post up your camping pics

[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...

[dieseldawg142]

able to launch the boat a few feet from the truck. see the crappy little dock.....


again, only 10 minutes & the boy is buzzin' around in the boat


we found this old submerged dock, & muscled it over to ours. was my fav spot to sit every nite & watch the fish jump, of course 'cause i dont have my rods....


someone went threw a lot of work to haul in & build the slide dock. sure was nice, kid used it, & after i "'weisered" up, i too went down the slide


my submarine dawg...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Gq...ature=youtu.be

[dieseldawg142]

woke up the second day surrounded by 1/2 ton heifers & their calves. there's a cattleguard near one end of the lake & free range beyond that. about 40 of them broke the fence beside the cattleguard(pathetic fence-1x2 with some barb wire...) so me & my son got to play cowboy & herded them back where they belong, & did the rancher a favor & drove some logs into the ground & re-strung it. didn't mind them, but did'nt like their calling cards...& they did not like dieseldawg. must have thought he was a coyote, they kept lowering their heads & charging him, prob from dealing with the coyotes, which we heard howling every nite
noticed they had a WC brand on them- Wandering Cows??


and with the temps & fires burning, there's a complete fire ban on right now-BUMMER!
so this was our "fire entertainment", he loved the strawberries & cherries the wife left in the fire pit

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we rode about 20 miles to this lake. the smoke from the fire a couple hundred miles away is getting real thick....blotting out the mountains, & really stinking


again, out in the middle of nowhere, is this beauty of a throne. it's got a vinyl floor & a color matched seat. wonder if thats how the lake got it's name, Jon-o....


smoke was getting really heavy later that day, sun was a blood red-orange-ish
dawg did not like it


it was so dry & dusty.
p.o.'ed the wife on the way back from Jono, she was about to vid a 'coon till i dusted that up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uudd...ature=youtu.be

REALLY dry & dusty, come across this one stretch of road....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJU...ature=youtu.be