I thought about sticking around the campsite I'm in for one more night the temperature supposed to drop into the low 20s. But after careful consideration all that's going to make them do is go find a heat source which is me and my really really warm blankets. So I think going back down to the heat would be smarter because then they'll drop hopefully and go run off and find somewhere else to go hang out. The only thing that sucks about the desert is all the darn mice and kangaroo rats. They've been really bad this year.
For the first time ever two weeks ago I had a mouse in my van. Somehow it figured out a way to get up through the firewall and get into the main cab it took me 5 hours to finally kill it with a trap over by the accelerator pad. I guess it really just depends upon where you're camped if you're going to get hit or not I spent four nights in a gravel pit and didn't hear one of anything. Then I went to valley of the gods in Utah and it was non-stop mice running up and down through my van, the engine block I mean. I had trap set up and I caught one but I got him in the morning after he was leaving. I think a lot of that also has to do with behaviors from other people if the mice aren't accustomed to litter and food they're not going to know that the vehicle is what brought that there. I always set up traps around my front wheels. Some of them mice are smart enough to get around it, some aren't.
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