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Elemental Camping Test #1: Successful
Aug. 24th, 2008 08:22 pmOne of the most striking things about camping out in the redwoods is how utterly quiet it can be, especially just after dawn or just before dusk, when the wind is still. Mind you, that wasn't the case yesterday at dinner time ... but I get ahead of myself.
Sure enough, I went in to work at 4am Friday to observe a Certain Process in the purification department, only to have that process not occur until 7:30am. Well, nobody's fault -- these things are a bit hard to predict, and I got a nice lot of work done at my desk with nobody else around in the mean time, and it did mean that I got out of there conveniently early. But the theory that leaving town by 2pm (on a non-pre-holiday Friday) would mean avoiding rush hour traffic was, shall we say, mistaken. Still and all, since I got into my campsite (Hidden Springs Campground, Humboldt Redwoods State Park) while still light, despite having stopped for dinner along the way, we'll count it a success. ( Since the rest of this is going to be image-heavy, I'll put it behind a cut )
Sure enough, I went in to work at 4am Friday to observe a Certain Process in the purification department, only to have that process not occur until 7:30am. Well, nobody's fault -- these things are a bit hard to predict, and I got a nice lot of work done at my desk with nobody else around in the mean time, and it did mean that I got out of there conveniently early. But the theory that leaving town by 2pm (on a non-pre-holiday Friday) would mean avoiding rush hour traffic was, shall we say, mistaken. Still and all, since I got into my campsite (Hidden Springs Campground, Humboldt Redwoods State Park) while still light, despite having stopped for dinner along the way, we'll count it a success. ( Since the rest of this is going to be image-heavy, I'll put it behind a cut )
