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[DianaCox]

We're going off on our first multi-night jaunt. Leaving my daughter in charge of the house and cats - she will be moving back into our house temporarily on Sept. 1st, as the lease on the house across the street is up, so she owes us.

I am getting ridiculously excited about a 4 night trip to an overdeveloped park in Gold Country (we won't have a car, so we aren't going too far outside the campground) - I need to figure out the internet/work thing. W're planning meals, new "stuff" for the RV to make it a little more comfortable (extra blanket), and the TV/DVD situation.

Charles is a Game of Thrones fan. I am not. He has bought all the episodes, and he plans to binge-(re)watch them, and to get me hooked. Sounds like camping fun!

Oh yeah - it will be our 16th wedding anniversary next week while we're away.

 

[hilary1617]

Happy anniversary and have a great trip!

 

[DianaCox]

Charles just left to drive down to the storage yard to pick up Sallie (that's what he's named her - I like it - as we leave on our trips, I can say, "Let's Sallie forth!") - he's going to fill up at Costco before the store opens and it gets crazy there, and we'll park it in front of the house for the next two days to clean it up from the last trip, stock it with food and drink, and just enjoy that it is annoying our asshole neighbors.

We're thinking of taking our bikes on this trip - we'll have to lug them into the RV and stuff them in the bedroom, since we don't have a bike rack - we figured we'd wait to buy the toad/dinghy car first, and get a rack that fits on that, so in the meantime, we have to do it that way. I am unreasonably excited about this.

 

[jillc]

Jealous! I haven't been camping at all this summer. Have a great time!

Hopefully, if the rig shuts down for 3 weeks after this hole like it's supposed to, I can get to Waterton and do some tenting before it gets too cold....Love camping there. It's a small National Park that borders with Glacier and there are some easy trails and hard trails. But I might just camp, read, write and recharge. Roast some hot dogs over an open fire.

It's just over an hour's drive from my home. Unfortunately my favorite campground will be closed by then

 

[DianaCox]

Jealous! I haven't been camping at all this summer. Have a great time!

Hopefully, if the rig shuts down for 3 weeks after this hole like it's supposed to, I can get to Waterton and do some tenting before it gets too cold....Love camping there. It's a small National Park that borders with Glacier and there are some easy trails and hard trails. But I might just camp, read, write and recharge. Roast some hot dogs over an open fire.

It's just over an hour's drive from my home. Unfortunately my favorite campground will be closed by then

Now that we're getting the hang of handling the RV, I'm going to start planning a trip for late spring/early summer next year. I want to visit the national parks around Yellowstone/Glacier and into Canada, so it sounds like your Waterton park should be something we look into as a stop! Maybe we can meet up there.

 

[jillc]

That sounds great @DianaCox - Waterton and Glacier border on each other. I could probably come down to Glacier also as long as I'm off the rig.

There's a hike that I usually do every year that you start on the Canadian side and hike over into the American side around Waterton Lake and then you take a boat back - I think it would have killed me this year as I'm so unfit right now. It's The hike is about 14 km/8.5 miles.

 

[DianaCox]

That sounds great @DianaCox - Waterton and Glacier border on each other. I could probably come down to Glacier also as long as I'm off the rig.

There's a hike that I usually do every year that you start on the Canadian side and hike over into the American side around Waterton Lake and then you take a boat back - I think it would have killed me this year as I'm so unfit right now. It's The hike is about 14 km/8.5 miles.

Wow - that hike sounds fun - is there a lot of up and down, or just walking? That would be a great goal for us to aim at being fit enough to do (Charles will be 63 by then and I just turned 61), if it isn't ridiculously hard.

 

[jillc]

No, after the first incline at the beginning it's undulating - so there's some elevation but it's not majorly uphill. The great thing is we can buy tickets for the latest boat and set off early in the am. They'll let you on an earlier boat no problem. That's what I do just in case I run into problems. Beautiful views throughout of the lake, too.

 

[JackieOnLine]

I hope you guys have a lot of fun.

Gold Country

is that the same as "The Sierras" ? I have very little sense of that part of the country and here I am contemplating moving to Carson City.

 

[DianaCox]

I hope you guys have a lot of fun.
is that the same as "The Sierras" ? I have very little sense of that part of the country and here I am contemplating moving to Carson City.

It's the foothills of the Sierras: http://www.49ervillage.com/
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/37....5,-122.0431447,9z/data=!4m3!4m2!1m0!1m0?hl=en

No, after the first incline at the beginning it's undulating - so there's some elevation but it's not majorly uphill. The great thing is we can buy tickets for the latest boat and set off early in the am. They'll let you on an earlier boat no problem. That's what I do just in case I run into problems. Beautiful views throughout of the lake, too.

I googled some info about the park and the trail - just LOVELY! We are definitely going to put that on our wishful itinerary!

 

[jillc]

I googled some info about the park and the trail - just LOVELY! We are definitely going to put that on our wishful itinerary!

I'm biased but I totally agree. I love Waterton. One of the reasons I love it is that the town can't get any bigger. Development is limited because there's only a little land between the mountains and the lake. So it will always be a small town.

 

[Elizabeth N.]

Wow - that hike sounds fun - is there a lot of up and down, or just walking? That would be a great goal for us to aim at being fit enough to do (Charles will be 63 by then and I just turned 61), if it isn't ridiculously hard.

Make sure you thoroughly acclimate yourselves to altitude before you try to do that. It generally takes me about two weeks of almost-daily walking with minimal incline--at about a mile above sea level--to be ready to try anything hilly.

If you can go to the foothills or someplace a little more mountainous off and on between now and then, so that you experience some exertion at different altitudes--get up to at least 4,000 feet if possible--you should have a much shorter acclimation. Ask your docs, too, just to be sure. I have zero altitude change options where I am, to speak of, so I have to start off slower.

 

[DianaCox]

I'm assuming that by the time we get to Glacier and Waterton, we will have been on the road for at least a couple of weeks already, some at altitude - but point taken. Charles' 40+ years of smoking will be a year behind him by then (I hope) and while I also have smoked most of the time since I was 18, I never was a more than 5 cig/day smoker, and I've quit too, so I hope our oxygenation won't be an issue. And that we have cell phone access to Canadian 911 just in case!

 

[Munchkin]

Hope you are having a great trip and Happy Anniversary!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Table 2-07

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2014/chapter-2-the-pre-travel-consultation/altitude-illness

I have some of that stuff...never took it, though.