Nine Miles In recounts the incredible adventures of Doug Garton, the first caretaker to ever live year round at beautiful and historic Webber Lake Ranch in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Doug and his first and second wives endured fierce, isolating, yet stunningly beautiful winters. The property contains numerous historic buildings and sites, the most notable being the 1860s Webber Lake Hotel, an original stage stop and resort on the famed Henness Pass Road. This self-made man narrates his nail-biting life and death rescues and close calls while taking the reader through twenty-five years of what times were like managing incredible Webber Lake Ranch.