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Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:08 am
by ERIC
Just curious how big of a factor (if any) gas prices are in everybody's Sierra Nevada travel planning.
BTW: You can vote for two options if you want, and you have the ability to come back and change your vote if you change your mind. Just another new feature of this new forum software...
Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:29 am
by gary c.
I put other because I'm not sure if I will do less trips but I wll most likely try to stay an extra day or two to get the most out of the ones I do take.
Gary C.
Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:18 am
by ERIC
gary c. wrote:I put other because I'm not sure if I will do less trips but I wll most likely try to stay an extra day or two to get the most out of the ones I do take.
Gary C.
Yah. I debated whether or not to include an option for that; and also one for those whose plans might have shifted towards Sierra destinations located a little closer to home.
Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:30 am
by The Other Tom
Since I'm coming from the east coast, and only make one trip per year, I'll have to suck it up on the gas prices. I thought they were high last year at $4 per gallon. I voted "other".
Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:33 pm
by dave54
It's a matter of priorities. We are cutting back elsewhere to pay the monthly gas bill. The sanity breaks on weekends is too important to curtail. (I just filled up my truck today for $130. The curse of a large gas tank and letting it get real low.
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Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:48 am
by Snow Nymph
dave54 wrote:It's a matter of priorities. We are cutting back elsewhere to pay the monthly gas bill. The sanity breaks on weekends is too important to curtail. (I just filled up my truck today for $130. The curse of a large gas tank and letting it get real low.
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I agree, priorities. 120 consecutive weekends out, I can’t stop now because of gas prices. I'll cut back somewhere else.
Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:24 pm
by hikerduane
Slow Nymph, does this break your record now? 120.
Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:32 pm
by Snow Nymph
Record was 86
Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:43 pm
by mountaineer
No. I won't let it happen, even if I have to go into debt.
Snow Nymph, I hate you! 120 consecutive weekends?!!!
Re: Gas Prices: Affecting Your Sierra Nevada Travel?
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:53 am
by dmdhiker
Other was my vote. We ended up locking our trip into only the eastern Sierra with the use public transportation to and from Reno. No car or rental needed. If gas prices weren't so high we may have rented a car and drive to San Fransisco and follow the coast south, not instead of our Sierra trip but in addition to. Thus we will be hiking out of Tuolumne, Mammoth, and Bishop, using both the CREST and YARTS buses.