In the photos, from the top: Tami Corn, the tour supervisor at Shasta Dam, stands by a rail on the dam; Mino Anderson (front) leads a group from the Chico Elks Lodge on a tour at the foot of the dam; a circa-1950s turnstyle demonstrates that the dam used to charge for tours after it first opened; and William Johnson (left) of Arcata looks out on Shasta Lake with his mom, Michelle Johnson of northern Virginia.
Today I had a chance to follow one of the tours of the dam and take some pictures for a big centerpiece story on the state's water system that is set to appear in the Capital Press next week. Special thanks goes to Ms. Corn, who took more than an hour out of her schedule to accompany me and make sure I got whatever opportunities I needed; and to Bureau of Reclamation PR specialist Sheri Harral for setting this up. If you haven't taken a dam tour lately you might want to; they've expanded it in the past year to include a walk through the powerhouse and into an old railroad tunnel that also served as a bypass for the Sacramento River.
We couldn't have picked a better day to do this; the temperature is currently 88 degrees, according to my handy-dandy new weather display courtesy of AccuWeather. As you can see, temperatures are expected to top 80 degrees each day through Monday.
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