I'm pretty sure we would both like to meet the Lady. She sounds pretty great.
And of course, you too for that matter. You both seem to have a great outlook on life. I-80 is definitely not our cup of tea. Unless the weather is forecast to be really bad, we will no doubt take the route less traveled. I did read somewhere that I-80 has the highest priority to be kept open in bad weather of any of the western highways. Any suggestions where to camp along US 50? Not sure of our schedule yet.
There are several year-round CG along the HW, more depends on snow levels and weather more than anything else where you can go, but check with MarkBC on the BLM,NPS or FS winter CG's east of Austin (have a thread going on that right now) , the GBNP for places that are open too! A real good site tool to find camping areas in the eastern Sierras ,GB and Nevada is actually called the "camping Guide to the Eastern Sierras and Nevada" and the USFS "campgrounds on the HTNF" on the FS site-BLM also has a site on it's State Office page that lists CG's!
FYI-spent some times years ago working on that hidden Pit River BLM CG, it was even more primitive before; next time try out the one SE of Fall River Mills out in the middle of the sage, manz, digger pine and deer brush-neat rock formations and underground caverns too. We had an adventure there one time, had some rancher telling chasing hunters off of it (we even had signs saying it was BLM) and saying it was private ground then taking both the deer they killed and their guns.. It just points out again, the need to know where you are at at all times and how important it is to talk to the local land managers before you wonder around in unknown areas and have lot's of maps! One other rule to remember was hammered into us gov't employees was if someone told you to get off "his " land" and you knew it was public land, get off! Go to the nearest gov't office and let them take care of it-I mean we got the above hunters and both their deer and guns back to them, that day but the day that this happened they flagged down a passing fs employee and they called us and we were there as fast as the LE Ranger and me could do it. Maps, Maps, and remember they call it public land for a reason and despite the puns-it's your land and we are there to help you enjoy it--if we can!!
(at any rate supposed to help you).
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