RoadTrip: Hot weather forecast, and I'm running late

Hot
2PM 7/20/2012
Hi everyone - just checked the weather and it looks like 90's all week, 50's at night, occasional T-storms. Wells (5600) is a bit higher than Elko (5,000 ft). Angel Creek is at 6,800 ft so hopefully cooler!
Betsy

2:30 7/20/2012
Yes, I confirmed our reseevation at the Motel and she said it is unusually hot  ;-(   But we're tough...right?
Judith

4:30 7/20/2012
The vagaries of weather forecasting -- I once wanted to be a meteorologist but felt the risk factor for incorrect prediction was less in reading crystal balls.

NOAA-Weather Service site shows high temps above 5000 ft. in the Wells area as topping out about 80 deg.F next week. It will be what it will be.  I hope there's water to immerse into, somewhere.


4:30 7/20/2012
Welll....  I guess this is the opening to admit that I'm STILL in SRosa CITY!  Hopefully Ben & Vishnu haven't wasted too much time looking for me since I SAID I would be up there in the Santa Rosa MOUNTAINS about yesterday...

Anyway, yeah, I am still stuck-in-the-mud taking care of enough of the last minute details to make sure I can be on the road for a full year including winter in New England...  (hah!)  -actually mainly still making sure I have good backups of all my picts - last chance for a while...

In case anyone's interested, I have a full set of my picts on my computer that I'm leaving at the EC (in the little room with the printer/fax machine) - you can log in as user "open" password "enter" (same as the "public" account on the Mac at the EC)  The picts are distributed over 3 disk drives, ordered chronologically in a file folder tree under root folder "photos" on each drive, then a subfolder tree by year, month, and day.  Most of the "day" -folders have a very long descriptive name beginning with the date, then the "host-org" (eg, CNPS for "our" outings) then a description of the locations and/or occasion.  (I've split the 2012 branch between two disk drives due to space constraints - months 04-April thru 07-July are in same drive as the 2003-2008 picts.)  

Anyhow, I WAS on the verge of leaving (stopping by my daughter's in Woodland near Sacto - taking the back-road route by Lk Hennessey & Lk Berryessa to try to avoid the Friday afternoon rush-hr traffic.

 But I hadn't yet checked the weather... hmmm... maybe I'll wait another day...  Nah.  I'm tough (as long as my car air conditioner works...)
Gary