Wandrer

From July '12 to March '13 I lived out of my van in Utah. The winter was cold, however with kind friends allowing me to park in their front yard and plug into some electricity I survived with a space heater. It wasn't bad. I made some insulation for the windows out of some thin insulation sewn into fleece fabric squares cut to fit the windows on the van. It kept me much warmer, the addition of a front cab divider also made it extremely stealthy, and nearly impossible to tell anyone was in the van with lights blazing watching a movie.

It was extremely dry running a heater all the time. I purchased a personal space humidifier to restore balance to my environment. Cold winter with lots of great powder days.

We went for a long hike to the summit of Lone Peak. It is a 10 hour hike if you don't get lost in the rock garden. Awesome view, well worth the hike. We took the Jacobs Ladder Trail, very steep, it is exhilarating. Not for the faint of heart.

Lone Peak, a mountain peak southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, is the center of the Lone Peak Wilderness Area, which was established in 1978. At 11,253 feet (3,430 m) elevation, it is one of the taller peaks in the Wasatch Range along the Wasatch Front and tends to be a favorite hike. Lone Peak consists almost entirely of quartz monzonite (a granitoid, or granite-like) rock of the 30.5 million year old Little Cottonwood Stock.^[1]^[2]^[3] Quartzite and limestone are also found in distal locations on the mountain. Lone Peak is the 87th highest named mountain in Utah.^[4]