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Cincydawg

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #490 on: August 30, 2020, 12:07:47 PM »
I've mentioned before that it's a nice trip to fly into LV and drive up into Utah for however long you can stay, it won't be long enough probably.  LV is cheap as a place to start, whether you stay there at all is optional of course.

WE flew in once and drove up US 395 and across Tioga Pass and back down, also a very nice drive.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #491 on: August 30, 2020, 12:27:23 PM »
There is a remote dirt road down to the North Rim that starts near Zion. You can drive up to the edge and it overlooks the most difficult portion of the Colorado River to raft, the part with all of the rapids.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #492 on: August 31, 2020, 01:34:50 PM »
When we did Zion and Bryce, we launched from Vegas, which was interesting with kids who were pre-teens. We stayed off the strip, but close to it (since the airport is there), and we visited the strip just to show the kids. Another cool thing was visiting the Hoover Dam (particularly in that I was working for Bechtel at the time). 

We were going to go to Arches this year for Spring Break--taking the train from California out there (we have friends who want to host us in Moab), then flying home (after a day of Spring skiing at Park City). Alas, COVID-19 made for different plans. We're hoping to do the same trip next Spring. I was pretty excited about the Amtrak portion of the trip (sleeper car, going over the Sierra in the afternoon, and into the Rockies in the morning.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #493 on: August 31, 2020, 04:36:07 PM »
We hit Guardsmans Pass in Utah in October, that was seriously pretty, aside from the power lines.  Yellow trees everywhere and great views.

We were staying in Park City.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #494 on: September 01, 2020, 12:13:26 PM »
Highway 395 is pretty interesting in California. Mono Lake, the ghost town of Bodie, Bridgeport, the Marine Corps winter training center,... All good stuff. And because it's on the eastern side of the Sierra, it's less traveled.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #495 on: September 01, 2020, 04:02:49 PM »
Yeah, I drove the Sonoma Pass road once by the Marine Winter Training Center.  They had a sign "26% grade ahead".  I didn't believe it.  I do now.

The road was just asphalt laid over rock, no grading.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #496 on: September 02, 2020, 11:53:58 AM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on September 01, 2020, 12:13:26 PM
Highway 395 is pretty interesting in California. Mono Lake, the ghost town of Bodie, Bridgeport, the Marine Corps winter training center,... All good stuff. And because it's on the eastern side of the Sierra, it's less traveled.
It's an unheralded drive I think, and the lodging is cheap as a result.  There is a long gap in roads traversing the Sierra south of Tioga Pass as you know.  Much of the scenery is quite "scenic", and it's accessible from LV via Death Valley, which is worth seeing as well I think.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #497 on: September 02, 2020, 01:18:47 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 02, 2020, 11:53:58 AM
It's an unheralded drive I think, and the lodging is cheap as a result.  There is a long gap in roads traversing the Sierra south of Tioga Pass as you know.  Much of the scenery is quite "scenic", and it's accessible from LV via Death Valley, which is worth seeing as well I think.

Odd, having mostly lived in CA since 2001, and I've only gone up that direction once, and then only as far as Mammoth. I was behind the wheel of a rented RV, so I didn't have much time to actually "sightsee" while driving...

I need to find an excuse to head that direction.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #498 on: September 02, 2020, 01:27:41 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 01, 2020, 04:02:49 PM
Yeah, I drove the Sonoma Pass road once by the Marine Winter Training Center.  They had a sign "26% grade ahead".  I didn't believe it.  I do now.

The road was just asphalt laid over rock, no grading.
Wino.

108 is the Sonora Pass. The mining part of California, not the wine grape part. :-)
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #499 on: September 02, 2020, 01:30:06 PM »
Yeah, that's right of course, I knew something was amiss.  Still super neat weird road.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #500 on: September 02, 2020, 01:31:29 PM »
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #501 on: September 02, 2020, 01:32:34 PM »


sfbadger and mrs irish no doubt ...
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #502 on: September 02, 2020, 01:33:36 PM »


When I took it ...
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #503 on: September 02, 2020, 01:37:05 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 02, 2020, 01:30:06 PM
Yeah, that's right of course, I knew something was amiss.  Still super neat weird road.
Everything you say is clearly lies. ;-)

Did I say it above? I've vacationed a lot (camping, backpacking, and family-reunioning in cabins/houses) off of Highway 108 (the Sonora Pass). Most, but not all, on the west side. My family spent the better part of a decade camping there every summer. I took two of the most memorable backpacking trips ever there (the most memorable being the one with my dad when I graduated college). And over the last two decades my mom's family has rented houses in Twain Harte almost every year for about a week around Independence Day. And a friend of ours moved to the city of Sonora a few years back. She's not there anymore, but it was fun to see her when we went up there. There's also a decent, less expensive ski resort, and one of my best law school buddies is from there.
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