Re: ski from Fallen Leaf lake to Lake Aloha, Deso wilderness

In article <fab35adc-41f2-43f9-87d1-811a0aa28453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
runcyclexcski@xxxxxxxxx <runcyclexcski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ever camp on snow?

- Oh, ***no*** to this. Planning to bring 2 thermarests and 2 sleeping
bags (don't have a 4-season sleeping bag). I've slept in sub 10 deg
nights before, but not on snow (racetrack, death valley).

2 thermarests? Luxury. Oh you have to carry them both.
I just own blue closed cell foam pads.
I did once use a thermarest for 3 months in Antarctica. The NSF paid for
that. Actually the US taxpayer. We had an LC-130.

I can see your weight accummulating.

The gear isn't the issue. It clouds the issue.
Caves and other snow shelters take time to build.
Tents should have proper platforms.
You should also be capable, if you are trees, of starting a fire.
This is not summer; you won't have the day light advantage.


People think of the area around Tahoe as a cake walk.
I've got friends who live around the Lake (one wrote NNTP) and have a
place not far myself from there now. Some time in the 90, two guys from
SF frozen to death only 150 years from homes at the top of the Kingsbury
Grade. They got lost. In the summer time, a dirt road goes through
this area.


I was at Racetrack last year for a field survey. It was cold. It was OK.
We only had a 2WD govt van, but I recall one SUV going in late in the
day. They popped 2 tires. I heard also the new Super to DV also did 3
tires on his first DV trip. They all drove too fast. I think a friend
and I landed a Cessna on the Playa back before it was added to the Park
or when it was basically legal (old photos).


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