![]() ![]() Over the 55 years I have been running the Mono Hot Springs Resort, I have probably driven Kaiser Pass longer and more often than anyone. It probably took the forest service about two days to fix the 25 foot gap in Kaiser Pass Road so we had all the people in Moto Hot Springs stranded except for a long alternate route on the Stump Springs Road. So, that was a moment I felt really lucky to be alive because I could have very easily lost my life on that ordeal! ![]() Getting across this patch of road was worrisome because the swiftness of the water could take my truck right off the road, but I made it through! Then, as I looked in my rear view mirror, to my astonishment I saw the whole road slide down the mountain side leaving about 25 foot gully behind me! I just sat there for a while until the rain had subsided a bit and decided I better try to make it across while I still could. ![]() The culvert wasn’t able to take all the water and was running right over the top of the road off this very steep mountain side. I had just passed the crest and was beginning the decent about 200 yards south of the summit when I reached what was normally a small creek that usually ran through a culvert under the road that was now running over the road with about a foot of water. The cloud burst was so extreme I couldn’t see anything in front of me. One particularly scary incident occurred when I was delivering mail to the Huntington Lake Post Office for Mono Hot Springs and an unusually intense thunderstorm hit just as I was coming over 9184 foot Kaiser Pass. The weather around Mono Hot Springs, Northern California’s most remote hot springs resort can come in all different forms during the summer in the high sierras – and sometimes in very intense cloud bursts! I remember one summer that it actually flooded the store and cabins at the resort, and we’ve had maybe two or three of those in the 55 years I’ve been up here. Photos from the Story of Big Creek by Dave Redinger ![]()
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