[Rockhounds] Accommodations (Was: Vehicles)

[Alan Silverstein]

> ...weirdest, most primitive (or high-end), most dangerous or coolest
> place that members have camped, boarded or otherwise racked out during
> a rockhound trip.

Well I've slept on mountaintops 23 times, mostly 13K-14K' elevation in
Colorado, but those were "hiking trips," not mainly rockhounding trips.

My oddest overnight during primary rockhounding must have been...  In my
car, reclined in the driver's seat; along with maybe 8 other people in
4-5 other cars, all huddled up in rain and wind so long and intense that
even a tent was a bad idea; up high on the Delaney Rim, just south of
I80 in Wyoming south of Wamsutter, on the south edge of the Red Desert /
Great Divide Basin (of the continental divide).

The cars all had condensation running down the insides by morning; 110%
humidity.  But cold and wet wasn't the worst of it.  The mud road had
turned into a virtual tarpit.  We very slowly and carefully made our way
west several miles to the Tipton switchbacks and down several more miles
to the interstate.  Vehicle undersides and wheelwells were terminally
caked with goo.  It took me $6, I think, to get the worst of it off at a
manual carwash in Rawlins.

Cheers,
Alan Silverstein