pre-CLUI logistics

Prepping for CLUI. Planning the route to get there, looking at Google, marking trajectories, downloading info on the National Forest areas. Bookmarking relevant info. Scanning the weather charts, prepping the vehicle. Fluid top-ups, system checks, gnarly winter tires on (gas mileage goes down, argh). Weather does not look good at all. Late winter travel is never risk-free. Pacific storms can roll in every three or four days around this time of the year — and one of these can paralyze travel for many days at a time, depending on the intensity.