ASAP GETAWAYS : IT'S APPLE PICKIN' TIME IN JULIAN.Byline: Daily News With pies, jams and apples by the pound and the peck, it's apple harvest season in Julian, the former mining community in the mountains 60 miles northeast of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . Apple season usually lasts through mid-November, with special events and U-pick-'em orchards and farmstands. The Julian Lions Banjo, Fiddle Contest and Bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. Festival runs Sept. 21 and 22 at Frank Lane Park. The all-day events include music and food. Admission is $7 each day for ages 10 to 65; others are $3 each. Old-time melodramas re-enacting Julian's history are performed every weekend in October at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 1:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays in Town Hall. Admission is $3. In a high mountain meadow six miles from Julian along Highway 79, the Laguna Mountain Rendezvous runs Oct. 23-28, featuring a late-1700s to early-1800s Rocky Mountain fur traders encampment. Visitors are welcome between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Admission is $3 a day. U-pick apple orchards include Calico Ranch, 4200 Highway 78, (619) 586-0392; Eden Creek Orchards, 1052 Julian Orchards Drive, (619) 765-2102; and Wandering Woods, 1804 Whispering Pines Drive, (619) 765-1936. Call ahead to check on operating hours. For information on events and other apple orchards, call (619) 765-1857. Isleton: This tiny town northeast of Stockton will host Rodeo on the River Sept. 21 and 22 with dancing in the streets, music, food, a chili cookoff A “chili cookoff'” is a social event, similar to a barbecue, in which competitors prepare their own particular recipe for chili con carne and submit it for taste testing. and clam chowder chowder, stew of fish or shellfish with potatoes, onions, and pork (usually salt pork), thickened with crumbled hard bread. The name chowder seems to have originated from the French word chaudière cooking championship, plus rodeo performances. Events run 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. both days in the Isleton Corral corral a small fenced-in enclosure with high, wooden fences, suitable for holding cattle or horses. corral system a management system in which range cattle are put into corrals and fed hay for a period when the environment is most at Second and Main streets. Admission is $7 adults, $3 for kids age 6-12. Information: (916) 777-5880. Kern County: Guided bird walks, bird netting and banding, food, games, American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. exhibits and tours of the Kern River Kern River A river rising in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California and flowing about 249 km (155 mi) south and southwest to the southern San Joaquin Valley. Preserve Nature Trail are all part of the Kern Valley Turkey Vulture turkey vulture or turkey buzzard Species (Cathartes aura) of long-winged, long-tailed vulture (family Cathartidae), about 30 in. (75 cm) long, with dark plumage, whitish beak and legs, bare red head covered with whitish bumps, and a 6-ft (1.8-m) wingspread. Festival, Sept. 28-29. More than 27,000 vultures passed through the valley during last year's migration season. Events center around the Kern River Preserve in Weldon, 12 miles east of Lake Isabella Lake Isabella is a man-made earthen reservoir in Kern County, California that consists of a main and auxiliary dam. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Kern River at the junction of its two forks at Whiskey Flat. off Highway 178. Information: (619) 378-2531. Kelseyville: Handmade quilts, arts, a parade, a street fair, entertainment, pony rides, a pancake breakfast and more will help celebrate the Kelseyville Pear Festival Sept. 28 in this community situated southeast of Ukiah. Events run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. downtown. The parade, with entries carrying out the pear theme, begins at 10 a.m. along Main Street. Quilts will be on display 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 27 and 28 at the Kelseyville Presbyterian Church at Third and Church streets; admission is $2.50. Information: (707) 279-9022. Colorado: Steamboat Springs will host its annual Fall Foliage Festival Sept. 21 with polka music, dancing, kids games, pony rides, a baby crawl contest and brewfest. Events run 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Ski Time Square and Torian Plum Plaza, near the base of the Steamboat steamboat: see steamship. steamboat or steamship Watercraft propelled by steam; more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle-wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, particularly the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Ski Area. Admission is free. Information: (970) 879-0880. Nevada: Up to 40 Formula I and II speedboats race on Lake Mead in the 1996 Las Vegas Cup when the Formula I PROP Tour makes its last stop of the racing season Sept. 19-22. Admission to the viewing area on the lake's Boulder Beach is free; pit passes cost $5 at pit entrances. Qualifying rounds will be 9 a.m. to noon both days, with racing from noon to 4 p.m. Information: (702) 892-0711. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Jonathans, McIntoshes and more can be found at orchar ds, stores and farm stands around Julian. |
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