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BY AARON WILLIAMS
Wild Untamed •AND•
water, logged WAT E R S P O R T S A B O U N D I N T H E N O R T H S TAT E JOHN MUIR may have famously written “the mountains are calling and I must go,” but honestly, the lakes and rivers in the North State are worth putting the mountains on call waiting. From Lake Shasta – the gem of Northern California – to Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and the lake with the same name to the seemingly unflappable Sacramento River and beyond, the North State offers a multitude of water activities and adventures. The byproduct of the engineering marvel of the Shasta Dam (worth a tour any time of the year), Lake Shasta is a 30,000-acre reservoir that boasts 365 miles of shoreline as the Sacramento, McCloud and Pit rivers join Squaw Creek to fill the roughly 4.5 million acre-feet of water held back by the dam. The keystone of the Central Valley Project to bring irrigation water to the agriculture fields in the central and southern California, Lake Shasta is the state’s third-largest body of water. 4 continued on page 22
JULY 2020
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