Posted on 12/22/2009 10:44:18 AM PST by sodpoodle
New thread;) I don’t have a ping list - but until he is arrested I’m going with our collective instincts;)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413650/posts
It is wild and rugged land, but you are incorrect about the access. I’ve gone to Simpson Springs many times. The fastest and most direct access im Winter is to go West on 1-80 turn South at Rowley Junction, go past Iosepa and Dugway in the Skull Valley of Western Utah. No mountain passes at all.
Still, no one in their right mind would take small boys camping on such a frigid sub-zero night into such a remote area on a late Sunday night. I winter camp, and have done so even with small children - it takes a lot of planning!
I beleive the temp was “sub-freezing”, not “sub-zero”. Still, one would not take one’s young sons camping at midnight under such conditions.
This is the history for Tooele airport the morning of Dec 6, 2009. http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KUTLAKEP2&month=12&day=6&year=2009
You can see that the low was 5.5. Simpson Springs generally records temperatures lower than Tooele. Whatever the temperature - whether 5.5 or -5.5 it was too cold to imagine camping with young children.
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