Charlie The Trencher

About Charlie The Trencher

Prospectors reached Goodyears Bar in 1849, and the camp they built on a gravel bar beside the water has endured as one of the quietest corners of the northern Sierra. Charlie The Trencher keeps grass in order around this historic place, where summer twilight lingers in the canyon long after the sun has dropped behind the ridges. Steady mowing, neat trimming and a thorough tidy-up keep small yards looking orderly against the wild slopes rising on every side. There is something fitting about tending grass in ground that was once worked for gold. Today the payoff is green grass, cut even, glowing softly at dusk.