Snow: how deep is too deep for camping?
I'm sitting here in suburban Southern California, going stir crazy and looking at the snow depth monitors throughout the Sierras. They are slowly dropping -- yesterday we had a foot or more of snow i...
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It really shouldn't be about how much snow you can get through. It's more about whether you'll damage the road or the boondocking site by creating ruts in the mud under the snow. Seen more than our share of places where people obviously drove in very wet conditions and left big ruts in the road and/or pulloffs that take a long time to heal.
Another thing to consider is how wet you'll get tromping around outside. Are you planning on hiking? Or just hanging out around the campsite which will quickly become a mud pit. I'm not a big fan of dragging water and mud into our trailer.
Probably the worst we had to deal with was camping up in the Flat Tops (elevation 10,000') north of I-70 maybe 25-30 years ago. Woke up in the morning and probably 6" of snow had fallen overnight and it was still dumping. We had a Toyota 4x4 pickup with a TC on the back. Bailed out and drove out of there (at least we were in a NFS CG with gravel roads and pads). Even with 4x4 it was sketchy getting out of there. The amazing this about this -- it was July 4th!
Another thing to consider is how wet you'll get tromping around outside. Are you planning on hiking? Or just hanging out around the campsite which will quickly become a mud pit. I'm not a big fan of dragging water and mud into our trailer.
Probably the worst we had to deal with was camping up in the Flat Tops (elevation 10,000') north of I-70 maybe 25-30 years ago. Woke up in the morning and probably 6" of snow had fallen overnight and it was still dumping. We had a Toyota 4x4 pickup with a TC on the back. Bailed out and drove out of there (at least we were in a NFS CG with gravel roads and pads). Even with 4x4 it was sketchy getting out of there. The amazing this about this -- it was July 4th!
