We took a wilderness wander today, a long loop on our way to Little A-town. We took Big Creek Road for quite a distance, and at this corner could go either way, and we stayed with BCR (in order to go through Aska, which turned out to be a few remaining buildings and fields, no commercial structures and no town center). Note that Big Creek didn’t really flow through a Big Valley, and that there was indeed a Little Creek near the far end of our route.
We saw lots of outsized caterpillar tents like this in the mountains, and the grass was darned green for this time of year. I don’t know if the two reflect the same summer weather trends. Still—GIANT caterpillar tents.