Crews have been busy getting recreation sites prepared for the public to enjoy. – Memorial Weekend kicks off the busy summer recreation season for the Eldorado National Forest.
(Interested in receiving email updates about Women Who Dare? Subscribe here.Eldorado National Forest Reminds Everyone of Fire Safety this Memorial Day Weekend along with several Recreational Openings. I plan to spend the weekend (April 21st-23rd) in San Francisco, then head north toward Seattle on Monday. If you haven’t checked it out yet, here’s a link to the tentative route. With the taste of spring still in my mouth, I think it’s time to pack up and head out of the mountains. I made it back to Tahoe, where it’s snowing again. While I took in the sights, a couple of self-described hillbillies told me the fire was started by some guy lighting his ex-girlfriend’s garage on fire.
Rather, the south side of the lake is bordered by rather ghostly black burned tree carcasses. Once named for the logging activity in the area, there are no longer stumps lining the shore. Plan set, I packed up, ate some leftover rice and beans, and made the slow grind back up hill. My grizzled man told me the epicenter of the King fire was 15 miles or so back up the hill, so I figured I might as well check it out for myself. The smell of pine trees, the chirp of birds, and the warmth of sunshine found me instead. The Easter bunny didn’t find me in my tent, but that’s okay. He thought my stoves were pretty cool, too. Some members of his church even pulled his camper up to the campground and paid for a couple nights of camping, so he could spend some more time in the woods. With the help of a new church community, he started to enjoy the beauty in the world. Because after this random act of violence he found his way to God. He wasn’t mad about it, though, not at all. This grizzled old man, who wore a skateboarding helmet and used a golf club for a cane, told me all about building the hilly road I had just biked down.īut now, he told me, a traumatic brain injury made it hard to follow a straight train of thought. Over dinner I was visited by another resident of the Dru Barner campground.
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(Want to learn how to make your own soda can alcohol stoves? Check out this site.) Cooking rice and beans has never been so much fun. My new stoves and crockery were a delight to use. The rest of the ride was uneventful, with an hour of hard uphill work turning into 15 minutes of flying back down to the campground. My first flat of Women Who Dare.ĭinner is better when you get to sleep in a tent Stopping to check the tire, I found a small, very sharp pebble sticking straight out of the rubber. But a few pedal turns later it was undeniable. At first I willfully ignored this telltale sign of a flat. Not four miles in, though, I heard my tire making a funny fwopping noise. Without much daylight left, I resolved to take a short ride (uphill) on my fully loaded bike, then return to camp to try out my new camp stoves. To celebrate the goreous, sunny spring day I took a quick nap in the grass.įeeling drowsy, but rejuvenated, I motivated to get my things out of the car.
I made it to the Dru Barner campground at about 3 o’clock. I’d drive to the campground, get my bike and gear out of the car, and then pretend like the car wasn’t there for the next 24 hours. Not at the town municipal lot, not at the Walmart, not anywhere.įinally, I arrived at Plan C. This was a great plan, until I got to Placerville and learned that there’s no overnight parking in any lot. I’d drive down to Placerville (where there really wouldn’t be any snow or threat of snow), drop the car, and bike thirty miles or so to a cute little campground in El Dorado National Forest. Then we returned to winter, with two feet of snow in the past two weeks. Which meant, to me, that spring was really on its way. But that was back in March when it didn’t snow for three whole weeks in a row. It’s not an adventure if you know what’s going to happenĪs I dreamed up this weekend for a shakedown ride, I figured it would be just warm enough for some camping south of Lake Tahoe in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
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