[pct-l] A Window of Opportunity

[jeffreyn at sonic.net (Jeffrey Zimmerman)]

Those of you who this last year had a chance to ride Skip
Wilder's shuttle service along the eastern escarpment of the Sierra
recall his new Excursion.  Perhaps such a circumstance is the only
politically correct time to use such a vehicle.
<URL: http://www.wilderhouse.com/ >

Alas (Hooray?) even those days may now be dwindling.  Ford has
announced its intent to discontinue the model.
<URL:  
http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/13/pf/autos/bc.autos.ford.suvs.reut/index.htm  
>
Enjoy it while it lasts.

Skip's a good man.  Sure is a comfortable car.  Sure is a gas hog.  For
sure not much else out there.

YARTS is north of there, reaches only as far south as Mammouth.
<URL: http://www.yarts.com/schedule.html >
CREST transit covers much of the southern Sierra, but it's schedule
is impossible.  <URL: http://www.countyofinyo.org/transit/CRESTpage.htm >
"The Dog" (Greyhound) is long gone.

-- 
Jeffrey Neil Zimmerman
Sonoma County, The Left Coast