Hope Valley: A Place of Refuge & Solitude for the Ringers…Photos by Herb Ringer

 From Joseph Ringer’s Journals: “June 9, 1945. Herb took us up to Hope Valley Calif to camp out there for the 1st time. It was cold so we all sleeped in the car & when we got up in the morning there was ice in one of are pots of water.
It was 22 degrees. We had a dinner and supper there
went up as far as the lake in the mtns.
Where we sleeped it was over 7000 feet. Made 146 miles on this trip.  It was a fine day in the afternoon it got up to 82 degrees.”

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“The last picture of my father, Joseph Ringer, Christmas 1962. Hope Valley.” – Herb.
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After his father’s death in 1963, Herb did not return to Hope Valley for more than 30 years. But, in 1997, Herb and I took one last journey to the place he and his parents loved so much. – Jim Stiles
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