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These days I'm spending more time looking at snow melt data in Montana for my early July trip. Eastern Sierra in August. Olympic Peninsula and South Cascades / Rainier in September. I seem to be a creature of habit these years and keep going back to the same places. I learned long ago that the more time you spend in a good place, the more good hikes you find there.
A former housemate of a number of years back in the late 70s/early 80s died a few weeks ago, and there was an online memorial for him yesterday. I saw faces of a number of people I had not seen in 30+ years. A bunch of grey haired old folks, we are.
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Ordering truck parts and doing some early planning for a one-week trip to Utah in September .... until then ...
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With $5 gas prices these days, I’m just staying home. Or working on my property less than ten miles away.
After wind, rain and snow the past two weeks and snow as late as last Monday, suddenly we’re in the upper 80s. So both my current home and my future one is wanting some attention.
Yesterday I was running a heavy length of railroad rail I have modified as a drag to clear a fire break along my fences at the property. While doing so I saw smoke starting to billow about 3/4 mile away. Thinking someone was burning brush or weeds, it quickly became apparent that it was an uncontrolled fire. My property looked like it would be missed, but then the wind and started blowing smoke my way. I drove over there and found the fire was across a dirt road from one new home, but burning toward two other homes a half mile away. The half dozen homes near me are widely scattered, but all have been put in within the past couple years. I hope it doesn’t portend of things to come. My new home isn’t predicted to be delivered until December.
DAW
~When You Live in Nevada, "just down the road" is anywhere in the line of sight within the curvature of the earth.
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Yesterday's high at Furnace Creek was 110. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
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Yep, high temps have arrived here in Northern Nevada and I'm assuming fire & smoke are soon to follow. Stay safe, DAW.
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A week at my mom's coming up, followed by St George Utah with son, followed by Arches on my own. Not much time in between, so I've been packing the van for Ohio and out west. It's amusing to feel my mind grapple with the contradictions (a visit to my mom has little in common with camping and hiking).
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(2022-05-16, 01:03 PM)TacoLand Wrote: Yep, high temps have arrived here in Northern Nevada and I'm assuming fire & smoke are soon to follow. Stay safe, DAW.
Thank you, I’m trying!
DAW
~When You Live in Nevada, "just down the road" is anywhere in the line of sight within the curvature of the earth.
