It was a last minute thing. It looked like it was raining up in Pine Valley, so we changed our plans, grabbed our stuff and food and drove up to have a picnic. It had rained, but was done which was good so we could eat outside at the Heritage Center. Then we went down and got ice cream. After that we decided to walk up the road a ways into the valley and see how they were coming on digging out the lake. The rain from that day had been doing more erosion damage. Until some plants start growing over on the burned areas, it just keeps on washing down and causing so much damage. So very sad to see this beautiful place in such bad shape. The dam is washed out, the lake is just a place full of sludge right now that they are trying to clear out, but it keeps filling up. Rocks keep getting washed down the hills from above. It's going to take several years to restore it to something like it was before. There are still a lot of trees that survived at least. It was still a lovely picnic with the fresh rain washed air.