craig333
Riley's Human
Set out Monday and made it as far as the BLM camp above Lake Crowley.
It was windy until the sun went down. Maybe a quarter full if that. Headed into Bishop for breakfast. A bit before the Alabama Hills I said hello on 146.520 and got a reply. I'm headed out of the Hills into Lone Pine for breakfast before heading to Flagstaff for the Expo. I never did see his red Jeep at the Expo but I looked. The butterflies hatched in the high desert and just creamed my truck and camper. Glad I wasn't on a motorcycle. Headed on over to the Trona Pinnacles.
It was hot and windy and worse, the alkaline soil had that sharp spiky look that would just tear up a dogs paws. Maybe not because I haven't seen anyone else mention it but I decided not to risk it and camp there.
Headed out 395 to 58 to 40 and hated it. Not my kind of highway and the truck traffic was unreal. Hoping to find a spot to camp outside of Kingman but this is where not having NF maps really hurt, along with losing daylight. At one point I even told myself I'd stop at a KOA but I lied as I passed two of them. Nothing but Resort signs along the road. Finally I see a road named A-1 mountain road. Thats gotta have someplace to camp right? Thats also when I realized I'd made it to the outskirts of Flagstaff. Well it did have places to camp. Tons of people camped along the road. I was almost afraid I was going to have to park uncomfortably close to someone when I turned deeper into the forest and suddenly the people were gone and I found a nice site.
I was bit ahead of schedule so we just hung out Wednesday reading and going for walks. Thursday I did breakfast in Flagstaff and headed over to Fort Tuthill. Camped by the stables.
Had a nice time chatting with my neighbors except the guy in the flatbed FWC. He was not social. Rained pretty hard that night. Friday I took in the show. I knew it was big but it was so large I had to break it up into chunks to avoid tiring Riley out.
I visited the FWC camp and found Machinebuilder, took advantage of the free food and beer. Found some not so Expo stuff.
Looked at some 7k electric bicycles. Thought that was crazy until I found the 13k electric bicycles.
Started to look at some tear drop trailers for my brother but there was nothing remotely in his price range.
Friday night it got cold. Every vehicle with a heater had it running that night. Good dose of frost when I took Riley out early in the morning. May have helped convince a few tenters to upgrade
One more walkthrough for breakfast and to see if I missed anything. Sundays forecast didn't look good and I decided to head out early, camp twice along the way and not push it so hard as I had on the way down. Plans once again didn't exactly pan out. This time I took 95 out of Kingman. No shorter but a nicer drive and not nearly as much truck traffic. Once you get out of Las Vegas there aren't many places to stop. I decided to stretch my legs at the Mercury turn off. Maybe not the best spot
Turn around is on the other side of the fence so I think you'd have to drive a fair ways in before you met security. Ate at the Hunters Grub N Go. Weather was looking really dark towards the Sierras and the Whites. Fresh snow on the peaks. Didn't find a place to camp until I was halfway along 120. That was a chilly spot. Headed into Lee Vining for breakfast at Nicelys and saw two vehicles in the parking lot carrying snow. Started snowing over Conway Summit. Enough to dust everything but the road. Disappointed to see Monitor pass closed. Snow on and off on 88 and Luther pass. Changed to hard rain coming down 50. Washed off most of the butterflies. Just stopped raining here at home. At least now I have a day to clean up.
Didn't take a whole lot of pics because it was cold enough to wear gloves. Layering was in order. Do I want to wear one jacket or two
It was windy until the sun went down. Maybe a quarter full if that. Headed into Bishop for breakfast. A bit before the Alabama Hills I said hello on 146.520 and got a reply. I'm headed out of the Hills into Lone Pine for breakfast before heading to Flagstaff for the Expo. I never did see his red Jeep at the Expo but I looked. The butterflies hatched in the high desert and just creamed my truck and camper. Glad I wasn't on a motorcycle. Headed on over to the Trona Pinnacles.
It was hot and windy and worse, the alkaline soil had that sharp spiky look that would just tear up a dogs paws. Maybe not because I haven't seen anyone else mention it but I decided not to risk it and camp there.
Headed out 395 to 58 to 40 and hated it. Not my kind of highway and the truck traffic was unreal. Hoping to find a spot to camp outside of Kingman but this is where not having NF maps really hurt, along with losing daylight. At one point I even told myself I'd stop at a KOA but I lied as I passed two of them. Nothing but Resort signs along the road. Finally I see a road named A-1 mountain road. Thats gotta have someplace to camp right? Thats also when I realized I'd made it to the outskirts of Flagstaff. Well it did have places to camp. Tons of people camped along the road. I was almost afraid I was going to have to park uncomfortably close to someone when I turned deeper into the forest and suddenly the people were gone and I found a nice site.
I was bit ahead of schedule so we just hung out Wednesday reading and going for walks. Thursday I did breakfast in Flagstaff and headed over to Fort Tuthill. Camped by the stables.
Had a nice time chatting with my neighbors except the guy in the flatbed FWC. He was not social. Rained pretty hard that night. Friday I took in the show. I knew it was big but it was so large I had to break it up into chunks to avoid tiring Riley out.
I visited the FWC camp and found Machinebuilder, took advantage of the free food and beer. Found some not so Expo stuff.
Looked at some 7k electric bicycles. Thought that was crazy until I found the 13k electric bicycles.
Started to look at some tear drop trailers for my brother but there was nothing remotely in his price range.
Friday night it got cold. Every vehicle with a heater had it running that night. Good dose of frost when I took Riley out early in the morning. May have helped convince a few tenters to upgrade
One more walkthrough for breakfast and to see if I missed anything. Sundays forecast didn't look good and I decided to head out early, camp twice along the way and not push it so hard as I had on the way down. Plans once again didn't exactly pan out. This time I took 95 out of Kingman. No shorter but a nicer drive and not nearly as much truck traffic. Once you get out of Las Vegas there aren't many places to stop. I decided to stretch my legs at the Mercury turn off. Maybe not the best spot
Turn around is on the other side of the fence so I think you'd have to drive a fair ways in before you met security. Ate at the Hunters Grub N Go. Weather was looking really dark towards the Sierras and the Whites. Fresh snow on the peaks. Didn't find a place to camp until I was halfway along 120. That was a chilly spot. Headed into Lee Vining for breakfast at Nicelys and saw two vehicles in the parking lot carrying snow. Started snowing over Conway Summit. Enough to dust everything but the road. Disappointed to see Monitor pass closed. Snow on and off on 88 and Luther pass. Changed to hard rain coming down 50. Washed off most of the butterflies. Just stopped raining here at home. At least now I have a day to clean up.
Didn't take a whole lot of pics because it was cold enough to wear gloves. Layering was in order. Do I want to wear one jacket or two