Re: free (BLM) camping near Reno?

In rec.backcountry Eugene Miya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mark Miller  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In rec.climbing John Reece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> mark miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>>> I'm attending the National Avalanche School later this month in Reno,
>>>> and - hoping to keep costs down - would like to camp. 
>>
>>> This begs the question, how are you/they going to do avalanche
>>> training when no snow is likely?
>>
>>Because that's when it's offered.  As Eugene says, there are multiple
>>sections, and this one is all classroom.  Whether it's really the
>>right thing to do... I'll know either in a few weeks, or perhaps later
>>this winter when I'm dead as a result of some misinformation or
>>misapplied theory...
>>
>> -Mark, in Berkeley, where avalanche potential has thus far this year
>>been fairly low...

> Well actually, that's likely a sci.geo.geology topic.
> It's the difference of what constitutes a land slide vs.
> what constitutes an avalanche.

touche.

>  You are just sitting next to the Hayward
> Fault which goes thru the upper campus.

> Locate a photo of the Blackhawk slide north of Big Bear Lake in So. Cal,
> there a couple of square miles of land broke and slid miles on a cushion
> of air at a couple hundred miles per hour.  I think an aerial photo
> appears in Norris and Webb's Geo. of California.

> This is not to say that Reno is much safer.