Lots of Snow at Great Basin National Park, Nevada

We drive to Great Basin National Park, Nevada. The scenery along the drive is basically ‘blah’.

When we arrive at the park, we look at the exhibits and watch the movie at the visitor center.

The volunteer on duty suggests that we camp at Baker Campground, which she said is preferred by big rigs.

On the way up the mountain to the campground, it starts to snow. I guess that’s better than the rain we’ve had at times today.

We stop at the entrance to the campground to look at the map. I get out to look at the map and look over and realize that there are 8 buck with furry antlers about 15 feet away, all huddled together and staring at me. Of course the camera is in the truck. I go back to the truck and take a picture of some of them as they run away.

The campground is not really designed for large trailers like ours, and we accidentally scrape against the limb of a tree while we’re looking for a campsite. It breaks the covering to our one vent and causes a little tear on the side of our rubber roof…very frustrating. We set up camp, access the damage to the trailer, cook a nice hot dinner of comfort food, and then head out to explore the park.

As we drive up the Scenic Drive it starts snowing harder, but never really lays on the road.

The snow at the end of the Scenic Drive is several inches deep, so we take a walk about to enjoy the fresh snow and of course Joe & Jere have a snowfight.

We had hoped to take a trail to see a grove of some of the oldest trees on the planet, but all the trails (except one) are closed in the park. Too much snow on the ground. Here’s the trailhead for the grove of old trees.

We drive back to the campground and decide to stay only one night since it’s too cold to do any hiking tomorrow. Our campground is empty, so we hunker down in our warm trailer and keep the generator running til 10pm since no one’s around to complain about the noise.