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love being the first one thru fresh snow....well, first human threw it...
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Moe was having a bit of a time, kept sinking to his head...don't think his feet were touching the ground much today
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and down to the river
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my dawgs are stupid..lol....below freezing and they need to dick around in the water...
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left the river cause the dogs were icing up...
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and some more undisturbed snow for the puppies to play in
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it was knee deep in spots, don't think Moe was crazy 'bout it
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there's something in there...don't know what it is but i'll find it
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i know something is in there somewhere...
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Rumbledawg...lookin' all handsome..lol
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Slesse was looking cool
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the sun was bouncing off the spire on Slesse and looked awesome...unfortunately my old cam could'nt do it justice..
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tuff being a small dog in a big snowy world...
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Very cool pics!! Them are some happy pups too!!

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thanks!
belive me, the 3 of them are a handful...lol
went on a mission today....but first stopped at the lake...
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as you may know, my camper fridge clapped out the other yr, almost impossible to find one, let alone one that would fit my '89 TravelMate....well, after looking for over a yr, was finally successful. so we've decided to keep the camper a little longer, we're going to kick the kid outside into a tent so me and wifey can have the overhead bunk
works perfectly, gets cold very fast, very clean, just have to change the door inlay with the one from our old one, it's woodgrain so it will match the rest of the camper.
looked at new ones, approx $1400 up here, not complaining at 300 clams for this one...:metal:
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finally got around to doing the camper fridge.
the old one...
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....and dis-connected and pulled out
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replacement fridge on top. you can see how the tube going into the burner cracked and let everything out
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nothing wrong wit the replacement fridge door, but i just liked our older one better, swapped it out
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replaced the old roofmate insulation wit something a little more modern and better while it was opened up.
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and replacement fridge in. just have to do a leak test, then pull the crew alongside, plug it in and test it. it works on electricity, but need to make sure it fires on propane
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broke my stepper the other week. took the mutts up the mountain
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somethin' in there...
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a couple seconds after this pic i was going over some rocks when i heard a slight snap. got out and looked, everything seemed alright, went to keep going and the truck headed straight for the edge and would'nt steer, something was jammed. after another closer inspection, noticed the idler arm was snapped, and it somehow hit the cv joint boot and ripped it off too.
once again i had to back down a mountain with little to no steering...quite often it would jam and i would have to go forward to un-jam it. drove it 30 miles home like that. was not bad as long as the road was fairly straight or had nice wide sweeping turns. it was the 90 degree ones that caused probs. would come around the corner, it would jam and head for the ditch or the curb. a couple people prob wondering what in hell i was doing, heading for the curb, stopping, and backing up against them to try un-jam it.
so it sits in the driveway till i get my income tax return to buy more parts.........
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so i put the crew back on the road
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bummer! this road has'nt had a gate on it in 30 yrs...wonder if it's because of the virus thing
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so let the dawgs run around.
Roxie and Rumble are up this hill
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it's actually steeper than it looks
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and here come Rumbledawg full bore down it....
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have been dumping alot of green into the green machine lately. new tires (!!) new batteries, and some new inner fenders
old ones were rusting by the rear double plate mount
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out wit the old...
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....and in wit the new
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finally getting everything good and last night my stereo started acting up......another chore to the list....

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took the fam damily up the canyon last weekend...getting corona-bored-virus.
seen some neat cars
pretty sweet ford 4x4 van
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amc ambassador ragtop
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and a very nice '68 Power wagon
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wife was having a conniption, she hates heights...(tee-hee)
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some views on the way
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stopped at the river, is very low till the spring thaws
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stopped at this river, had a fire and some smokie's
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amazing how fast they grow up....both
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can ya spot the two mulie does?
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was quite a few miles out in the bush....
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and came across someones tree fort. what's most amazing is someone actually packed all this waaaay out here...
i only went up a couple rungs on the ladder, it's made of 7/16 plywood (!?!)
not scared of heights, i'm a roofer, more scared of sub-standard construction...lol
someone was really brave, or really has a lot of confidence in their "development" skills...
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spent the day letting the dawgs splash around the swamp
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corona-bored again...
as my dawgs can't see over the fence, they get bored
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soooo, had some scrap lumber kicking around....
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now they can see over the fence (lots of people use the field behind us to dog walk) and have'nt touched the yard in a week....optimistically hopeful
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Rumbledawg loves sitting up there. every morn he's catching rays as the sun rises
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Nice work on the fridge install! Bummer about your steering but at least you picked a time to drive the crew when oil is under 30 bucks a barrel...

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I remember the first time driving over the Nass River bridge! Was towing a travel trailer and the road was very narrow back then. Come around a corner through the trees and there it was! Not much for railings back then, just a timber curb. Not much time to get lined up straight either. I've seen recent pictures and it's like a super-highway now although still single lane.

Also a little farther north the first Bell-Irving bridge was a brand new steel replacement for what had apparently been an old log bridge down closer to the river. There was no deck at all on the bridge, just a pair of planks for tire tracks laid down on the steel beams! We pulled in and camped on a steep clearing just to the left on the south side. Drove the back wheels of the pickup up on some timbers to level the trailer. It's all filled in and/or grown over now, but the same round top steel bridge is still there.

That was all back in September 1977.

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thanks MTCK!
ya, can't complain about fuel
dual 20's on the crew, last yr it cost me about $200-220 to fill up, yesterday it cost me $58 bucks to fill one tank- loving it!

my wife is deathly afraid of heights. more than 2 feet off the ground and she goes into panic mode...should have seen her on the open chair gondola lift at Banff the other yr...don't think any amount of talking or cajoling would ever get her on another open chair lift..:lol:

took the mutts up by Welch peak, weather was beauty-ous!
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hiked up about a 1000 feet to this old dam that was used to power steam donkeys for logging back in the early 19 century. date on the concrete was 1910
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sorta nice view from the dam
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good shot of Rumbledawg lookin' all handsome....
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....but not for long...he rolled in something. not sure if it's deer poop, bear skat or what, but it sure was gushy...and stinky
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up in the mountains and snow today..
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been on a bit of a downer last couple weeks after finding out my parents passed, so said the hay wit it and took the fam dam and quads out to unwind a bit.
heading out
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poser shots...
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heading up to Sowerby peak
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parked here cause there was wash outs all over the mountain from last winter's snows. might have got the crew over some of them, but the trailer would definitely not make it...
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first slide we hit....and my son picking his way over it on his Arctic cat
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this little rock slide was not bad, just ran down the road
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and another slide to get over
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logs too...
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nice little crick to cool off in, mid to hi 80's.
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if you look closely, you can see my son's winch line....
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got my quad completely hung up on them big rocks, the 2 of us could'nt lift it out of there...
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getting higher up...right to the snow line. the kid drifting thru some snow
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well, we're not going to be able to ride to the top of Sowerby.
our snow is extremely wet and heavy. once your on the skidplates, you ain't going forward anymore...
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so we back tracked up Hunter valley, but this was as close as we could get to Sowerby
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Looks like an awesome time. Later this summer I’m gonna try and take my K20 for a weekend trip up to my in-laws camp in the mountains here. I’ll have to add some pictures here if I do.

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Dang man very sorry to hear about your folks. That’s brutal. Amazing photos as always.

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Sorry for your loss Dude. I can only imagine how you feel over getting news like that. But mountain runs are good therapy. It looks like a good time.

Gearing up for an overnighter up on a familiar trail we've done many times this weekend. I need to have a test run before we head to Utah next month. I need some mountain time myself. Between work and dealing with the virus business, it's going to be good to be off grid for a weekend.

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Enjoy the Weekend , Not sure what I get to do.:confused:

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thanks, did have a good time, and any outdoor pics are cool!


thank you
ya MTCK, like a 10 ton lightning bolt slapped me in the head...would'nt wish it on anyone...


again, thanks
getting out Zoomad was just what i needed. betwix the virus thing and losing my folks, i needed to get back up in the mountains...
i got a week off coming up first of july myself, have got a pre trip planned also in case there's any bugs wit the new camper fridge.
whereabouts in Utah you heading?

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Target zone is the San Rafael swell in central Utah. 30 miles west of Green River is the jumping off point from pavement. We a starting out in the same area as we did in '17 but will cover more ground in the swell than we did last time.

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sweeet!
are you going in that area around temple Mount rd?
beautiful country around there.

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That's actually the point where we get off of I-70 to head up to the first trail. Fix it pass is first up on the way. We'll come back south on Eva Conover and jog over to Eagle canyon and cross back under I-70 again.

I had a good test run. Blitzed out of the shop right on time. Made good time on the ride up. Thankfully Storm didn't barf on the console on the ride up like she did last time on the way up to the same trail last year. Part of the run was to test out the radios as John and Shane each upgraded to GMRS units too. They knew when I was expected to get up there. So I had the radio on while I was still on the highway. I was probably 2 miles from the turn off the highway to the trail when I got the first contact from Shane. I took note of the mileage and figured it took me 12 miles from the first point of contact to the campsite where they were. While 12 miles on a GMRS unit isn't bad, when you factor in the terrain and elevation difference it's pretty amazing. We all were pretty impressed. It wasn't perfect and depending on where I was at on the trail below them I had some contact and not. Not any surprise there since GMRS line of sight and we were not on a repeater channel. But as I climbed in elevation the quality of the signal was much better than CB ever could be. I'm a believer.

Getting off the radio kick, I aired down at the trailhead and rallied up the trail solo making decent time. Being memorial day weekend I did hit some trail traffic, but it wasn't bad since most that were up there were already set up in campsites. I've actually never seen so many up there before. But I knew as the trail gains in elevation it gets steeper and rougher than the lower sections. I was right there weren't many up above. I didn't take any video since my wife relocated my GoPro's in a cleaning frenzy. Cell coverage was decent on the lower part of the trail so I turned on IG and went live for a while until the cell coverage was lost.

Climbing up through one of the sections of the trail that goes through a previously burned area from a fire a few years back.
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Five minutes within arriving at the campsite the truck barfed the gear out and the top popped up.
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Hanging out.
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It was also the maiden trail ride for John's son Gino's new ride a 2019 ZR2 Colorado. It's a gasser which will prove to be less problematic over the 4 banger dirtymax version. It did great on the trail, but he needs to get the AEV skids for underbelly protection. These are great little trucks that we've sold a few of. Very capable out of the box.
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I have to say I love being able to camp and sleep off the ground. Having the furnace proved to be awesome because the temps dipped deep in the 30's overnight.
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Storm was happy to be cruising around camp checking things out.
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Dinner was simple, John and his wife brought the burgers dogs and brats and I put the campstove into action to grill them up for the group.
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The back of the camper and the bumper proved to be a good serving station too.
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The run itself was pretty uneventful. I had actually made it 80% up the trail in 2wd and grabbed 4hi only when the steepness and loose rock required more traction. The drive down was good. Only issue with the truck is the turn signal switch won't stay locked in on right-hand turns. I'll grab a switch at work and swap it in before we go. The camper itself is pretty set and storage dialed in. I'm still amazed at the radios with the range and clarity they have over CB. One of the group had to get out of dodge quick as we aired up since rain was coming and they were in a Jeep with only a bikini top. They were 20 minutes ahead of us on the road and we still could communicate with them like they were within eyesight of us. The upgrade in radios should prove to be great on the desert trip with the group.

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nice pics looks like a great time and nice to 'shelter outdoors' for a change im sure