Yosemite National Park's Upper Pines closed...
...Thru Thanksgiving evening due to heavy snow. I-80 at Truckee is also closed for this evening and on mandatory tire-chain for non 4WD vehicles.
Forum Discussion
pnichols wrote:
But, but, but Dan .... very few folks on this Earth (other than Antarctic 4X4 overlanders) could stand to camp in those conditions and sleep at night with no heat in their rig!
I didn't even appreciate the cold nights in my tent in July in the High Sierras when I used to backpack up there.
(I got my aversion to cold from being raised in Michigan and sleeping in an unheated 2nd story bedroom with old single pane windows so bad that snow was on the INSIDE of the windowsills in the morning just inches from my head in the bed. I moved to CA at age 19 and never looked back ... which includes setting our CA stick house and motorhome furnaces to 65 degrees during the night . Isn't that what big AGM RV batteries and occasional quiet generator use are for? ;) )
Yeah, it's absolutely miserable tent camping on sub-zero no matter the ratings on the sleeping bag.
But it's actually not too bad inside an RV. My wife even wants to turn off the furnace once the inside stops being freezing cold and would just sleep through the night bundled in her thick blanket(s). Same at home in the room on snowy winter nights.
