Taking Herr42's suggestion...
I have a couple of winter camping trips/outings planned -- one a relatively local one, the other not:
I have a 4-day weekend for Thanksgiving, and over the years -- almost 20 years, I think, most of those years, I've gone out camping in southeast Oregon or northwest Nevada high desert for some or all of that stretch. A couple of times a buddy and I have grilled a whole turkey on a Weber kettle (turned out Martha-Stewart great!) -- with all the trimmings! We were camped at the mouth of McGill Canyon on the west side of the Jackson Mts on the northeast arm of the Black Rock Desert -- where I've camped several times. A couple of times (when camped in the Alvord Desert area) I've been invited to join the Fields Cafe for T-Day dinner.
Sometimes I decide to be social and spend T-Day with friends in town, but then I still usually head out Friday.
Then, between Xmas and New Years (I usually take off that week from work), after spending a couple/few days with the folks/siblings in Redding, CA, I frequently head east across Nevada with the far border and Great Basin National Park my usual destination. I've been the only person camped in GBNP most of the time during that period -- that's cool. Yeah, it's cold -- sometimes single digits at night, sometimes warmer -- but really not colder than Bend (home) even though camped at 7500'. Lots of other cool destination on the way or slightly-beyond. On the way might be the Big Smoky Valley -- including Spenser Hot Springs just south of US50. Slightly-beyond might be the west side of the House Range in far-western Utah, near the base of the amazing Notch Peak -- a huge limestone cliff a couple-thousand feet high!
Sometimes I head back to Oregon in time to meet friends at the Alvord (my favorite OR destination) for New Years. When I head home depends on what days of the week the holidays fall and when I have to be back to work.
You'd think I'd head somewhere warm for winter camping...but nope. I want dry, but warm is optional.
Who else has plans for winter camping and where?
I have a couple of winter camping trips/outings planned -- one a relatively local one, the other not:
I have a 4-day weekend for Thanksgiving, and over the years -- almost 20 years, I think, most of those years, I've gone out camping in southeast Oregon or northwest Nevada high desert for some or all of that stretch. A couple of times a buddy and I have grilled a whole turkey on a Weber kettle (turned out Martha-Stewart great!) -- with all the trimmings! We were camped at the mouth of McGill Canyon on the west side of the Jackson Mts on the northeast arm of the Black Rock Desert -- where I've camped several times. A couple of times (when camped in the Alvord Desert area) I've been invited to join the Fields Cafe for T-Day dinner.
Sometimes I decide to be social and spend T-Day with friends in town, but then I still usually head out Friday.
Then, between Xmas and New Years (I usually take off that week from work), after spending a couple/few days with the folks/siblings in Redding, CA, I frequently head east across Nevada with the far border and Great Basin National Park my usual destination. I've been the only person camped in GBNP most of the time during that period -- that's cool. Yeah, it's cold -- sometimes single digits at night, sometimes warmer -- but really not colder than Bend (home) even though camped at 7500'. Lots of other cool destination on the way or slightly-beyond. On the way might be the Big Smoky Valley -- including Spenser Hot Springs just south of US50. Slightly-beyond might be the west side of the House Range in far-western Utah, near the base of the amazing Notch Peak -- a huge limestone cliff a couple-thousand feet high!
Sometimes I head back to Oregon in time to meet friends at the Alvord (my favorite OR destination) for New Years. When I head home depends on what days of the week the holidays fall and when I have to be back to work.
You'd think I'd head somewhere warm for winter camping...but nope. I want dry, but warm is optional.
Who else has plans for winter camping and where?
