Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
You got lucky with that shelter.
A scout leader several decades ago taught me to be content with a tarp pitched as a lean to.
I did the ACA Big Bend trip in Apr 2018, one morning the water bottle on my bike was half frozen. I took the photo below that morning, the two guides are the two in yellow and red jackets.
Fortunately, no wind that morning.
Heh. That photo reminds me of our morning in Republic, WA. I burned the crap out of my finger cooking the group dinner the night before. Had a giant blister. We were all bundled up eating breakfast when it started to snow. We had gotten rained and snowed on crossing the Cascades a few days before, so we were all nervous. Fortunately, it only lasted about 5 minutes.
Crossed Sherman Pass that morning. I was so slow breaking camp because of my finger that I was the last one on the road besides our leader. I got snowed on during the descent, but I saw a big moose. That helped my mood. Most of us got rooms that night at Benny’s Collville Inn.
It was the second week of the trip, but we already sensed that our leader was inept. I was stopped at an interpretive sign climbing Sherman. They asked me if the guy behind me towing a trailer was with us. They were concerned because he was walking.