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Subject:Re: Heading into hell (up 395) -- any last words of advice?
From:BA
Date:Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:51:21 -0700

Hi, Squirrel,

Check road conditions before you go!!!  Wildfire in the Bishop area
starting, I think, yesterday.

We camped at the Silverlake campground at June Lake.  It's a glorious
area, but the Silverlake campground itself has no shade (we were there
in early spring).

B&S
'87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc'
SoCal

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 14:07:46 -0700, you wrote:

>So tomorrow morning at 4am PDT, I'm leaving Carlsbad, CA and heading
>north. First on I-15, then onto highway 395 to points north. The
>National Weather Service tells me that by the time I get to Bishop, CA
>(lunch-time-ish) the temps will be in the 100's and breaking records. My
>original plan was to get to Deadman Canyon (near Lee Vining) in the
>afternoon, but the heat may melt me.
>
>Where around Bishop (other than a motel) might a fellow camp that would
>not be totally sun-blasted nor require climbing so many thousands of
>feet of elevation that his Westy might overheat?