I'm camped on Pinyon creek, off Onion creek road, near Independence- it's absolutely amazing beautiful, and there's no one here (so far). I have a large flat camp spot, next to the creek, in a low spot, so it's hard to see me, as if that mattered.
I saw a lot of bikepackers (like 7 or 8) starting up Onion valley rd. this morning. I wonder where they're headed. I'll explore out that way on my bike tomorrow.
As soon as I landed this morning at my camp, I was ready to write, feeling really good. Then I did just about everything but write- including watching the clouds- I coined a new phrase:
"The clouds are calling- and I must go". That's kind of me- it doesn't really make sense.
It's 5:41 and the sun is going behind the mountain. The clouds are still very cool. I'm sure they'll disipate when if comes time for alpenglow! I'm keeping my eye out the window. It was just ok. Mostly faded to gray.
The wind is pretty strong here, gusty, but I'll deal with that- no flies :)
Then today the clouds persisted, and the wind, and the snow??, yup. Not enough to stick, but there were definitely snowflakes. I allowed the weather to curtail my MTB exploring - hmm. Maybe I just didn’t' dress right. What a wimp.
I've been pondering the heater issues. Today I found a lot of air bubbles in the fuel line- that's bad, and could definitely cause the errors/ not running. But it took me a while to remember that the fuel tank is pretty low. I've kind of figured that when the light comes on, it wouldn’t draw fuel. Welp, I think that is more like, it starts to draw air as well- now that could be an issue- so I will first refill the fuel tank before digging in further- but….
I need to get a syringe to bleed the air out of the lines, and… we're going to need the heater for sure in the next few weeks, maybe just go ahead and do the destructive maintenance while I'm in the sunshine? It shouldn't take that much, and I'd have a heater that works- more certainty.
Snow falling on Onion Valley- maybe I should go for a ride?