April 2017 – Harry Lange

Spring Training Wrap Up – Thursday April 13, 2017

We had a great spring training trip. We will be leaving again around May 18, 19 or 20th for Yellowstone and a month of fishing in Montana.

Motor home drive 3170 miles
Pickup 1338 miles
Gas Pricing
High $2.85 in Enumclaw
$2.71 Las Vegas
Low $2.20 on CA-AZ border
Used 471.88 gallons of gas

Home at The Big House, WA – Wednesday April 12, 2017

Today’s drive.

We did stop in Richland to visit with Jack Garcia and his family.
We got to the big house at 5:35 p.m.

Hermiston Rest Stop – Tuesday April 11, 2017

Today’s drive

Quick overnight on our way to the big house.

Farewell Bend State Park, OR – Monday April 10, 2017

Today’s drive started out cold with a few clouds. Heading west we soon had the clouds drop down on us and start snowing.

This is today’s drive to Farewell Bend State Park.

Got site 74, pull through with a little view of the river.

Nice spring day.

Connors Pass, NM – Rest Stop by Hayspur Fish Hatchery, ID – April 9, 2017

Today’s drive.

Yes these pictures are very much the same. They are both pictures of Harry driving on ICE and SNOW on the 9th of April.
This is one of the many passes on Hwy 50, we are just East of Ely, NV.

Driving up the pass their was a semi stopped in the road just before the top of the pass. I was able to drive around him when I discovered the ice and snow on the road which stopped him. The road is a 6 to 7% grade and I guess he was going so slow when he got to the ice he was unable to keep moving.

We were early enough to get a spot to stop. This was a good time for breakfast and wait for the road to clear. We got to the top at 8:00 a.m. and the first two sand truck came through at 8:10. They several passes blading the ice and dumping a lot of salt and sand on the road. By 9:00 the road was melted (about an inch of ice) and the Highway Patrol stopped to say the road was clear going east.

The plan was to spend the night at Hayspur Hatchery Campground, however the campground was closed. It is a one lane road into the hatchery and campground and with the campground closed I only had limited options to turn around. I needed up having to unhook the pickup to get turned around.

We ended at a rest stop just down the main road on the way to Sun Valley.

It was cold, 27 degrees in the morning.

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV – Saturday April 8, 2017

We have been here for a couple of days setting out the wind storm blowing across the western U.S. Looks like we will get back on the road tomorrow morning.

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV – Thursday April 6, 2017

Here is Jack’s 9 month picture.

We did not get as far as we had planned. We were on Hwy 93 just north of I-15 when Richard called to say the wind was blowing in Sparks and peaking at 70 mph. He was giving us a head’s up for the weekend, it usually takes one to two days for a weather front to get across the state. We decided to pull into Cathedral Gorge, the campground is in a valley and a good place to set out a storm. Will be here at least until Sunday. One of the park rangers said the weather should get here late Friday into Saturday. Jean and I spent almost a week here several years ago setting out a rain storm. I’ll have to look that up in the logbook. It is the year I-15 washed out south of St. George.

In site 13.
By the way Hank loves the cooler temperatures.