Back in the ‘60’s there were huge logs floating around the lake at Weber Dam.
When the area was logged in the ‘40’s the loggers would cut the trees, buck them into 30’ lengths then sent down to the lake where they would be floated to the staging area to load the logging trucks.
The butt logs were too heavy for the crane to lift so they were abandoned.
There were 4-6 of these monsters floating around for us Placerville kids to enjoy for years. Hmmmmmm!
Reminds me of an adventure. As you know…..most of all the Weber Dam stories start out so innocently!
You all have your stories you remember as if they were yesterday !
– Paul Simms
When I was going to Junior College at UBR, we would go to Webber Dam every day after classes and log roll on some monster logs near the dam.
– James Hunt
That dam is scary to walk across at night!!!
– Donna Larson
Used to go swimming there all the time we bring a jug of wine and tie a rope around it and drop it in the Lake and when we wanted to drink we just pull it up drink and put it back in the lake keep it cold.
– James Peterson
Used to go on swimming dates with my boyfriend (now husband) there with picnics . Great High school memories.
– Linda McCain Morris
I remember more than one occasion where some of us El Dorado high school (1969-1973) kids would climb the steps and enjoy the water and beer or Boon’sfarm or Spinata/Tyrolia (sp??) or what ever we could get our hands on… Fortunately I can’t remember the name of the boys who did some nude inner tube floating for several hours. Nasty sunburns. We didn’t see them at school for a few days. I always expected to see a news headline that the dam had collapsed. Scary – but we made it this far.
– Rita Yates
You could park down there and walk up. Cars looked REALLY small down there with nothing but the rickety hand rail up top! Almost lost a friend on that spillway with rebar sticking out the bottom!
– Sindi Briceno
Yes. The mossy spillway stairs when you went up before drinking and then back down after.
I sometimes don’t know how I survived my invincible youth.
– Jackie Borree Speir
I can remember ditching school and going there!
– Marcia Duncan Harris
I remember climbing up those precarious steps, hiking into the forest, and building up the courage to jump into.the cool water from the rock high above. Fun times
-Dean Garrison
We used to sleep up on top of the dam and catch Catfish. Catch and release. I wouldn’t go up on that Dam now for anything. We also used to catch suckers (a type of fish) with our hands on a flat rock in Weber Creek. Like most people in Camino back then we spent a lot of time at Weber Dam always walking in from Snows Road.
– Fred Buhlert
Spencer Roundtree and I used to hike up there with our girls all the time back in the day, no way I would try those steps now.
Bonner Mike Phelps
Oh yes indeed Weber Dam…good times and fearless we were then.
– Pooki Maria Hunter Herrera