post up your camping pics

[JURKFASE]

i traded my jeep cj7 for a 91 burban so I could have a little more room for the girlfriend and dogs. Plan on doing alot of camping in it when spring rolls around and it warms up a little. How about some pics of your truck, blazer, jimmy, or burban in the campground, pulling your camper, or getting back to that remote spot to hold me over for awhile.

[Plunkett]

Do you have any pictures of your jeep? It sounds pretty nasty.

[JURKFASE]

I will post some up when I dig em out. It was just a mostly stock, low mileage, original 85 CJ7 RENEGADE with a 4.2L 258 I6 and T176 4 speed trans. No lift yet, new 31X10.50's and a new bestop. It was my dd and a real solid southern jeep. Needed some cleanup under the hood as the PO made it a rats nest under there. Had big plans for it, but found a burban I wanted and made a trade. I miss it, but love my burban.

[Plunkett]

Sorry, I meant to ask for pictures of your suburban that's in your signature.. I have no idea why I put jeep there.

[JURKFASE]

Originally Posted by Plunkett

Sorry, I meant to ask for pictures of your suburban that's in your signature.. I have no idea why I put jeep there.

heres some pix of the burban. Gettin ready for some new metal and paint soon. Not pretty now, but she'll go anywhere.

[DirtyLarry]

Congrats on your Burb!

Oh, I have lots of pictures like that! Overlanding and camping is what my truck was built for! It sees a lot of CO, UT and AZ back roads. Here are a few of many pictures from our journeys.









Tuweep – Grand Canyon - Arizona Strip


100 Mile Canyon – Grand Canyon- Arizona Strip


Valley of the Gods - Utah

More Valley of the Gods - Utah


Hole In the Rock – Mormon Trail - Utah


More later…

[str8axle55]

Great pics so far.

Glad someone got that Burb, read the build thread, killer rig.

[JURKFASE]

Originally Posted by str8axle55

Great pics so far.

Glad someone got that Burb, read the build thread, killer rig.

great pics fer sure. Dirtylarry has just made me very jealous, but thank you for helping to tide me over for awhile.

Keep em comin.

and yeah, the previous owner built this burb right. I'm loving it so far, runs and drives great, and the inside is almost new. It's my dd, but I'm hoping to have it painted by the end of summer.

[special-K]

Assategue Island,VA in '82:


Do swap meets count? I camped out here for four days:

[Zoomad75]

Here's one of mine and DirtyLarry's truck on a weekender near Mirror lake in the Colorado Rockies.

[Zoomad75]

Another one with Bill's extinct Ramcharger.

[DirtyLarry]

Yeah, great pictures....that was a fun weekend…..except for you! Unfortunately, it was the same weekend you barber-poled your rear shaft on Old TinCup. We winched and tugged Rob for 2 miles to the Summit of TinCup pass where he drove home the rest of the way in front wheel drive.



As a side note......Our other buddy's (Bill) extinct ’83 Ram Charger lives on in the form of a ’92 Ram Charger. Swapped over geartrain (ARB’d Dana 44/60) and winch bumpers into newer sheetmetal. Easy way to fix body damage and get a fuel injected engine and OD trans. This truck is coming along on Desert Trip 2011 this coming July.



The old blue ’83 went to the crusher...



A few oldies before I got the shell. Prolly around 2003 or 2004. Grizzly Lake – Chaffee County, CO. This trail is one mean SOB in a full-size truck!


Another old one.


Packing up after a cold night – Taylor Lake – Chaffee County, CO


Desert Trip 2010 – Canyonlands – Utah









Favorite camp spot of desert trip 2010 – Ekker Butte, Utah – Canyonlands




Absolute unbelievable view! Awesome place! This spot is an 8 hour off-road trail from the nearest highway. The nearest town by way of roads is 120 miles. Don’t break anything!


Camped at Moab. Moab is a joke. That is where trailer queens go to wheel…real Overlanders go to Canyonlands to camp and wheel for 7 days at a time out in the bush like we did. We had to swing by Moab to see what all the hoopla is about. Wasn’t impressed. FOUR WHEELER and 4-Wheel & Off-Road can keep it.



GPS download from 2009 Desert Trip: (SPOT pages load slow!)
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view?trip_id=172579

GPS download from 2010 Desert Trip: (SPOT pages load slow!)
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view/?trip_id=213659

If you are seriously into the Overlanding type of 4wheeling check out http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/. The site is not for the CK5, Pirate4x4 type crowd, rock crawlers, mudders, etc. The site is intended for people that really use their rigs for extended off-road travel. That site is my second favorite online hangout.

My topper is actually in process of being replaced with a full-on custom made off-road camper being built by Phoenix Campers in Denver to make living quarters more comfy on these long distance trips. Hope to take delivery of it by April 2011. Pictures will be appearing shortly after!

[Zoomad75]

Yeah we can laugh about that splattered driveshaft now. In the words of my 14yr old gamer son, that was an "epic fail!". Even worse was the fact that somewhere in that stupid rockpile did I realize my wallet was MIA. I was half tempted to drive back down to the campsite to look for it. The impending storm coming over the ridge was a dose of reality to just stick with the group. The ride from the summit to St. Elmo was fun with what was left of the rear shaft clanking like a cowbell every time it rotated. I found the wallet when I was putting the tools from pulling the remains of the shaft back in the rear of the truck. It was stuck between the bumper and fuel tank skidplate and rode all the way over the mountain in that spot.

At least the fishing was better up there than it usually was. Still was fun despite my stupidity.

[special-K]

Man,I miss living in the west. Lucky bastids!

[MikeS]

Originally Posted by special-K

Man,I miss living in the west. Lucky bastids!

No kidding! I bought my Blazer in 1990 when I was living in Colorado and was just married. We made lots of great off road camping trips into the mountains in that truck. Moved back east in 1996 and have barely been off road since. Man I miss those mountains!

[72BlckButy]

Amazing pics there Larry.

[chas350]

Always look forward to Larry's annual pic's

[alwaysbroken]

holy crap that blue chevy has been every were. wow nice truck

[Zoomad75]

Originally Posted by alwaysbroken

holy crap that blue chevy has been every were. wow nice truck

I'm sure he's got that Johnny Cash song "I've been everywhere" playing on his ipod when he's out and about.

[DirtyLarry]

Originally Posted by Zoomad75

I'm sure he's got that Johnny Cash song "I've been everywhere" playing on his ipod when he's out and about.

In fact, I do have that song on the Ipod.

[Zoomad75]

Dang we've been hanging out for a long time for me to know that.

[propanemudtruck]

Sure doesn't look like you guys have any fun with those trucks...

[DirtyLarry]

Originally Posted by propanemudtruck

Sure doesn't look like you guys have any fun with those trucks...

Indeed, we do. Say, the tall skinny guy in some of these pictures is from G.R. He flew out to join us on our trip this past summer. There can’t be that many 10 foot tall 120 lb goofy dudes walking around G.R. He is also the guy that painted my truck when I lived in Detroit.

[Zoomad75]

Originally Posted by DirtyLarry

Indeed, we do. Say, the tall skinny guy in some of these pictures is from G.R. He flew out to join us on our trip this past summer. There can’t be that many 10 foot tall 120 lb goofy dudes walking around G.R. He is also the guy that painted my truck when I lived in Detroit.

If you don't know the skinny dude, you've probably seen his nasty little S10 rolling around town with a 350 and 3 tone paint job (green/blue/white). The S10 is usually frying the tires off the rear end at stop lights.

[propanemudtruck]

I'm willing to bet I've seen him somewhere! Seems like the more people you talk to the more you get to know pretty much everyone into wrenching! Our S10 has perfectly good tires on it, not sure how he could turn them with the V8...