The Road Less Traveled
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We're here in Rock Springs, about 150 miles from the Gathering and we have newly updated information about the Gathering location.
Oh boy.
It looks like we'll be headed in on a 40 mile long gravel road with a max safe speed of about 20 mph...for cars.
In reasonable consideration that is likely to be closer to 10mph (4 hours) for our RV.
Once we find the parking location, it is rumored to be a 3 hour hike to the campsites.
This changes a lot of things.
First, a 3 hour hike for an able bodied adult is not a three hour hike for a family of four, complete with infant.
Second, a three hour hike from our RV to the Gathering means we will not be camping on our RV during the gathering if we would like to take part in the Gathering. We will have to tent camp on site at Kid-Village. This means, we are not supplied properly and we will have to take our family and three weeks of camping supplies on that 3 hour hike.
It looks like we are going to be held up here in Rock Springs for at least a day trying to gather supplies and plan. We will then have to hit the road early in the morning because we will have 6+ hours of driving because of road conditions. We will then be camping in the Gathering parking area because we will need to plan for a whole day's hike and will need to begin first thing in the morning, not late in the day after a whole day of driving.
Looks like we could still be 3 days from reaching the Gathering.
The good news is that at last count there were already over a thousand people and 5 kitchens running already at the Gathering. The Magic Hat was passed for the first time a few days ago.
We are excited and can hardly wait!
Once we do arrive we will be out of cell phone and internet range. Jeff will be hitching out to town every few days to check work, emails, etc. and I will send a post or two with him each time, but will likely have some periods of being incommunicado over the next two to three weeks.
What an adventure!!
Today we are looking into turning a kids wagon into a cart for one of our dogs to help pull some of our load up the trail. Seems that my background in dog training combined with Jeff's carpentry skills and two Great Pyrenese may be just the ticket.
This picture shows the wrong kind of cart, but I couldn't find a good picture with the right kind of cart and dog breed. Here is a pair of Pyrenees pulling a cart. Cart Pulling is the purpose of more than one breed, and a competitive sport to boot!
Oh boy.
It looks like we'll be headed in on a 40 mile long gravel road with a max safe speed of about 20 mph...for cars.
In reasonable consideration that is likely to be closer to 10mph (4 hours) for our RV.
Once we find the parking location, it is rumored to be a 3 hour hike to the campsites.
This changes a lot of things.
First, a 3 hour hike for an able bodied adult is not a three hour hike for a family of four, complete with infant.
Second, a three hour hike from our RV to the Gathering means we will not be camping on our RV during the gathering if we would like to take part in the Gathering. We will have to tent camp on site at Kid-Village. This means, we are not supplied properly and we will have to take our family and three weeks of camping supplies on that 3 hour hike.
It looks like we are going to be held up here in Rock Springs for at least a day trying to gather supplies and plan. We will then have to hit the road early in the morning because we will have 6+ hours of driving because of road conditions. We will then be camping in the Gathering parking area because we will need to plan for a whole day's hike and will need to begin first thing in the morning, not late in the day after a whole day of driving.
Looks like we could still be 3 days from reaching the Gathering.
The good news is that at last count there were already over a thousand people and 5 kitchens running already at the Gathering. The Magic Hat was passed for the first time a few days ago.
We are excited and can hardly wait!
Once we do arrive we will be out of cell phone and internet range. Jeff will be hitching out to town every few days to check work, emails, etc. and I will send a post or two with him each time, but will likely have some periods of being incommunicado over the next two to three weeks.
What an adventure!!
Today we are looking into turning a kids wagon into a cart for one of our dogs to help pull some of our load up the trail. Seems that my background in dog training combined with Jeff's carpentry skills and two Great Pyrenese may be just the ticket.
This picture shows the wrong kind of cart, but I couldn't find a good picture with the right kind of cart and dog breed. Here is a pair of Pyrenees pulling a cart. Cart Pulling is the purpose of more than one breed, and a competitive sport to boot!
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What will we do without regular updates! (Manage I guess).
I hope you manage to sort out your predicament. The cart idea is great.
Have a great time at the gathering (which I just know you will).
Love to you all
Pippa (England) x x x x
We live in Lander, WY and had wanted to attend for the first time but couldn't make it. I had no idea there was such a long hike in, so it's probably best we didn't go as we were going to make it a day trip. That's all we could go for. Anyway, hope you are enjoying yourself, and we are looking forward to hearing how things went!
Who knew dogs could be so useful?!
Your blog is interesting, from the viewpoint of an old back to the land hippie still in the mountains, but darn it is hard to read with the black type on dark green. Could you please consider going to a lighter background? I am curious about the state of modern hippiedom so looking forward to reading abour the gathering.
Urggg...so, how did it turn out? Waiting to hear that it all went ok.
J
http://adventuresinvoluntarysimplicity.blogspot.com/
If you click to view the comments, then click on Original Post at the top of the page, it shows the blog in black characters on a white background...
I still like the green background :o)
It's about time the dogs start pulling their weight and helping out around there... haha bad pun.
<3
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