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[craig333]

Nice thing about the camper. I can do something incredibly stupid like that and not lose any feet over it. In fact I'd probably sit tight till I could self rescue just so no one found out how dumb I am

[oldnslow]

" Nice thing about the camper. I can do something incredibly stupid like that and not lose any feet over it. In fact I'd probably sit tight till I could self rescue just so no one found out how dumb I am"

That is what I would do too. I've done a few dumb things that I was not about to admit to later.

[SunMan]

What a great report, this fell through the cracks for me, just reading this for the first time. We like remote and it sure looks like you found it. Awesome.

[locrwln]

What a great report, this fell through the cracks for me, just reading this for the first time. We like remote and it sure looks like you found it. Awesome.

Thanks, we really enjoyed ourselves. Keep trying to head back out, but the few weekends we have had free, ended up not being free. Has really put a damper on our travel plans.

Jack

[tipandchimmy]

Did you come across Hell Creek where the Stolpa rescue site is located? 

[locrwln]

Did you come across Hell Creek where the Stolpa rescue site is located? 

Sorry for the delay in responding, life has been busy.

 

I did not on that trip, but I have been in that area a couple of times and it shocks me every time that they not only were on a remote dirt road in Northern Nevada in winter, but they made a turn off of that road onto an even smaller road (really nothing more than a two track) and then onto an even less traveled road to get to where they ended.  Truly made every effort to kill themselves in a very remote land.

 

Jack

[craig333]

But, in a low snow winter, and not being stolpad, is it totally unreasonable to do a winter trip up that way?

[MarkBC]

But, in a low snow winter, and not being stolpad, is it totally unreasonable to do a winter trip up that way?

 

The main county roads (not the silly secondary roads that the Stolpas for some reason ended up) through the Sheldon Refuge are high-speed gravel -- the roads I've driven twice in my Honda Civic on "Black Friday" (and documented here).  So, though the roads are not plowed in winter...if there's little/no snow then it's no sweat.  But in a normal winter there will be a time when there will likely be impassable drifts here and there.

[Smokecreek1]

The main county roads (not the silly secondary roads that the Stolpas for some reason ended up) through the Sheldon Refuge are high-speed gravel -- the roads I've driven twice in my Honda Civic on "Black Friday" (and documented here).  So, though the roads are not plowed in winter...if there's little/no snow then it's no sweat.  But in a normal winter there will be a time when there will likely be impassable drifts here and there.

 Ya, but you know how to drive Mark ( and now "unstuck" trained), unlike the "stupids" who could neither drive nor read, nor have any common sense. It still bothers me that the so called media made a movie that  made these people seem like hero's or something (complete with nice snow pictures of the Sierras not the northern Great Basin) ,. instead of where they were and what they did wrong ---so he made one decision after he go stuck that was right and walked to a county road station-then tried to "sue" the rescuers- the county road crews, the  BLM -who later got to his wife/kid -(remember there where lot's of us folks trying to find them out there), and for some reason the USFS for not marking the road as impassible during uncertain weather. We had several threads a while back discussing "them" so except as an example of what not to do, let's do not talk about them any more! 

 

Smoke