2022-02-10, 06:11 PM
An example of what I was speaking of with altitude and latitude. From my field notes May 2, 2000.
Two other authors and I had camped overnight near the Inyo Mine in Echo Canyon. Temperatures at that altitude were comfortable. The morning of the 2nd we hiked to the ghost town site of Schwab. It was cool enough for a sweatshirt. Returning uphill to our trucks, one of the authors, from the Portland area, started getting a heat induced migraine. It was warm enough exiting Echo Canyon that I turned on the AC. It was 92º at Furnace Creek at noon when we arrived. After some discussion I suggested spending the afternoon and camping the night in the Gold Mountain area, camping at Stateline ghost town at 6,000 feet. Wildflowers were in heavy bloom in the Crankshaft Crossing area and lower Tule Canyon. It was in the upper 60s at Stateline when we arrived at 4:00. It was pretty chilly by sunset and the water in my coffee pot on my Coleman had ice in it the following morning.
Two other authors and I had camped overnight near the Inyo Mine in Echo Canyon. Temperatures at that altitude were comfortable. The morning of the 2nd we hiked to the ghost town site of Schwab. It was cool enough for a sweatshirt. Returning uphill to our trucks, one of the authors, from the Portland area, started getting a heat induced migraine. It was warm enough exiting Echo Canyon that I turned on the AC. It was 92º at Furnace Creek at noon when we arrived. After some discussion I suggested spending the afternoon and camping the night in the Gold Mountain area, camping at Stateline ghost town at 6,000 feet. Wildflowers were in heavy bloom in the Crankshaft Crossing area and lower Tule Canyon. It was in the upper 60s at Stateline when we arrived at 4:00. It was pretty chilly by sunset and the water in my coffee pot on my Coleman had ice in it the following morning.
DAW
~When You Live in Nevada, "just down the road" is anywhere in the line of sight within the curvature of the earth.
~When You Live in Nevada, "just down the road" is anywhere in the line of sight within the curvature of the earth.