My Trails

Road

I hope I can get out of here in the next couple days. With all the rain over the last week, and pickup trucks driving back and forth across this muddy spot in the road, I’m a little concerned about making it out. When it is dry you can sometimes straddle the ruts, but if it is slippery, you will just slide right down into them.

I never expected this much traffic over the holiday weekend. I talked with a couple guys on ATV’S and they said it is bow hunting season and these trucks are probably hunters. He said a lot of them are too lazy to walk so they hunt from their pickups. I saw one pickup filled with guys in camouflage clothing go by my camper at least 20 times yesterday.

With all the cloudy weather over the last few days, it has been a struggle getting a good charge on my batteries. My generator just doesn’t put much juice into the batteries like my solar does.

And to make matters worse, it has been cold. Every night drops into the 30’s. Two nights ago we even had a layer of snow and hail. This means that my heater runs a few times in the night, using up what precious juice I have stored during the day. Once, when I awoke in the night to check things out, I ended up starting my generator at 3 am so as not to kill my batteries. During the day I use my catalytic heater, which uses no electric, but I don’t trust it overnight.

I’m not sure where I will go now. I would like to run up to Glacier NP for a day or two but it will depend on various things. This is the time of year to see National Parks because the crowds are gone. I wanted to jump over to the Pacific Coast and slowly move south but a more direct route back to AZ may be wiser. It is certain I will have to move soon because the tanks are full and the cupboard is bare.

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