Eagle Lake

When the fish are in Pine Creek, there's no time to waste. "I was down working on my Jeep Sunday when Ernie (Spalding) called and said, 'Hey, there are fish running,' " Laird Marshall Jr. said. "So we were up here Monday bright and early." With their rods and flies? Hardly. Fishing at nearby Eagle Lake doesn't open until the Saturday before Memorial Day--May 26 this year.

Eagle Lake, a popular weekend backpacker destination, is accessible by one of Mineral King's easier trails. Relatively easier, that is. A 2,200-foot gain at high altitude in 3 1/2 miles is a good workout to say the least. When the light is right, the lake mirrors its scenic surroundings: weathered foxtail pines, polished granite walls, their shaded cracks and crevices, with patches of long-lingering snow. Eagle, like many Sierra lakes, was "improved" to render it more reservoir-like. Mt.

The bad blood between Linda Weldon and Walter Young goes back almost 20 years. And that feud would seem to account for some of the behavior that has transformed this bucolic small town into crackpot city. "I've never been Mr. Young's favorite person," says Weldon, who has been city manager here since 1979, in speculating on why Young and another local businessman, Earl Rice, would break into her office to plant a bug in her telephone while police videotaped the crime through the window.

The bad blood between Linda Weldon and Walter Young goes back almost 20 years. And that feud would seem to account for some of the behavior that has transformed this bucolic small town into crackpot city. "I've never been Mr. Young's favorite person," says Weldon, who has been city manager here since 1979, in speculating on why Young and another local businessman, Earl Rice, would break into her office to plant a bug in her telephone while police videotaped the crime through the window.

Eagle Lake, a popular weekend backpacker destination, is accessible by one of Mineral King's easier trails. Relatively easier, that is. A 2,200-foot gain at high altitude in 3 1/2 miles is a good workout to say the least. When the light is right, the lake mirrors its scenic surroundings: weathered foxtail pines, polished granite walls, their shaded cracks and crevices, with patches of long-lingering snow. Eagle, like many Sierra lakes, was "improved" to render it more reservoir-like. Mt.

Eighteen people suffered minor injuries Thursday when an Amtrak passenger train carrying 234 people derailed in rural Texas after hitting a truck. The Sunset Limited was en route from Los Angeles to Orlando, Fla., when it hit the truck at a crossing near Eagle Lake, Texas, 60 miles west of Houston. The train's two locomotives and seven of its 10 cars derailed, but all five of the passenger cars that left the tracks remained upright.

Crews searching farm fields found an airplane part that came off a Continental Express commuter flight before last week's crash near Eagle Lake, Tex., that killed all 14 people aboard. The part, a nine-foot de-icing attachment, is considered a vital clue in the investigation into what caused Flight 2574 to crash while en route from Laredo to Houston. Investigators speculated that the de-icing boot fell off because 43 screws were missing from the leading edge of the plane's stabilizer.

A truck driver involved in an Amtrak accident that injured nearly two dozen people ran a stop sign before he was hit, investigators said. The Sunset Limited was headed from Los Angeles to Orlando, Fla., on Thursday when it slammed into the truck in Eagle Lake, Texas, about 60 miles west of Houston. Ten of the train's 13 cars were derailed, and 20 of the 235 passengers and an engineer were injured. Most were treated for bumps and bruises.

Lake Tahoe isn't the only lake in the Lake Tahoe Basin. A hundred lakes, both named and unnamed, are scattered like jewels in a slice of Sierra called Desolation Wilderness, just west of the great lake. Aloha, Avalanche, Boomerang, Hemlock and Half Moon are among the colorfully named lakes situated about 8,000 feet in elevation and bordered with impressive and photogenic granite backdrops.

"My dad doesn't worry about weeding his lawn," said San Diego environmental designer Anita bi'Yazi, "It is weeds." Indeed it is, but it is one weed in particular, an ancient herb named yarrow, and it was planted on purpose. Most books on lawns and turf grasses consider yarrow a weed, a tough and invasive one at that, but this toughness is what suggested that it might make a serviceable substitute for a blade grass lawn.

When the fish are in Pine Creek, there's no time to waste. "I was down working on my Jeep Sunday when Ernie (Spalding) called and said, 'Hey, there are fish running,' " Laird Marshall Jr. said. "So we were up here Monday bright and early." With their rods and flies? Hardly. Fishing at nearby Eagle Lake doesn't open until the Saturday before Memorial Day--May 26 this year.

What a pleasure to read Elliott Almond and Valerie Ice's article on "Maine" (March 12), in which Acadia National Park was discussed. Having lived on Mount Desert Island for 10 years and authored two books on the park, it is fun to be reminded of all the good times in one of my most favorite national parks. However, there were a number of mistakes. Father Pierre Biard (not "Baird") settled at Fernald Point in 1613. The landscape architect was Frederick Law Olmsted (not "Fredrick Law Almstead")

A small plane flying in rain and snow crashed into the woods and killed three members of a Southern California family, the Federal Aviation Administration and Alaska state troopers reported Monday. Pilot James Landes, 26, his wife, Lourdes, and their 4-month-old daughter, Nicole, of Upland, died when their single-engine Piper PA-18 Super Cub crashed Sunday on a flight from Homer to Anchorage, troopers said.