TC Motoring Guild's

Another Dam Tour

June 22, 2003

Four TC's made it out for the perfect weather day. Joe Douglas had his out as well as Jon & Betsy Lutz.  Paul & Kathy Gulsrud got their TC out again for their second Guild tour this year as did Gene Olson (one of the organizers of the tour) doing a second shake down tour in his TC.  Also on the tour in "other makes" were Tony & Cindy Henkels, Bob & Annabel Goldstein, Bob & Charlotte Wilmer, Arnold Douglas (Joe's son on a Triumph motorcycle) and Jay and Jackie Call (the other half of the tour planners). Jackie is a Professor of Geology at Valley College and explained the geology and history of the second largest disaster (loss of life) in California history; the collapse of the St. Francis Dam.  Cindy brought a notebook filled with pictures she found on the internet showing the destruction and some history of the dam collapse.

Jon and Gene admiring the TCs before the dam run. The tour went up San Fransisquito Canyon to the area where the old St. Frances Dam was. The whole gang at the parking area before the dam hike. Four TCs (one peeking out from behind the truck) and a Triumph at the dam parking area Betsy Lutz, Kathy & Paul Gulsrud and Cindy Henkels on the dam rubble Walking back from the dam hike. The tour came back through Bouquet Canyon where the group stopped to pick cherries at the u-pick cherry farm. Charlotte Wilmer and Bob & Annabel Goldstein picking cherries on the way back from the dam tour Tony picks a few cherries too (for the raffle ?) after the dam tour. The Lutz's TC sprung a heater hose leak on the way home from the dam tour. The only repair of the day.