Well, shoot!!  So I'm entering EP16 on July 7, and you numbskulls er....veteran paddlers are telling me to either sleep in my car at the EP or make sure I get my butt outta bed in the dark, arrive at the EP in the dark, use my headlamp to get my crap to the river in the dark.....to beat the hordes.

That does NOT sound like a relaxing way to start a lengthy solo....maybe I should wait till noon to arrive at the EP and then make my way north and find a crappy one or two-star site nobody in their right mind would stay at....that might actually work for me....  :D  :D  ;D  ;D