Bill Siemer grew up on a farm in Lassen County, played basketball at Shasta JC, went to Vietnam, became a newspaper reporter and then a lawyer and now considers himself a champion of the story that needs to be told. He lives on the bank of the river and takes pictures.
I was born and mostly raised in Colorado, so my response to this was: Mount Blue Sky? It's the former Mt. Evans, one of Colorado's "fourteeners" at 14,266 ft. I've been to the summit several times—there's a road that nearly makes the summit, so it's not an accomplishment. It was named after the Colorado Territory […]