OK, I'm finally concluding that March 23 might be a wee bit early to head north if the fresh snow is any indication. Looks like the new options are to hunker down near Salt Lake City for a week or two and wait for the warm weather to move north...
...or point the bow southward and make a strategic retreat back to more reasonable temperatures. Along with everyone else, it seems!
There's a bit of BLM land down near Overton Nevada known as Snowbird Mesa (or Poverty Flats) that we'd never stopped at. We burned a little extra diesel to make the retreat but we saved a lot of wear and tear on the furnace (and our toes and fingers). We started out on the edge of the mesa at 36.48465, -114.44372 where the view is great, but after a couple days moved back from the edge out of the wind.
There might still be snow in the higher elevations and the north, but it's definitely spring in the desert. Now THIS is more like it!
Since we'd not spent any time in the area before, we did a little exploring... like touring of the Logandale Trails System.
