1998 Northern Rockies Trip

Our Lahontan camp site

From Mark's "Book of Doom":
Day 1: Saturday May 16th near Silver Springs, NV.
Drove out to the middle of Nowwhere, NV. Set up camp in Lahotan park. Found a nice campsite next to the lake. Temperature not too bad when out of the wind. Got started a little late this morning due to oversleep on my part (mental note: always set an alarm, no matter what time we need to leave).
Ran into a little snow in the sierras, as well as an insane tail-gating truck driver.
One "skull" for Steph for not bringing the Nevada campbook.

First, in my defense, I had AAA camp and tour books for every stated we visited. I honestly thought that Nevada was included in the California book as it once was. (BTW- at least as of 2003, Nevada is included in the Northern California Camp Book. LESSON: When gathering AAA --or other-- materials for a large trip, make sure that you collect NEW versions of all materials and make sure there are no gaps due to changes in format from one edition to the next!)

Second, it wasn't all that cold. These boys apparently had no idea what cold was really gonna be like on this trip. They learned in a hurry after this.

The place was very quiet and deserted. Well... except for in the early morning when some giant gakity-gakity-gakity bird started trying to break into the tin of cookies that had been left out (though tightly covered) while making this heinously loud gakity-gakity-gakity noise.

After recovering from our gakity-gakity-gakity bird-induced heart attacks, we saddled up and headed out for Idaho and Craters of the Moon. Overnight, Scott also discovered that his sleeping bag had been in storage just a little too long. It started to disintegrate as soon as he started to climb into it!