post up your camping pics

[dieseldawg142]

thanks MTCK
guess it is true, a bear does sit in the woods....

[snj8198]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

thanks MTCK
guess it is true, a bear does sit in the woods....
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[dieseldawg142]

loaded the camper the other day, holidays come this sat


first day of rain in like 3-4 weeks, wonder if it will be enough to lift the fire ban...doubt it
actually dont matter, wife went and bought us a "campfire"
one of them propane thingys, fire ban legal. her theory, whats camping without a fire? i guess, but i dont get to feed it or "play" with it.....

[jeffahart]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

whats camping without a fire? i guess, but i dont get to feed it or "play" with it.....

Haha. I'm with you. We make such gnarly fires in the desert that you can't get near them. I had myself a 6' fire poker made. The black smith at the Ponderosa at Lake Tahoe made it for me way back when. One of my prize possessions!

[snj8198]

good stuff

[MTCK]

Great pics as always DD. Finally got my set out this weekend. Pic is at about 1:30 AM.

[dieseldawg142]

hey...nice pair MTCK!
is that a toyhauler beside the camper?
c'mon now, don't be a bogart, share some of that beautiful AlaSka countryside with us...
this was our t. trailer at Boya lake (couple miles from the yukon border) on july 1 at 11:30-ish at nite....


only being up there for a couple weeks, it was a hard (and weird!) thing to try adjust too...

[MTCK]

Great pics guys! You're right Dawg that's a buddy's toy hauler. Good luck kicking the smokes.

[dieseldawg142]

going on 6 mos MTCK!
quit mar 18, tough, but i'm done wasting 20 bucks a day on them....
i also learned a couple things today. one, i'm old. not the go-anywhere young buck anymore, just a 50 yr old roofer...hiked close to 30 miles today, with almost 4 of them strait up and down, and man oh man, i'm really feeling it right now. also learned a bear banger can work pretty good too...
our province has been burning big time this yr. the smoke from wildfires has blanketed the valley again, can barely see the mountains around my place


so i decided to get out of the smoke today, and headed up the Coquihalla.
seems to be some smoke at the bottom of the Coke too..


you never know what you'll run into on the Coke, like this truck-less load of 2x4's going up in flames


lots of construction going on the Coke right now. fixing the bridge at Dry Gulch

[dieseldawg142]

headed up to Vicuna/Guanaco Peaks
first glimpse of Guanaco


it's a bit of a drive in...

[dieseldawg142]

road is starting to tighten up, left some more paint out there...


and this blows, still 12 miles to go and it aint going to be by truck....

[dieseldawg142]

upon closer inspection, pretty sure the stepper don't have the clearance to drop off one log, and up the other...not really interested in finding out being a solo run, yeah my truck riding buddy Dieseldawg is at home. he's still recovering from his cancer op.


and here's where i made my first screw-up, thinking i can hike all the way in, up the mountain, and all the way out...a few spots the road was'nt too bad

[snj8198]

how's the smoke up there? any fires?

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by snj8198

how's the smoke up there? any fires?

oh man SNJ, this is now offically the worst fire yr on record up here.
in 2 months over 2.4 million acres gone up. and the worst part is most of them are caused by people being IDIOTS. a lot of people have lost their houses, barn's, vehicles, pretty much the opposite of what is happening to Houston. We would LOVE to take some of that rain off Houston's hands....our backcountry literally explodes it's so dry
around where i live we're lucky and only have 1 fire going right now. We have a big lake (Harrison) near us, so water bombers can get on top of them pretty quick, but with our mountainous terrain, it's still a big challenge... and the idiots are a challenge too. some yahoos lit up Bear Creek at Harrison on july 1st. the fire crews told the people camping at Bear creek, Silver creek, and Cogburn beach to evac. When the fire crews went in to fight the fire, they had to stop and put out 3 unattended fires from the campers-like jeez, how stupid can you be?
they almost have it under control now, 'bout 70%, then last Sat (can ya belive this???) some bigger idiots went up there and lit up another fire. it's only been blasted all over the tv, radios, newspaper, massive fines, and they still do this...
just saw on the news, normal rain for july/aug-75 mm (3") this july/aug so far-10 mm (.3")
smoke comes and goes depending on the winds. some of the fires burning are so massive (Elephant Hill, half a million acres) they create their own winds, and when it's outflows, we get smoked.
we just went through 3 weeks of this at the beginning of the month
surrounded by 8000ft mountains and can't see a single one


smoke really made the sun red in the morning, redder than my cam can do..


this is one of our job sites at 1 in the afternoon...


ha! check this out, but it was'nt plywood..
http://www.100milefreepress.net/news...la-southbound/

[dieseldawg142]

jeez, with the humidity it's climbing over 100....we just can't seem to catch a break
much too hot to be in our non air conditioned house, so took the fam damily to Andy's lake up the Coquihalla. took wife's truck too, so nothing but pavement and gravel roads....
when i went to Vicuna last week, there was 9 choppers parked in this field (fire fighting). only 3 today but no traffic so i snapped some pics. looks like (not a chopper expert...) a huey, and a bell 407 and a bell 212


this thing was parked across the street (nice e-brake...lol)


and with the kid, had to once again stop at McDicks. while sitting in the drive-thru line up, this thing rolled up. i got no idea what it is. looks like some kind of redneck road grader rat rod...it had 4 slicks on the arse end, but was gone by the time we got thru the line up...

[dieseldawg142]

the usual puppy pit stop at Hunter creek. sure is low with no rain for a couple months...


just deep enough for dawg to cool off his belly. he's still quite slow from his cancer op the other week


handed the cam off to my son to get a pic of me and dawg. should have known better....


here's what i was really after... (the little turd...)

[dieseldawg142]

Nak and Yak peaks at the Zopkios brake check


we take the Brookmere exit and head back down south again
some nice country, really quiet, did'nt pass no one

[Zoomad75]

Here's a quick report of a run I made a couple of weeks ago with some friends, my wife and son as well as my Nephew. He's in the Black Rubicon and had not wheeled off road as a driver before. He's ridden with me, but never drove so he wanted to come out with us.

We hit 3 trails over three days. Day one, Tincup pass. Day two, Reno Creek/Italian Divide. Day three, Pearl Pass. Each day the trail got progressively harder.

The other two rides with us are friends of ours, the red Jeep we had just added a 2.5" lift and a fresh clutch a month earlier. Other than that it's stock with a 4 banger and open diffs front and back. The Yellow TJ is loaded with ARB's front and back and all the other goodies.

Airing down on Tincup.

100_1213 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Climbing.
100_1220 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Summit.
100_1232 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

View from the top.
100_1238 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Mirror Lake below Tincup pass.
100_1269 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Campsite #1
100_1276 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Heading up Reno Creek.
100_1286 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

What a view.
100_1287 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Getting close to the top on day 2.
100_1289 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

American Flag Mountain. Look close and you'll see a truck still on the side of the mountain.
100_1293 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

100_1295 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Start of Pearl Pass.
100_1302 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Climbing throught the trees.
100_1306 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Valley of green.
100_1307 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Pics really don't illustrate how steep this trail turned into. Glad I'm running fuel injection.
100_1316 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Nearing the top.
IMG_20170820_113233258_HDR by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Looking back towords Crested Butte to the west.
IMG_20170820_114108502 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Still got snow in mid-August. Actually this pass doesn't really open until this time of year due to snow on the trail above this area.
IMG_20170820_114541951 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Summit at 12,705.
IMG_20170820_120714906 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Not much parking up here..
IMG_20170820_120813094 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Long way down. 18 miles to Aspen.
IMG_20170820_120828207 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Looking towords Aspen.
IMG_20170820_120834414 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

High mountian meadow.
IMG_20170820_123846707 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr

Fun trip.

[MTCK]

Great pics, Rob! K5 looks like it is doing exactly what you want. I'm expecting to see a write up on that FWC pretty soon as well as Desert Trip.

[snj8198]

Cool pics Zoomad! I would sure like to make it down that way for high elevation wheeling at some point.

[andyh1956]

Beautiful country there!
Yall see any Elk while you were out?

[Zoomad75]

Great pics, Rob! K5 looks like it is doing exactly what you want. I'm expecting to see a write up on that FWC pretty soon as well as Desert Trip.

Outside of my overheated fuel system acting up again, it walked over everything. Pearl Pass is rated difficult and I agree. Steep, narrow and rocky going up and down. I drove right over every inch of it without cracking the throttle over 1500 rpm. It just crawled and that front tru-trac just pulled through every tight spot. It's so cool to just finesse it over the rough stuff than beating it like a rented mule and hammering over stuff.

The FWC has been something I've been searching for a very long time. I'll update the build thread with some new info. I need to finish wiring up the report for the desert trip. I'll I can say is it was epic. Most fun I've had on 4 wheels. That says a lot as I've done a lot of stuff with 4 wheels.

Cool pics Zoomad! I would sure like to make it down that way for high elevation wheeling at some point.

Always ready to show another around. I'm sure we are going to do more weekend trips in the future.

Beautiful country there!
Yall see any Elk while you were out?

We saw a lot of cows. A lot of the area we were on is open range. Saw a few smaller white tail deer, but no elk. Moose is in the area too, but didn't see any.

[dieseldawg142]

wish i could see all your pics Zoomad
don't know if cause i'm running vista or flikr dont like me, but i'm only seeing 2 jeeps cresting a hill, your blaze by a lake and 2 mountain pics- looks stellar though!

[Zoomad75]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

wish i could see all your pics Zoomad
don't know if cause i'm running vista or flikr dont like me, but i'm only seeing 2 jeeps cresting a hill, your blaze by a lake and 2 mountain pics- looks stellar though!

I can see them all on my end. Might be vista. Funny you can see some but not all as they are all on Flickr.

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by Zoomad75

I can see them all on my end. Might be vista. Funny you can see some but not all as they are all on Flickr.

i actually clicked on the numbers and your name, went to flikr and the little circle thing just kept spinning and spinning, nothing loaded for me. it also seems to happen on my model site, but just with 3rd party picture posting, pics posted right onto this forum still come up no prob on my computer
it's prob my set-up, it's a '06 or '07 or something Gateway, ya know, the black and white cow computer.....wife keeps saying i need something more modern....scary...