What would you do?

[SSSdave]

If you are working 6 days a week, I might understand your issue. However if you are a usual 9-5 m-f working person like most of us, I don't understand why you can't satisfy at least some of your Sierra passions on weekends like myriad of we others unless the high cost of gasoline is also a factor?

I've worked for a list of companies in Silicon Valley for decades. Each time I work for another company, my vacation time aka PTO starts at zero days, and as a new employee needing to prove to management a commitment to projects, usually have to commit to any unexpected weekend work during busy times. So every few years I like others are in a position of really not having any vacation days, thus only visit the Sierra on some weekends while I accumulate time off to be able to make longer trips on following years. Of course with only weekends it is a long several hour drive to the Sierra from the SF Bay Area, so one has to commit to that boring chore for relatively short inefficient rewards. Also I'm a winter alpine resort skier about Tahoe so during winters I am regularly driving up and back over two day weekends like many others. And some summer climber friends pretty much are often similar weekend warriors.