Time had rolled around for our yearly spring visit to our cabin in Washington State. First treat along the way was the cold, early morning, mountain mist of the Lake Shasta region in northern California. One tires of the dry desert of the central valley and we felt renewed as we headed into the mountains. Something I hadn't know is that Shasta Lake, keystone of the Central Valley Project, is the largest man-made reservoir in California. When full, its 365 mile shoreline exceeds that of San Francisco Bay.