Here is the rig at Wolf Gap:
The campground area had nine sites for tent campers. The platforms for the tents were fabulous, they had raised beds with crushed stone as the fill. The paved parking spots are sized for cars but we found one big enough for the truck and camper by backing in and having the back of the camper overhang the pavement. The parking space was unlevel but I thought it wasn't bad enough to cause the gap absorption refrigerator from working. I was wrong so we tried using leveling blocks Jane's father had given us. They improved the situation but the refrigerator still didn't work well. After traveling to NY, when leaving Wolf Gap where the level issue should have been resolved, the refrigerator still was not working properly. I decided to try Jane's suggestion of turning the refrigerator off for awhile and then turning it back on. That seems to have done the trick.
We got to Wolf Gap accompanied with rain and fog. The next day the rain had passed but the fog was persistent. When we went for a hike after lunch, the fog was still around as can be seen by the two pictures below. The first picture is when we first reached the mountaintop and the second was on our way down the mountain. Eventually, the fog subsided enough to get a much better view of the valley. One point of interest about the campground and the hiking trail we trekked is that part of it is in VA and part in WV. In fact, the trail straddled the border between the states.
Wolf Gap campground operates on a first come first serve basis. They have a kiosk where you put a 3" x 5" form filled in with your name and vehicle information in a holder as shown below:
The ride up the mountain was somewhat harrowing so we were anxious about the ride down and the light coating of snow we received that morning just heightened the anxiety. Hence, we did as we were told on the front end of our visit but we forgot to remove the card and deposit it in the used card slot on the tail end of our stay. The picture below was taken from the door of the camper the morning we left Wolf Gap.
It seemed like the northeast was trying to make up for our lack of experiencing a real winter. The snow on the ground in VA/WV wasn't the last we saw. We continued to see it in PA and NY. In PA, it was warm enough that the snow wasn't an issue. In a section of I-88 in NY, the situation appeared to be different. We saw cars off both sides of the road and at least one had hit a guard rail. I didn't notice any loss of traction so maybe the cars that had gone off the road were going too fast but at any rate, I slowed down until I was sure the treacherous part was behind us. Before we left the next day after traversing PA and NY, I was a little wary of what we might encounter on the road in the Green Mountains of NY. I checked the weather for Woodford VT which was almost inside the Green Mountain National Forest. The forecast called for some snow starting around 11 AM so we left early enough so that we would have passed through the forest by then. Well that didn't work out for us, either the forecast was off or Woodford wasn't representative of the weather since we ended up encountering snow and snowy roads. Luckily, we followed a plow truck through the worst part and made it through the mountains without anything but additional anxiety.
It will be warming up by the end of the week, but as I'm writing this post the day after we arrived in NH we woke up to a coating of snow and a high temperature for the day in the 20s. We don't have to worry about feeling deprived of a winter experience!
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