profDan.
I've seen you sig pic for a while and when you posted the blowup i recognized that rock! It's OUR secret spot a few miles No. on Dunderberg Road. A sylvan glade it is. We have camped there in all four seasons. It's cool in the summer and cold in the winter. What a view out over Western Nevada. Here follow some more of the same place, only a little less fall-like. This one was in Sept. on a trip with my brother John: The rock is to the left out of pic:

This is October 6th after a very early snow: rock is still to the left.

Your mode of camping changes with your age and station in life, which is always changing. Get over it. Get used to it. Get camping. Time marches on whether we are there or not.
regards, as always, jefe