post up your camping pics

[dieseldawg142]

nephew is getting married tomorrow, so me and the boy went for a quick drive today

yup, that's the Ladner creek bridge again...(up the Coquihalla hiway)


brought recovering dawg with us.....

[flashed]

Wow ,very pretty up there .

[dieseldawg142]

thanks flashed, but the snow is coming....
too nice a day to waste, took dawg and just cruised around my back yard.
some of these are prob familiar, was all over the valley today...


Slesse creek, waaaay low right now



thought about going to the hatchery, but they probably remember dawg from the last time........5 or 6 yrs ago he somehow got threw the bird nets on the juvenile steelhead tank and was having a field day. had to even get one of the staff to help lift diesel out of the tank...

[dieseldawg142]

far end of the valley


these 2 full bore Can-Am Wildcats passed me at about 50, and the (!??!) chevy astro van ahead of me....could hear him scrappin' and draggin' threw all the cross ditches. when i passed him in a bit, he gave me a budweiser wave...

[dieseldawg142]

chipmunk creek

[dieseldawg142]

[snj8198]

not a bad back yard!

[RANDY COX]

This is me and my grandson camping on the New River in Va...Last yr...

[dieseldawg142]

after getting dumped on last dec with snow, jan was our 4th wettest. after 24 or 25 straight days of rain, we finally got some nice weather, sunny, but cold, a small artic outflow at our end of the valley. got the whole family out, even the wife was getting a little stir-crazy wit all the rain and came out for a hike...


put a day permit on the crew and headed for Mt Lindeman area.

[dieseldawg142]

we're hiking now, dawg is lovin' this...he has been so bored the last month, stuck at home...


wit all the rain last month the snow level has gone up, almost nothing at lower altitude. maybe get up the mountains on the quads earlier this yr



still some good snow higher though

[dieseldawg142]

it was cool out, we were walking on these neat little ice things, that is ice, looks like a shroom stem or something, but it's ice


cool enough we stopped and built a fire

[dieseldawg142]

a little more snow around Lindeman

[Dsuper5]

Orange Cliffs, Glen Canyon NP

[86454k30]

Here is a throw back thursday from about 1982. This is my Dad's that he bought new and sold in 1985. I found it and bought it back last november.

[B. W.]

Well, I'm still mourning the fact we still have over a foot of snow on the ground! But, here's some pics from last year - island camping on Hungry Horse reservoir: (and one hunting camp pic from a few years ago)

[Zoomad75]

My future camping adventures will be a lot more comfy in this. Still need to finish it, but it will see dirt this summer. No more sleeping on the ground for me!

[B. W.]

Like that alot, compact enough you can still use the rig. I camped alot out of K5's. I made screen "windows" that fit in place of the rear glass. Roll the rear glass down, open the tail gate & slide the screen up into the window track, close the tailgate. It would have been nice to have more headroom though.

[Zoomad75]

Originally Posted by B. W.

Like that alot, compact enough you can still use the rig. I camped alot out of K5's. I made screen "windows" that fit in place of the rear glass. Roll the rear glass down, open the tail gate & slide the screen up into the window track, close the tailgate. It would have been nice to have more headroom though.

I've tried sleeping in my K5's a couple of times. First was in my 75 where the back seat was not removable. My son took the back seat and I tried sleeping in the passenger seat with it leaned all the way back. Horribly uncomfortable.

I did sleep in the back of the 91 last year on our validation run prior to the desert trip. Other than unloading the majority of gear I brought with me so I had enough room to stretch out, it was more comfy than sleeping in a tent on the ground. But the idea don't work when I'm out for more than a night or have a passenger. The entire truck needs to be unloaded to allow for space to sleep.

I'll have safe heat in the camper, standing room and a soft bed. It should be awesome.

[dieseldawg142]

grrrr...i hate this new computer....
me and the boy "un-wrapped" the camper today. lost my storage so we built a frame over it, some plywood over the top, double tarped it and what not. worked cause it came thru our winter sitting outside with shining colors. we will need it in a couple weeks


but until then....been stuck inside the house off work for 2 weeks with pneumonia, going bat poop stir crazy, and our spring finally arrived today, said the hay with it, grabbed my 85 yr old dawg (human yrs...) and headed for Mt McGuire.
stopped at my bosses house, he has this nice little '68 shorty with a 406 sb, soon to be going LS


heading up the valley, there's McGuire there by Slesse


just an awesome day to be up the valley..

[dieseldawg142]

turn off to McGuire


road was just wet and a little mucky, no challenge for the crew, lots of hi-water with snow run-off, had to drive thru a couple creeks


stopped for dawg at one of the creeks we drove thru

[MTCK]

Great pics and story as always. Hope you feel better soon.

[dieseldawg142]

took the kids new quad out yesterday....fills up the trailer quite a bit more than his old Polaris...


went up the valley to the old Centennial Trail, which has now become part of the Trans Canada Trail (also known as the Great Trail) a 15 000 mile trail from the Pacific ocean on one side of Canada to the Atlantic ocean on the other side of Canada with a side trek up to the Arctic ocean...much like the Pacific Crest trail in the USA, just a lot longer (which also ends about 30 mins from my house)..
https://www.postholer.com/google-map...-Crest-Trail/1
https://thegreattrail.ca/explore-the-map/

everything is running high right now with the snow meltdown..


some other people out with SXS's and atv's enjoying the fine weather

[dieseldawg142]

nice day to be out tooling around the bush...


a nice spot to park, off the beaten path, right beside a little swamp lake for dawg too cool off in...

[dieseldawg142]

...speaking of....( the water is actually well over his head, he's standing on another log...)


and no diesel, that log is a little too big for you to drag in....


the Trans Canada trail used to be multi-use pretty much everywhere around our place, but that seems to have changed now....which i think is pretty stupid, atv's are what keep the trails open, ain't enough hikers ever walking them to keep them from reverting back to nature.....beyond here is foot or bicycle only now....i'd just keep on riding up it if my son was'nt with me...do'nt want to start him on the road to bad habits in the woods though...

[dieseldawg142]

but as it turned out, this was pretty much the end of riding for me today.... wife's quad...


run into an old buddy of mine (worked with him in the early '90's!) camped by Williams peak, which came in handy for me...


left my atv with him and had wife double me back to the truck so i could bring it in closer to where my buddy was camped.....


because i got a flat. i hit a rock real hard and the tire went flat pretty much instantly, could'nt see anything at first, so i figured i knocked it off the bead. at first i took some starter fluid and tried to re-set the bead.


after messing around with it some, this gash reared it's ugly head....and right in the middle of the sidewall.........so much for this tire. jammed a couple plugs in it, lasted 'bout 20 mins under riding, split kept getting bigger.....held air long enough to get it on and off the trailer....my day is done-bummer...another 3-400 hundred for tires now....crewcab paint job keeps getting further away......