After a day of filtered sun through the heavy tree cover on our site, followed by two complete days of next to no sun at all, our lithium batteries were suffering.
We needed to get THE POD out from under all these trees and into the open, otherwise we were going to have to start up our Honda 2000 generator for the first time in several years.
We stopped at the grocery store in Columbia Falls, about 17-miles outside of the park, and purchased nearly $250 worth of food. We should be good to go now for several weeks.
After several hours of driving, and several hours out from under the trees, we managed to recharge the batteries enough that we'll be able to keep the refrigerator running tonight, charge our laptops and cell phones, use all the lights we want and still have enough left over to run the furnance tonight if we need to.
The furnance heat comes from burning propane, but the big fan blower runs off the batteries.
I guess we could have slept in the bed backwards to keep the blood from rushing to our heads.
Oh well, it's not that big a deal to reconnect in the morning.
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