was on the Trinity River. The reason we went under was there had been a dam release that morning, and the water level was extremely high. When the American River is flowing at its peak, water can top the No Hands Bridge.

When you forgive someone, you might suggest it’s water under the bridge. This bucolic aphorism has ties to an ancient Greek phrase, “You cannot step twice in the same river.” In other words, as the river flows on, so does life. Using this aphorism means you’re ready to let the water continue on its way or let bygones be bygones (another aphorism). [source - wordgenius]
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In the back of the raft are, left to right, my brother, the guide, and me, the sane ones adding ballast. All the rest of the people are a bunch of nuts.
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