{"id":1926,"date":"2017-04-28T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:10:00","slug":"strawberry-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1927\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170425_122805.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1927\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170425_122805-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Still cold up top!\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170425_122805-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170425_122805-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170425_122805.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still cold up top!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The last time I visited Great Basin NP, I found a nice, free camping spot about 5 miles from the park. The wind for the past few days has been blowing too strong to make travel pleasant, so I decided to hold up at my previous discovery until the weather returned to more normal.  The road I&#8217;m camped on is called Strawberry Creek and I have good and bad things to say about camping here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only a couple miles from Route 50, but it is far enough in behind some hills that I have no cell signal. There is a nice little creek beside my site, but a fire last fall has left the trees and meadows blackened to charcoal. I&#8217;m at high enough altitude that the temperature hardly gets out of the 50s during the day and nights are well below freezing. Last night I listened to rain and wind for several hours. This morning dawned clear and bright, but still windy.<\/p>\n<p>Above me is Mount Wheeler. Last year I road Honda all the way to the top at over 10,000 feet.  There is a campground near the top but I doubt if anyone is up there now. Looking up at all the mountains around me  confirms they are all buried under deep snow. I won&#8217;t be making any side trips on Honda this time. In fact, I&#8217;m not even going to unload him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that in a few more days I can continue to drift north. I have no objections to staying at one place for a few days but I would like warmer temperatures and cell signal. I&#8217;m still not sure whether I will go up through Nevada or scoot over into Utah and travel Interstate 15 north. By the time I post this maybe I will have made up my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I visited Great Basin NP, I found a nice, free camping spot about 5 miles from the park. The wind for the past few days has been blowing too strong to make travel pleasant, so I decided to hold up at my previous discovery until the weather returned to more normal. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}