Guess maybe this won’t turn out to be the Summer of Bluegrass after all. We missed two festivals in January and February because of bad weather, and now we’ve missed the Route 66 Bluegrass Festival in Victorville, CA because it was too dang hot! Daytime temps there for the festival were supposed to hover around 106. I just can’t imagine sitting out for a festival in that kind of heat, even though the audience area was shaded.

It’s been even hotter than that here in Vegas, and Bob and I decided to escape the heat for a while and investigate the campgrounds up at Mt. Charleston, elevation 8,500. Although it was about 110 in Vegas, it was a pleasant 85 or so up there.

The campgrounds are on really steep terrain, and although we saw one pull-through site, the majority were back-ins and were pretty small, and pretty close together for a public campground where sites are usually extremely spacious. Several sites were perched so precariously on the side of the mountain that they had steel fencing at the end and sides of the site so that you wouldn’t back off or fall off! Not my kind of site at all!!

The view of the valley from the mountain is pretty spectacular though. Here are a couple of pictures.