post up your camping pics

[dieseldawg142]

once the snow melts off, would like to go up Lady, it's about 200 feet higher


wanted to get a "wow" pic at the edge, but dawg screwed that up. he chased a cheam chipmunk out onto a snow precipice, with a 6500 foot drop to the valley floor beneath him. everytime i went to the edge, he was right behind me, looking for the chippies, i REALLY should have brought his leash for up there, he was making me so dam nervous jumping around the edge....


what a way to spend the day!! (Cultus lk in the background)

[dieseldawg142]

heat wave continuing, so up the mountains again!
one minor drawback with a lifted truck....with the ramps on the t.gate, the wheels lift off halfway up, even with my face stuck to the front fenders....


this guy followed me for 15 miles- nice truck!


there's where i'm heading


theres the road down there, & the cross ditches are getting pretty severe, so this is as far as the crew goes. no use beatin' on it anyways when i got the quad...

[dieseldawg142]

much easier loading/unloading in the bush, just back into a hill


some of bc's infamous cross-ditches....
used my old canon sure-shot. my wife actually got me a go-pro last christmas, but being a complete computer dweeb, i have been waiting for her to set it up & show me how to work it. think i might try figure it out myself, tired of getting footage of my handlebars....plus it sucks muscling a 650 lb machine over rocks & logs with one hand.....never would have bogged it at that one spot otherwise.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKH8RFH4A7w

[dieseldawg142]

rode all over up there, right to the end....


pretty much the end. and yeah, i did go in about 200 feet before i whacked my leg on a rock & said the heck with it.....

[dieseldawg142]

just spent a week at one of the most remote lakes in the coquihalla region.
heat was just intense. day we left, temps were nudging 100, hottest we've had in yrs. going up the coquihalla is 4-6% for about 15 miles, then kicks up to 8-10% for another 5 or 6 miles. somehow we tipped the scales at just under 16 k, even though we were light 200 lbs this yr. (my beloved passed mastiff...) i did bring a lot of extra fuel on this trip though. (good thing-forgot the rods! )
just before we hit the "smasher", where the road ramps up, with the weight, temps, & grade, even the mighty 454 was feeling it, ran up to 207 degrees. first time ever, i decided to pull over & let it cool down. after 20 mins, we hit the hill & it never broke 205 all the way to the top, we did pass about 8 cars & trucks that did'nt make it- tow trucks were having a field day....
hiding in some shade cooling down, dawg also cooling down....


they been putting up new transmission towers nearby, so most of the way in is quite nice, just not a lot of places to pass-but never ran into anyone anyways


pretty skinny, runty little doe....

[dieseldawg142]

nice drive, nice views. see the smoke in some of the pics? forest fire broke out about 200 miles away- got a lot worse.....


last few miles were rough, & narrow. nothing crazy, but still 8 ft wide, 12 ft tall, 40 ft long, & blah, blah, blah. i did make a short vid, but it turned out like toilet. was holding my old canon, & with the potholes, it was all over the place.....

[dieseldawg142]

here we go
this is nice, be liking it


a nice clearing with some shade at the end of the lake & a table
un-hook the trailer & get set up...