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1 May 2018

They started working on my car after noon today.  I hung out in the lobby/breakfast room of La Quinta Inn & Suites listening to podcasts, wishing my sister-in-law Tanis an early birthday, letting my bro know about the jeep and talking with my cousin Jimmie in Greensboro.

It was an interesting way to spend 4 hours.  The phone calls were the best part. I have to say Sahara Motors is bending over backwards to help me out with my problem.  I called at 3:3o pm and asked if I should get a room in town again for the night and the manager suggested it would be a good idea.  Sahara Service Department will probably finish with the jeep right around 5 pm and that’s the closing time of the service department.  The hang up is getting all the electronic gadgets back on line – and getting me to the jeep.  I wonder if they have taxis here? I was told they want to let it sit overnight and then do a test drive tomorrow.  The manager suggested I call them around 9:30 tomorrow morning.

I called Hidden Canyon and let them  know I would be in Ely another night.  They are also very accommodating.  She said no problem.  I told her if she needed to rent the room for the third night go ahead but I really did want to spend one night at the retreat.  She said it would be vacant.  I also said charge me the minimum for cancellation if she needed to but she doesn’t seem to be so inclined.  I certainly don’t mind, but that’s how nice people are around here.

I checked the front desk at La Quinta and they put me in the room next to the one I had last night.  Again, nicety seems to be a requirement to live in Ely, Nevada.  Plus, they offer free cookies later this afternoon.

Last night I walked next door to the local grocery store and had a pasta salad and fried chicken.  Publix’ is better but this hit the spot.  I’ll probably do the same since the only walking distance place is Mickey D’s.

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When I think about it, this has probably been good for me to rest my ankle and rest myself.  The jeep screw-up on my part was bad but the down time has been nice.

I was scheduled for a tour of Lehman Caves at Great Basin at 10 pm tomorrow but looks like I’ll miss that.  I may try to reschedule since this does not seem to be their busy season.  I suspect they had a little accumulation at Great Basin since it is so high in elevation.

One interesting feature of this motel is they are very pet friendly.  I’ve seen quite a menagerie since I’ve been here.

It’ll be another early night.  I went to bed last night at 8:30 pm and waked up at 4:30 am.  Plenty of sleep.  Hope so tonight!

 

1 May 2018

The first towing company arranged by AAA did not come through.  Instead, I called the recommended towing company by Sahara Motors and they showed up 15 minutes later.  The young man worked quickly.  The biggest problem was getting the jeep in neutral without starting the engine.  That’s impossible.

Instead, I called Jeep Assistance and they walked us through how to put the vehicle in neutral without starting up the jeep.  You have to lift the center console of the jeep, pull out a panel, pull a string attached to a lever and shift a lock to the left.  Unbelievably complicated!

He quickly got the jeep loaded and was nice enough to drive me to my motel.  He also helped me unload my luggage and bags from the jeep and took the jeep to Sahara Motors.  I tipped him extravagantly for his efforts.  He really went above and beyond the necessary.

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I’ve pestered Carl for the last two days.  He’s always been courteous, willing to listen, and willing to work with me in any way he can.  I have to admit I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with everyone in Ely, Nevada.  Even the parts guy at NAPA helped out with the loading of the jeep on the tow truck.

The real question remains if there was any damage to the jeep.  There are some horror stories on the internet about my situation so I apparently am not the only idiot on the planet with this problem.  I’ll perhaps know something more around noon.

My plan is to continue my reservations at Hidden Canyon Retreat and do the Lehman Caves tour at Great Basin National Park tomorrow.  Again, keep your fingers crossed for me!

30 April 2018

A semi-disastrous day.  I made it to Hidden Canyon Retreat around 12:00 noon Pacific Time and no one was in the office.  They only open the office between 2:30 pm and 8:30 pm.  I turned around to head to town to buy groceries when either one of the owners or a staff member saw me and stopped.

He said they were still making up the rooms and I told him that was OK, I was heading into Delta, Utah to purchase groceries and Diesel Exhaust Fluid.  He wanted to know what that was.  I explained and he said Ely, Nevada was closer (about an hour’s drive) and that they had a NAPA store.  That was perfect, so I changed my direction to Ely.

I found a grocery store on the way in and marked it to buy groceries on the way out.  I also found a gas station to top off the tank with diesel for tomorrow.  I then found the NAPA store and they had the BlueDEF that I normally use.

Here is where everything went to hell.  I purchased 4 gallons and started to fill the tank with the DEF.  In essence, DEF serves a similar function to a catalytic converter but is used instead of one.  If you don’t maintain the appropriate level, the engine will not start.  I was low but not out and I thought it best to go ahead and fill the system.

Unfortunately, where you add diesel fuel there is also another capped structure for DEF.  In addition to adding DEF to the jeep, you should also add a diesel additive that keeps the system running clean.  The additive is added directly to the diesel tank.  DEF goes in a separate capped tank.  Guess what I did?

I added about 1/2 gallon of DEF directly to the diesel tank.  I at least had sense to stop and fill the appropriate tank.  I even had more sense to not start the jeep.

I used the internet to see what the consequences would be.  The answer is (1) don’t start the engine (2) drain the fuel tank (3) drain the diesel fuel conditioning module (4) flush the fuel system and (5) replace the fuel filters – two of them or you can destroy the engine.

DEF has in it urea and is very corrosive.  It is also more dense than diesel fluid so it sinks to the bottom of the diesel tank.  It has to be removed.

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Next I had to get a tow.  I have the 911 and Assist feature on the jeep (I just renewed it before I left Fort Lauderdale) and I hit the Assist button.  They took it from there and contacted a tow truck and notified the jeep dealership.

The tow truck was going to take 3 hours and the dealership closed at 5.  I wasn’t going to make it.  I talked to Carl in Service and he said the tow company was one they used and they would know where to leave the jeep overnight.

I then remembered I had platinum membership with AAA.  I’ve had this since 2013 and figured I might need it some day.  I called them and they had a different tow truck company that was free as far as costs.  I canceled the other tow and I’m now waiting for Denny’s Towing.  Apparently it is a very busy day in the tow business.  AAA said 1 hour for the tow but the text the tow company sent said 2 1/2 hours.  They are supposed to be here around 4:22 pm Mountain Time (Ely is in Mountain zone, Hidden Canyon in Pacific).

I then needed a rental car.  There are n in o rental car companies in Ely.  They all went out of business a couple of years ago.  I called Hidden Canyon and canceled the night.  They will hold tomorrow and Wednesday for me and she said she would be willing to work with me about tomorrow.

I made reservations at La Quinta Inn & Suites in Ely.  There were cheaper rooms but they were all at casinos and I don’t want to put up with that.  Now, if only the tow driver arrives, if he’ll give me a ride to La Quinta, and if they can service the jeep tomorrow, it won’t be too much of a disaster – except for the repair bill.

On a brighter note, on  my trip down US93 from Wells, I saw a jackrabbit running down the road.  It actually looked like an adult jackrabbit and a baby.  When I got close enough, it was a coyote chasing the jackrabbit.  I think I saved the jackrabbit’s life.

I also saw two bald eagles and a golden eagle.  Hopefully they had a better day than I – except the hungry c0yote.

 

30 April 2018

Yesterday, after publishing the day’s blog, I decided to check the alerts of the next two parks after Great Basin: Capitol Reef and Black Canyon of the Gunnison.   The NPS often tells you any road closures, wildfires, bear alerts, etc.

The Capitol Reef alert took me aback.  It said that as of February 2018 they were taking campsite reservations through recreation.gov.  This was news to me.  When I planned the trip to Capitol Reef, they were not taking campground reservations at all.  Even more concerning is all of my campground reservations with national parks have been made through recreation.gov and you would think that since I’ve made so many reservations through them, they would have notified people who are registered with them of this change. Not so.

In any case, I immediately went to recreation.gov to make reservations and of course, they were booked.  That led me to check Black Canyon of the Gunnison and they had changed also. One campsite did take reservations now and two others were no reservations.  The one campsite you could reserve was also full.

Not wishing to be locked out of a place to stay to see Capitol Reef, I made motel reservations at the nearest place (8.8 miles from the park) and decided to do the same at Black Canyon of the Gunnison even though they have sites with no reservations.  My reasoning is if the site you can reserve is filled, the odds are by the time I get to the park in the late afternoon, all the non-reserved sites will be taken.  Who would have thought the parks would be so filled in early May?
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Best laid plans…. It’s an added expense.  Most of the hotels in and around Capitol Reef (at least those you in which would deign to stay) run $160-180 per night indicating that they are now in season with higher rates.  At least for Black Canyon of the Gunnison I was able to find a motel fairly economical with my Choice rewards package.

The only place I’ve been so far with unused campsites was Craters of the Moon, and I suspect it’s because most people have never heard of it and it’s a national monument, not a national park.

There are other options.  The Bureau of Land Management allows camping and so does the National Forestry Service.  Then there’s always the private campgrounds.  However, at this late date, I opted for the motels for insurance.

That leaves me with only two more parks where I will be camping: Theodore Roosevelt and Isle Royale.

29 April 2018

What’s the saying?  “Discretion is the better part of valor.”  The last two nights were very windy.  It was pretty steady at 24 mph with higher gusts.  If I had know it was in the forecast, I would not have put the big tent up but the smaller one.  There’s too much surface area on the big tent.  A couple of times I thought I might set sail.

The wind was a harbinger.  I waked to a weather alert for a fast moving snow storm for today and tomorrow in the higher elevations above 5000 feet.  The only problem was that I was already at 5000+.  They predicted 8-12 inches in the passes, so I took Falstaff’s saying to heart and packed up the tent and camp and was on the road to Baker, Nevada by 8:30 am.

I didn’t intend to make it to Baker today.  I was looking for some place in between Arco, Idaho and Baker and I ended up in Wells, Nevada – a cross roads between US93 and I-80.  As I pulled into town, I was greeted by billboards touting their houses of legalized prostitution.  You don’t see that on Florida billboards!

The town has, as best as I can tell, two major casinos and several smaller ones.  Every small bump in the road in Idaho and Nevada has casinos.  The locals can’t possibly keep these financially afloat so I can only assume tourist traffic later in the year is where they make their money.  Tourists come for the national parks, forests, recreation areas, monuments, and state parks.  I wonder if the Department of Interior knows they are subsidizing  gambling on a large scale?
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Tonight is a Super8 in Wells.  It’s not really so super – it’s showing its age.  However, the room is spacious, the bath is clean, and as a TripAdvisor reviewer said, “no bedbugs”.  I always check just in case, but for $60 a night, it’ll do.

I really intended to stay and third night at Craters and I did miss my cave hikes, but I just didn’t like the idea of being snowed in.  As I drove south on US93, I ran into rain and snow showers and you could look at the mountain ranges around and see it was getting more than flurries.  Time will tell if I made the right decision.

Tomorrow is Hidden Canyon Retreat in Baker, Nevada.  I have three nights there for Great Basin National Park.  I’m not sure how much of a retreat it is but you get emailed instructions not to rely on GPS.  Instead, you are told to approach via Garrison, Utah, pass through the town and take the dirt road off to the right.  This should be interesting.

There is no phone service but they do have wifi but it is said to be very slow.  I’ll try to get my blog out every night as usual if the wifi doesn’t crash.

28 April 2018

Today marks the half-way point time wise  of my trip – 40 days with 41 to go.  We’ll count it even by this afternoon.  It’s been a great experience so far even though it has been with a little pain and effort and extra expense.  

Today, I waked to 46F after some light showers during the night.  The long underwear came in very handy and so did the extra blanket.  I was eating breakfast (freeze dried eggs with ham and peppers – yum) by 7:30 am and on my first trail by 8:30 am.  I pretty much had the hiking trails to myself except for one young man in a bright red windbreaker.  I met him on the Lava Flow Trail and he either tailed me or I tailed him for the trail.  

Whoever does the interpretive signs for this park is brilliant.  It’s the best geology lesson I’ve ever had.  Usually these signs are quite boring but I stopped and read every one of them.  The interpretive ranger went out of their way to explain what you were seeing in clear, concise language and also made a point of where mistakes were made by the past park staff in trying to protect the park’s features.  There were several places where the signs asked questions of the reader to provoke thought.  For example, how would you prevent people from going off trail? This certainly reinforced the idea of not straying off the marked trail.

There are two types of lava flows in the park.  Pāhoehoe and ‘a’ā.  Both are derived from Hawaiian terms for lava.  Pāhoehoe lava is more liquid and when solidified forms a smoother, rope-like surface.  

‘a’ā is a rougher type of lava.  Both are abundant in the park.

One startling feature of the park are the Limber Pines (Pinus flexus).  One has been dated in the park to 1350 years old and the lava from which it grows is over 2000 years old.  

After the Lava Flow Trail (0.5 miles round trip), I traveled the loop road.  My first stop was Devil’s Orchard.  It’s a rough, rugged looking place and was supposedly named by a local clergyman. You can walk a paved 0.5 mile loop through some pretty startling scenery.

After getting out of Devil’s Orchard, I jumped into the fire with Inferno Cinder Cone.  It’s only 0.4 miles round trip up the cone and back but the hike is labeled as strenuous.  It’s worth the hike.  

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As I was making my way down, I met the guy in the red wind breaker again.  I wondered how he got there since he didn’t have a car in the parking lot.  You might be able to see his silhouette against the cone in the picture below.

My next stop was the Spatter Cones.  According to the film in the visitor center, these begin to form as the eruption of the volcano begins to cease.  They are hollow on the inside.

It was here I figured how the red windbreaker guy got to Inferno without a vehicle.  He had hiked the entire lava flow trail which ends at the Spatter Cones.  Mystery solved.  I assume he had to walk back to the campsites or either retrace his steps on the trail from where he came.

My last stop was Tree Molds Trail.  To be honest, at the end of the one mile trail, there were two unimpressive tree molds – where trees had been captured by the lava and left indentations as they rotted.  However, the hike proved to be quite spectacular with overlooks of the entire valley.

Tonight, I intend to head into town (18 miles one way) and have dinner.  Tomorrow, I hope to do two cave walks.  They are not really caves but simply lava tubes.  They sound pretty interesting. 

I had to get a permit from the visitor center which basically entailed them asking me if I had been in any caves lately.  They are concerned about white nose syndrome in their bats. Since I had been in Carlsbad and in two caves in the Pinnacles, I was told not to wear any clothing from either of those trips.  I’ll take my bike helmet – recommended to protect your head – and my super strong flashlight.  Hopefully, I won’t slip and fall on my sore ankle again.

It’s been a very windy day.  My tent is blowing in the breeze and a couple of tent pegs came out of the ground.  One is missing.  I can only assume a crow or raven decided it was a new trinket.  

27 April 2018

I seem to be jinxed on motels.  The Quality Inn was fine as far as furnishings but it was popular with construction personnel.  They started with the beer in the lobby about 7 pm.  My room was two doors down from the lobby.  As they kept popping tops, they kept getting louder.  I finally called the front desk around 9:45 pm and asked how long it was going to go on.  

She promised she would look into it.  It seems she was part of the party.  I kept hearing her voice with the construction workers.  I finally had to turn on the fan to the AC/Heater on full.  Unfortunately, that meant there was no heat in the room.  The full on for the fan meant you could not select heat or ac.  I did get a little sleep but I think it must have run on until around 1 am.  

Quiet is not a quality for the Quality Inn.  I was awake at 6 am and the day people were as loud as the construction workers.  It didn’t bother me but I wonder about those guests who wished to sleep in.  They would shout back and forth to each other as they went about their duties.  

I was on the road to Craters of the Moon by 8:30 am.  The GPS said it was an 8 hour drive.  It took me 10.  About half way to the park, the GPS conks out and shows me traveling over the plains, mountain ranges, and across rivers where there is no bridge.  Perhaps that’s why the park service says don’t rely on the GPS.  

I pulled into the park after 6 pm.  I accidentally pulled into a camping space thinking it was the road through the campground and fortuitously found the most level space in the entire park to put up the big tent.  The ground is volcanic cinders and it makes a nice camping surface.

My next door neighbor is Randy who just went from temporary park service personnel to full time at Yellowstone.  He’s very happy.  He’s worked temp with the NPS for 16 years and just got the full time job.  I invited him over for a glass of cheap Merlot and we talked about the parks we’ve been to.  He heads back to Yellowstone tomorrow.  I’m glad someone is getting hired full time these days with the NPS.  

I have to admit Idaho is nicer in scenery than I anticipated.  There were a couple of places on the drive down through the state that you had huge rock formations and canyons you drove through.  Then you had beautiful mountain ranges on either side of you.  
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Tomorrow I plant to hit the visitor center and then drive the loop road and do a few short hikes.  I’ll also probably ask for a cave permit to do some of the caves the next day.  I may also try a strenuous hike on the second day if my ankle lets me.  We’ll see.  

It’s supposed to be down to 46F tonight so I suspect I’ll be wearing long johns before I turn it for the night!

Post Script

It rained a little last night and the wind was pretty wild but the tent stayed up and I stayed dry.  I also stayed warm.  I slept in my long johns.

 

26 April 2018

It was a short day of driving – 4 hours.  However, it was a little longer of a day at the end of the drive.  I found a place that had comparable tires to the ones I now have on the jeep at about the same price quoted earlier when I was in Tacoma.  The person I talked to was Jeff with Findlay Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge/Ram dealership in Post Falls, Idaho, just outside of Coeur D’Alene.  

The new tires are General Grabber HTS60 265/50R20.  The old tires were Goodyear Fontera HL 265/50R20.  The parts guy said the new tires are rated at 65,000 miles and the Goodyear Fontera are rated at 60,000.  I checked and he is correct.  He also stated he put a set on his Dad’s truck and his son’s truck – a good sales line.

I did check out reviews on the new tires and they receive an excellent rating on wet and dry pavement and a good rating on snow.  Since I have tire chains to fit the size of the tire, good in snow is good enough.  Even though I had a little more mileage left on the old tires, I was uncomfortable trying to finish the trip on them.  One tire already had a radial patch from almost two years ago, so that made me even more leery. 

It was nice of them to call ahead and have the tires delivered from the warehouse and then work me in.  I know it’s money in their pocket ($953.94 with alignment) but they were very nice and professional.  I now feel safer on the road.

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Jeff said he had been a tire salesman for many years and he had never heard of my request before.  When I explained, he said that’s taken care of in the balancing.  I didn’t reply that the balancing also depended on the skill of the technician and there are some dishonest places out there that will sell you an out-of-round tire and not tell you.  In any case, they all passed the wobble test. 

The balancing and installation (and valve stems) took about 3 hours and the alignment took another hour, so I was in the waiting room for 4 hours.  In any case, I’m good to go.  One thing I noticed was the alignment guy wrote that after I finish the trip and remove the cargo box and all the stuff in the back, I probably should have the alignment rechecked.  Interesting.

Tonight I am at the Quality Inn in Coeur D’Alene for one night.  It is either a 7.5 or 8.5 hour drive tomorrow to Craters of the Moon National Monument.  The NPS writes on their web site to not trust your GPS to get you to the park.  I have a feeling this is a remote place.  

There are no reservations at the campground – it’s first come, first serve, so I will either be glamping at the campsite or grumping in a motel 18 miles away.  Either way will work as long as I get to do some hiking.  

There’s a very good possibility you will not hear from me for 3 days after today.

24 April 2018

Service to Stehekin by the Lady Express is Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Since today is Tuesday, the town was literally dead.  The restaurant and general store are closed.  However, parking was at a premium.  For some reason, there seems to be a lot of people taking up the 7 day limit parking spaces in town and yet I don’t see any visitors.

I decided to get an early start so I was on the trail by 8:30 am.  I wanted to hike a ways on the Lakeshore Trail.  The trail is 17 miles long (to Morgan Point) but most people only hike sections of it.  I decided to walk until my ankle let me know it was time to turn around.  

For some reason, this trail is not played up too much.  I found it one of the best trails of my trip thus far.  The scenery was stunning and the wildflowers were in full riot.  

There was the orange and red of paint brush, the blue of phacelia, and white of the western dogwood.  

You could not have picked a better early morning walk.  The only drawback was the sign at the ranger station that said to watch out for the Pacific Coast Rattlesnake.  It stated that the snake was not aggressive (glad to know that) but you need to watch where you put your hands and feet.  It suggested parents make their children follow behind them.  I would have suggested letting the children go out front and scare the snakes away.  I suspect it was a little too cold for them early in the morning.
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I stopped around 1.7 miles and decided to return to Stehekin.  The return walk was equally beautiful with another “snapshot” moment around every bend.

Next I decided to to the short 0.2 mile Imus Loop.  It starts by steadily ascending and then leveling out about the lodges and restaurant, and then descending back onto the road in Stehekin.  

It was not as spectacular as the Lakeshore Trail but satisfying.  I think I’m getting into the hang of this with the elevation.  Now if my ankle will only cooperate and stop bugging me about a mile and a half, I could really get into this hiking stuff.

Tomorrow, I pack up and leave Stehekin. Check out time in the cabin is 10:30 am and the boat arrives at 1:30 pm.  It should put me back in Chelan around 4 pm.  I have a room for one night and then I travel to Coeur D’Alene, Idaho.  It’s one night there then three nights of camping at Craters of the Moon Natural Monument.