Cold weather, generators, and campgrounds

Matt_Colie wrote:

cptqueeg wrote:
My wife and I were at Yellowstone the past few days at NPS campground Madison, which is run by Xanterra. It was pretty cold and snowy for several days, not extreme, but a little "rough" for mid-October.

The campground rules are no generators btwn 8pm - 8am. There were many in the campground that ran their generators intermittently all through night. My question is this:

Is this complete disregard for the rules and FELLOW CAMPERS acceptable in light of the conditions?

Well Captain,

You don't give much for the specifics of the conditions. You also allow that those that ran generators ran them intermittently.

It would seem to me that those that did run generators were doing their best to not inconvenience the others there and still survive the night. There are more than one reason that they may have had to fire up the generator. One of the top ones to me would that Fishing Bridge is probably closed along with the other campgrounds that can supply electric.

Now, if they had run the generators all night, that would be a different story altogether.

Matt

The weather was a low of 15-20, F winds 10-15mph mostly cloudy. It had been stormy so there were days prior to this w daily snowfalls of 1-2", totaling about 8"powdery snow.

Yes they ran them intermittently at various hours through the nights for 1/2hr - 1hr periods.
I presume 1 or more btwn the 2 nights were built in Onan 4-5000w, one 4000-5000w loud, and a couple others.


After 2 nights of horrible sleep we packed up late afternoon and skipped staying the last night - we live 5 hours from W Yellowstone.


My thoughts are if you can't make it through the night following the rules then you need to beat it.