by Allan | Sep 15, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
This morning I awoke to gentle rain on the tent, for which I was prepared but hadn’t really expected. I returned to the hot spring, filled the tub and took a nice morning soak. Although the ranch buildings are long gone, the hot springs remains on private land,...
by Allan | Sep 14, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
From my first days planning this summer, I wanted to visit a particular remote hot spring in Nevada. Larry Crutcher, a longtime solar installer out of Yuma, Arizona, last year sent me a picture of some old graybeard (him) in a tub outdoors with mountains in the...
by Allan | Sep 12, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
In the last few posts I have described my experiences away from the solar work for White Mountain Research Center, all based on my Labor Day weekend at Echo Lake Camp and the riding to get there and back. In this post I’m describing the changes that accompany my...
by Allan | Sep 10, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
The last two days have been full – especially of riding the Beemer. In reverse order: I’m camping tonight at Porcupine Creek CG on the high road in Yosemite NP. This is one of the three most primitive campgrounds in the park. I haven’t camped...
by Allan | Sep 8, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
I spent three days at the City of Berkeley’s Echo Lake Camp. Even though I knew nobody, I felt at home with the spirit of family camp that I had known as a child and teen, and that I shared with my own family maybe ten years ago. That camp had been Tuolumne,...
