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went on another quad run, only about 45-50 miles this time
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their about 200-250 feet tall, my son standing in front for size
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after riding thru a few creeks....
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heading back. like i said, glad we got out on this ride..
Attachment 1801371Attachment 1801372 cause when we got back, went to get a cold one out of the fridge, and it was'nt cold, and the fridge stank of ammonia.....yup, kiss of death, cooling unit frapped out, and as our camper is an '89, most likely haft to be a fridge replacement....money time...big money time...:waah: sometimes you just haft to stop banging your head on the wall, we cut our holidays 2 days short and came home.... even coming home we got tied up at this construction site...bah Attachment 1801373Attachment 1801374 |
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Bummer on the fridge. I'm happy I dumped the original fridge in my camper from 1982. I plugged it into 110 and it seemed to start working, but it was right where I wanted my seat to lean back to. So it had to go.
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Great pictures, thanks for sharing.
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biggest dilema we're facing is wether or not to replace it....paid $1500 for the camper about 10 yrs ago, do i really want to spend $1500 for a fridge? i would in a heartbeat if...if we had'nt outgrown it. my wife and i used to sleep in the overhead and my son would sleep in a cupboard flip down above the table, but this yr he has grown much too big to fit up there, so he got the overhead and wife and me got the table fold down bed...prob is the table fold down is only 5' 5", and i'm just under 6', as is my son, so putting him down there still causes child abuse...lol.... normally i look forward to sleeping in the camper, i always seem to sleep like a baby out in the bush, but not this time...got to the point i was opening the door in the middle of the nite and letting my feet hang outside...only thing is we all got eated by skeeters... we might just try find a reasonable used fridge and then sell it and get something with a little more room. easier to sell with a working fridge than a non-working... have'nt popped the wheel off my son's quad yet, but here's my tailpipe off the stepper. was a Flowmaster cat-back system i put on there in '04, guess i can't really complain, got almost 15 yrs of service out of it for it got rotten.. Attachment 1801667Attachment 1801668 and when we were putting the quad trailer away, this happened to my trailer dolly...ever try to push a 1600 lb trailer over gravel with just the little plastic wheel on the leg?...maybe it's time to go climb under a rock until Murphy gets the heck outta my business...lol Attachment 1801669Attachment 1801670 |
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Looks like an awesome trip (even with the mechanical failures)! :metal:
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As you found the 3way fridges are problematic. I'd go with a straight 12v or 12v/110v unit. Check these guys out https://www.truckfridge.com/truckfridge-models/ They mainly sell fridges for over the road trucks, but with some careful measurements, you might be able to match one up. Not sure about the exchange rate to Oh-Canada, but prices are pretty fair. I'm strongly looking at the chest fridges they have as they are half of what my buddy paid for his Snomaster we brought on the desert trip. Kids do have that pesky problem about getting bigger/taller over time. If bears aren't an issue I'd get him a tent and let him sleep in the great outdoors! Either that or it's time to start shopping for a bigger camper. |
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can't really complain about the service i got out of it Rob!, 10 yrs with zero probs 'till now, and it is 30 yrs old...turns out too many ruff roads did it in, i found a crack where a tube goes into the boiler...just having a hard time justfying dropping $1500 for a new fridge into a camper that we outgrew...
well, after looking at all kinds of fridges and the money they command, i think i found a solution to my problems. i only paid $1500 for my camper orig. and prob only have another $2-300 in it over the yrs, so i don't want to spend lots, and i could only find a couple used rv fridges up here, and only 1 will fit and it's 600 miles each way away....:waah:. then i came across this and am going to check it out on sat... Attachment 1802814Attachment 1802815Attachment 1802817Attachment 1802818 our camper is an 8', '89 Travl-Mate, this camper is a 8', '88 Travl-Mate-it's an exact match in every detail, right down to the upholstery, same layout-everthing, even has the same red stripes as ours had before i re-did them green, which is pretty rare as Travl-Mate's were made in the Okanogan and they did'nt make a lot of these ones. as you can see it has some serious damage where the jack used to be, but the fridge and all other appliances work perfect. besides the fridge (direct drop in, exact match) there is a bunch of other stuff we can salvage from it, and the guy wants 400 clams firm for it, less money than the 600 mile away fridge i was looking at. going to ask the guy to fire up the fridge on fri before i come, if it's good, i'll need to borrow a truck from work, would'nt trust jacking that thing up the 46" needed to clear my crewcab bed....lol a good sign though, they still use it, damage and all Attachment 1802816 wife and i have decided to sell our old faithful, we plain outgrew it, but a $400 investment could pay off, easier to sell and worth more with all the appliances working than with a frapped fridge. we have decided to sell it cause were looking at this......... |
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...it's a '91 Lance, 9' 6", and it's in real nice shape, i like the awning..
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That Lance looks nice. Makes my little FWC seem like a clubhouse in comparison.
But, I'm 6 foot tall and can sleep in the overhead or lower bench. The overhead is actually a few inches wider than I am tall, so I have lots of room up there. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/827/4...672732b6_b.jpg No sink, no crapper, no stove inside, but the trade off in size pays off that I can drive mine deeper into the sticks and camp anywhere I want. |
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Pre-camping pic. Been catching up on maintenance. Fridge needs a new thermostat, removed the lift jacks, cleaned and treated the rubber roof and touched up a bunch of the seals with silicone.
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PS get the lance, DD!
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the one concession i have to make to wifey when rv shopping, it's got to have a toilet...myself i could care less, i'm like a bear when i'm in the woods, the miss'us, nope, nada, no way....which kinda sucks, i like a 8 foot camper so i can shut the tailgate, but a bathroom in a 8 sure eats up the room... ya, our overhead is like yours, plenty-o-room, but the fridge cuts the table bed down to 5-5. and i'm a realist, i know my rig is pretty big out in the bush, but it gets us to where there is "no people around for miles aroma". it's the width that i find can be annoying, height and length ain't a problem, a wide full size camper in the bush is...and we still got the quads to get further out when needed. my wife and me used to sleep in the back of my K5 25 yrs ago, but there is no way in hake she will do it anymore. but my son and me unloaded the camper yesterday, we're thinking putting the canopy back on the truck and grabbing the tent and going out next weekend... Attachment 1803224 last time we had this on the truck was before we picked up the camper-many, many years... |
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That looks good with the topper on it. I just sold mine. The wife said she was done lifting it on and off the truck in the fall and spring.
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Last year's run to Pearl pass was the first time since College that she's gone wheeling/camping with me. That's going on 20+ years ago. As things happen, she can't take the heat of staying on the front range camping at any lake when the temps are high and little to no chance for air conditioning. (heat can trigger her MS to flare up ugly) But last years trip proved she could still camp, not get hot as it's easily 20degrees cooler in the higher elevations. The only issue on Pearl pass was actually getting cold because it dipped deep into the 40's to high 30's at night and we didn't have heavy enough bags to sleep in. The idea of a camper with a furnace where she didn't have to sleep on an air mattress and freeze her tail off was instrumental to me getting the FWC camper in the first place. She won't go on every run, but we can also do some closer runs just to get into the hills for the weekend and be less "wheeling" and more camping/hanging out and relaxing. We've got another trip planned with the two families we went over Pearl Pass with the weekend after next. We won't be hitting any hairy trails like last time, but it's still in a great area and fun to go through. It will be in the central mountains in our normal go-to wheeling spot, but this time we'll hit Pomeroy Lakes, Hancock lake & pass and possibly Tomichi Pass with a return on Old Monarch pass. They are fun trails, but some of the group not as used to the off road stuff voted to take it easier this time. (hopefully, they don't look up details on Tomichi pass as it's a narrow shelf up and down) |
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We haven't gone camping or even wheeling for while. I've got one picture of a trip to Mount Shavana above Salida. We used to go over Medano pass into the sand dunes and tent camp part way down the dunes side. But no pictures :(
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I found one more picture from Mount Shavana trip but I'm not sure anyone on this sight would want to see it. (my wife's DD and it has A/C)(oh yeah! and we inherited it)
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My eyes! That looks unsafe for the road for sure. Crack and power tools do not mix.
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Medano Pass is a nice easy run, but very pretty at the same time. I've camped just down from the summit on the dunes side at the edge of the creek. I want to take a weekend and do just that, camp above the dunes (usually free of the touristas staying in the dunes campgrounds), wheel out of the park (hint hint, you don't have to pay the national park entry fee if you come in off of the pass) and then drive up to Villa Grove on 285, turn and go east over Hayden pass. Camp on the pass somewhere and then drive down back to hwy 50 and back home. Again, it's not a crazy rock crawling trail, but just rough enough to keep the Subaru's and other Crossover's off of it. You need to get that K5 out on some dirt. Once you gain some elevation you really don't need air conditioning anyway. |
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Sweet OJ ride!
Looks like a few good options on the campers, Dawg. Here’s a top down pic in its natural state. Last trip I got almost 10 mpg but not today. Too much skinny pedal... |
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Went up for the weekend to screw around in the mountains a couple of days back. Camper got a good workout with the wife and one of my dogs coming along for the first time.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/858/4...525c4dac_b.jpgIMGP0002 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/941/4...e7b55725_b.jpgIMGP0006 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr At the top of the trail for Pomeroy lake. We were at 11,500 ft here. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/848/4...1f1ae138_b.jpgIMGP0007 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/856/4...8255eef5_b.jpgIMGP0017 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/849/4...51efc771_b.jpgIMGP0018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Lots of old mine relics in this part of Colorado. This is part of the Mary Murphy Mine. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/860/4...287a34e1_b.jpgIMGP0022 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/939/4...e99f9eb6_b.jpgIMGP0034 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Hankock pass. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/856/4...6d5309fa_b.jpgIMGP0001 (2) by Rob Zulian, on Flickr 30,000 Gallon water tank for the old steam engine that rain up to the Apline Tunnel. The trail my truck is on was the old road bed for the rail line. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/935/4...3604ed8b_b.jpgIMGP0014 (2) by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Then the funny part. This is a fairly new Mazda CX-5 cross-over. Look closely and you'll see 3 flat tires in the pic. Actually all were flat, the bonus is the right front had come completely off the bead. This was 200ft from the summit of Tincup Pass. It's pretty tame for my K5 as trails go and your average stock 4wd truck can go over with no lift and a decent set of tires. But the size of the rocks kinda preclude taking a "Soft-Roader" over it with 40-series low profile tires and zero ground clearance. The poor car got beat to death. Rockers are missing trim and beat in by the rocks, even the doors got hit hard at the bottom. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/851/4...cd328c13_b.jpgIMGP0022 (2) by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Minimum wrecker fee from a Tow operator in nearby Buena Vista Colorado was $250 per hour from when they leave the shop to where they drop it. Just getting to the top from the south trailhead would be 2.5 hours easy. We all laughed hard over this dummy. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/861/2...b5d00c44_b.jpgIMGP0023 (2) by Rob Zulian, on Flickr |
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vacationing in 2018 ha not been very memorable so far....
the guy with the Lance camper 'gave' it to his BIL....why did he even bother to advertise it...and with our camper down, we decided to head for the BC/Alberta border with the wife's truck. there is a cluster of 4 national parks there, kinda like Yellowstone, a national park. It's a round trip of approx 1900 kms (around 1200 miles). like Yellowstone, these parks are the jewels of our country, Yoho, Kootenay, Banff, and Jasper. I have been there three times, twice as a kid and with my wife back in 2002. Has got a lot more touristy, and waaaay more expensive.... we have around 600 forest fires going right now, so about 80% of our province is covered in heavy smoke, as well as we also got smoke from the Calf. fires drifting up, and a bunch of smoke floating over from some big fires in Siberia. Attachment 1811717 pretty smoky leaving, up on the Coquihalla hiway Attachment 1811713 puppy p break, a prairie dog hanging out Attachment 1811714Attachment 1811715 ya, it's pretty smoky Attachment 1811716 |
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after driving about 250 miles across the province, the smoke has still not got any better...
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finally after about 350 miles we're seeing less smoke....can start seeing some of the mountains again...:lol:
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glad i got these pics, turns out they were about as clear as i could get. even still, there is a smoke haze shrouding the mountains
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actually these pic's and the previous post pic's are from 2 more smaller national parks we drove threw on the way, Revelstoke and Glacier parks.
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some more from Revelstoke and Glacier
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smoke is starting to pick up again, going hazy again
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smoke played with us all morning...offf and on.....hard to see the beauty mountains....:waah:
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the drive into Emerald lake, biggest lake in Yoho
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nice at Emerald, water is cold
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there is a few waterfalls on the way to Takakkaw, like Wapta falls
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after a few miles you come around a corner and there it is. the Cree were right, it is magnificent...
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