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So we planned a club outing for Memorial Day Weekend to go camp at Indian Creek Reservoir and fish for a few days.
Cindy and I drove up there on Thursday to secure a good spot before the crowds hit. Thursday afternoon another club member, Gary, joined us. Gary and I fished from our tubes for a couple of hours with Gary landing one fish and losing another acrobatic fish on a black crystal bugger. The weather was totally bizarre. Unsettled they call it. I got so cold I could not even feel my fingers! It was windy, cold and very cloudy with light rain off and on. (I should have gotten a clue when it was spitting snow going over the Carson Spur!) Anyway we had a nice dinner, some adult beverages and settled in for the night.
I woke up several times throughout the night hearing what things hitting the tent... When I got up in the morning there was snow on the ground and all over the tent. What I had been hearing was blobs of snow falling from the trees above onto the tent.
Gary and I drove up the hill to get a cell phone signal and I called in a favor from a friend. HE said that the weather report called for 60-70% chances for thunderstorms for the majority of the weekend and should be clearing up on Tuesday. As in the day I was supposed to come home... As I was talking on the phone the clouds parted and the lake went flat. We high-tailed it back down to camp, geared up, grabbed the float tubes and headed for the water. We kicked around the lake for a couple of hours with no luck what so ever. Then the weather started getting nasty again. The wind picked up and it started to rain a little. We decided to go back to camp and grab some lunch. While we were eating it really started to come down. Then came the hail, then some more rain. We decided to pack up and run home with our tails between our legs. While we were breaking camp and loading the truck it started pouring down hail on us.
As we drove back up Carson Pass I could not see the road, it was covered in hail!
This will teach me to plan my time better so that I at least have a few minutes to check the weather report before heading out to go camping...
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