post up your camping pics

[3757chevy]

Sorry for your loss dieseldawg. Thanks for sharing your adventures with the rest of us.

[v30crewcab]

sorry about your friend. my two dogs are real old now, one can hardly walk, and the other is diabetic, and can't see anymore. They both used to start whining when I opened the back door of my crewcab. they knew we were going somewhere. they could tell if it was the front or back door opening!

[dieseldawg142]

thanks 3757chevy...i do miss him not kickin' around...

ya, it really bites when their short lives start winding down Crewcab, this is the "hard" time of K-9 ownership....
been three weeks since Dawg passed and had not planned on more dawgs till prob next month or so, but today i put my name on the rescue list for some ultra cute rottie/lab puppies that were found beside the highway...(grrr!!!)
there is one little girl in their that looks just like Diesel, it would be pretty fine if i could snag her!
Dawg was also a rottie/lab, also heard of some rescue mastiff x puppies (just like DixieLou!) but they are about 400 miles away- each way....

[dieseldawg142]

new paint on the crew and new dawgs to fill it...lol
took the puppies to the river for the first time in their lives today

figured i'd keep them away from the main river for now and try them in this little crick


Rumble is the big one, he's a pyrennes/rotti/lab and growing at a crazy rate. he is 9 weeks old and 30lbs already- eats like a horse
near him is Moe, a 9 week chihuahua, and the close puppy is Roxie, she is a little over 7 week old rotti/lab, and a real cutie


came across a puddle, what do we do? well Roxie surprisingly was the first to splash threw...

[dieseldawg142]

hmm, water, what do we do now?


coming guys? Rumble's in

[MTCK]

Holy cow you got a pack!! Grill guard looks real good as does the paint.

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by MTCK

Holy cow you got a pack!!

well, you know MTCK, go big or go home...

[3757chevy]

Good looking crew . Looking forward to more adventures and your great pics.

[v30crewcab]

thats funny. my old lab mix, jumped into water following another dog, and scared her. hated getting anything but her feet wet after that.

[dieseldawg142]

at the river with the mutts...
Rumble learned all about gravity..lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_1VvULX-Ak

[Zoomad75]

With a new Desert trip a month away, I finally started processing footage of the trip from last year. Here's the two I've got put together so far.

https://youtu.be/4BeBJbiC6IE

https://youtu.be/WBUU3iHFE_M

[MTCK]

Enjoyed the heck out of all three videos, guys. I’ll be web wheeling until my camper truck returns with another new transmission... I’m not paying for this one at least.

[Zoomad75]

We did a test run for a Desert trip last weekend. Here's a look at the highlights.

https://youtu.be/ERWOA7M8FsE

[Zoomad75]

My buddy's 8.1L/nv4500 powered M1009 on tons. It was the first major run on a frame up rebuild. It had a couple of teething issues, but nothing we couldn't manage.


Mud below 9500 ft, snow up to 11,500 ft. Higher we got, the deeper it got.





Then I hit a deep spot. High centered the whole thing on some glacial hard snow. Took the Jeep and Taco tied together to have enough holding power to winch me out of said hole.




Good prep run for the trip. I've got a couple of items to shore up in the camper to keep the rattles to a minimum.

[rpmerf]

Not a 4x4 and barely off road, but here's my camping picture from last weekend.

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by rpmerf

Not a 4x4 and barely off road, but here's my camping picture from last weekend.

Great pictures! Looks like a nice area.

[Zoomad75]

I missed out on Larry's Desert trip this year. Really bummed me out but I had to cover for a co-worker who's father was dying. So all that prep went nowhere until last weekend. My Jeep buddies were making a quick overnight run to a local high mountain lake with family. I had to work on Saturday morning, but I was only an hour away from the trailhead. So I brought my dog to work with the truck packed the night before and headed out once I closed up.

Some changes have happened to make for more efficient use of space and time when in "camp" mode. One of which is the Chuck Box. This is all the cooking gear in one Pelican Case. Get to camp, yank it out of the back and pull the stove and table out to get cooking. Plus it's weather tight and dust proof to stay outside.


Changes inside include a new bench and a way to eliminate the bulk of coolers. Yep I got my own Fridge. ARB 50L. One of the guys from the desert trip upgraded and had it for sale. I was going to pick it up on the trip, but since I didn't go, the boys brought it back for me. Gamechanger for sure.


Happy Doggo ready for adventure!


Since the group had gone up much earlier in the day than I did, I ran the trail solo. I didn't stop and take many pictures from the outside as I just wanted to get up the trail. This is at the Bottom of the Rainbow Lake trail.


Gaining Elevation, you can look back into the valley I came from. Also, many burned trees in this area from a fire 8 or 9 years back. The Aspen Trees are coming back in force.


Close to camp, they set up at the edge of this creek.


Once in camp a few minutes and it's all set up. Beer:30 time.


Storm and I walked down to the lake to check it out for the fishing. The lake is higher than anybody I was with there could ever remember. Record Snow levels from last winter have many of my favorite trails still closed. The lake is so high there is no shoreline. It's up to the base of the mountain on two sides with a scree field of rocks/boulders making it a challenge to navigate. My buddies tried for hours and didn't get a bite.


Further across the lake.


Looking back at camp.



Oh yeah I finally did something about my grill..


Storm exploring around the creek.



I offered up to cook for the group. I carry a 20lb propane bottle in the camper so no running out of 1lb coleman bottles. Jeeps can't carry what I can..


After Dinner my buddy Shane takes up the BB gun to protect the camp. He's a nut.


My view from the bunk the next morning. Storm was warm and toasty. Never turned the furnace on since it was so warm overnight.


Morning sunlight on the lake.


Coming back down. This spot is significant to me and Larry. We had come up here May of '17 to prove out our rides prior to the Desert trip. There was three snow banks that led up to this spot. Without going into full detail again, Larry's truck had both right side tires off the trail right here. I was able to extract him with my winch and we backed down to a wide spot to camp for the night.


The snowmelt runoff is very heavy for this late in June.


Dropping in elevation again, the valley comes back into view.


I would have liked to be out longer, but longer adventures will come later this summer. It was good to get some dirt on the tires though.

[special-K]

Yeah, where was that?

Not off road, not in a tent or camper, and not far away from civilization, I did a job on a 1925 cottage along the Severn River near were it enters the Chesapeake Bay and I camped out in my Suburban for four days. I used their crab traps and caught dinner while I worked all day. I did the cooking and eating on their little point of land. It was quiet and peaceful in the evening through the morning. All day the sounds were of people going out on boats, coming in, and swimming at the beach and docks next door

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by special-K

Yeah, where was that?

Not off road, not in a tent or camper, and not far away from civilization, I did a job on a 1925 cottage along the Severn River near were it enters the Chesapeake Bay and I camped out in my Suburban for four days. I used their crab traps and caught dinner while I worked all day. I did the cooking and eating on their little point of land. It was quiet and peaceful in the evening through the morning. All day the sounds were of people going out on boats, coming in, and swimming at the beach and docks next door

Pretty country! Not a bad gig.

[dieseldawg142]

nice area Zoomad
looks like Storm is living it up!

been spending a lot of time at the river with the new dogs lately. they've become hard-core bush/river dawgs
no fear at all of watah

[dieseldawg142]

yup, Rumble & Roxie are becoming real waterheads...

[dieseldawg142]

not just river dawgs...


swamps are good too...


Rumble actually jumped up about 3 feet off the ground and finished pulling this sapling down...

[special-K]

I was up at my mom's in the mountains two weekends ago and I caped out. Nothing vehicle related. I hiked upstream along the Youghiogheny River and tent camped. It rained to beat he!! that night and the river was rushing and at a high level. I took two pictures in the morning before my battery died. It rained 3-4" that night

[Zoomad75]

I'll leave this one here... Went to Moab for Blazer Bash. Wheeled hard, camped and repeat. Full trip report coming...


This is one camper that can crawl too.

[MTCK]

That’s just mean to tease like that. Hope you didn’t spill your coffee!