post up your camping pics

[dieseldawg142]

broke my stepper the other week. took the mutts up the mountain


somethin' in there...


a couple seconds after this pic i was going over some rocks when i heard a slight snap. got out and looked, everything seemed alright, went to keep going and the truck headed straight for the edge and would'nt steer, something was jammed. after another closer inspection, noticed the idler arm was snapped, and it somehow hit the cv joint boot and ripped it off too.
once again i had to back down a mountain with little to no steering...quite often it would jam and i would have to go forward to un-jam it. drove it 30 miles home like that. was not bad as long as the road was fairly straight or had nice wide sweeping turns. it was the 90 degree ones that caused probs. would come around the corner, it would jam and head for the ditch or the curb. a couple people prob wondering what in hell i was doing, heading for the curb, stopping, and backing up against them to try un-jam it.
so it sits in the driveway till i get my income tax return to buy more parts.........

[dieseldawg142]

so i put the crew back on the road


bummer! this road has'nt had a gate on it in 30 yrs...wonder if it's because of the virus thing


so let the dawgs run around.
Roxie and Rumble are up this hill


it's actually steeper than it looks


and here come Rumbledawg full bore down it....

[dieseldawg142]

have been dumping alot of green into the green machine lately. new tires (!!) new batteries, and some new inner fenders
old ones were rusting by the rear double plate mount


out wit the old...


....and in wit the new


finally getting everything good and last night my stereo started acting up......another chore to the list....

[dieseldawg142]

took the fam damily up the canyon last weekend...getting corona-bored-virus.
seen some neat cars
pretty sweet ford 4x4 van


amc ambassador ragtop


and a very nice '68 Power wagon


wife was having a conniption, she hates heights...(tee-hee)

[dieseldawg142]

some views on the way


stopped at the river, is very low till the spring thaws

[dieseldawg142]

stopped at this river, had a fire and some smokie's


amazing how fast they grow up....both


can ya spot the two mulie does?

[dieseldawg142]

was quite a few miles out in the bush....


and came across someones tree fort. what's most amazing is someone actually packed all this waaaay out here...
i only went up a couple rungs on the ladder, it's made of 7/16 plywood (!?!)
not scared of heights, i'm a roofer, more scared of sub-standard construction...lol
someone was really brave, or really has a lot of confidence in their "development" skills...

[dieseldawg142]

spent the day letting the dawgs splash around the swamp

[dieseldawg142]

corona-bored again...
as my dawgs can't see over the fence, they get bored


soooo, had some scrap lumber kicking around....


now they can see over the fence (lots of people use the field behind us to dog walk) and have'nt touched the yard in a week....optimistically hopeful


Rumbledawg loves sitting up there. every morn he's catching rays as the sun rises

[MTCK]

Nice work on the fridge install! Bummer about your steering but at least you picked a time to drive the crew when oil is under 30 bucks a barrel...

[1976gmc20]

wife was having a conniption, she hates heights...(tee-hee)

I remember the first time driving over the Nass River bridge! Was towing a travel trailer and the road was very narrow back then. Come around a corner through the trees and there it was! Not much for railings back then, just a timber curb. Not much time to get lined up straight either. I've seen recent pictures and it's like a super-highway now although still single lane.

Also a little farther north the first Bell-Irving bridge was a brand new steel replacement for what had apparently been an old log bridge down closer to the river. There was no deck at all on the bridge, just a pair of planks for tire tracks laid down on the steel beams! We pulled in and camped on a steep clearing just to the left on the south side. Drove the back wheels of the pickup up on some timbers to level the trailer. It's all filled in and/or grown over now, but the same round top steel bridge is still there.

That was all back in September 1977.

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by MTCK

Nice work on the fridge install! Bummer about your steering but at least you picked a time to drive the crew when oil is under 30 bucks a barrel...

thanks MTCK!
ya, can't complain about fuel
dual 20's on the crew, last yr it cost me about $200-220 to fill up, yesterday it cost me $58 bucks to fill one tank- loving it!

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

I remember the first time driving over the Nass River bridge! Was towing a travel trailer and the road was very narrow back then. Come around a corner through the trees and there it was! Not much for railings back then, just a timber curb. Not much time to get lined up straight either. I've seen recent pictures and it's like a super-highway now although still single lane.

Also a little farther north the first Bell-Irving bridge was a brand new steel replacement for what had apparently been an old log bridge down closer to the river. There was no deck at all on the bridge, just a pair of planks for tire tracks laid down on the steel beams! We pulled in and camped on a steep clearing just to the left on the south side. Drove the back wheels of the pickup up on some timbers to level the trailer. It's all filled in and/or grown over now, but the same round top steel bridge is still there.

That was all back in September 1977.

my wife is deathly afraid of heights. more than 2 feet off the ground and she goes into panic mode...should have seen her on the open chair gondola lift at Banff the other yr...don't think any amount of talking or cajoling would ever get her on another open chair lift..

took the mutts up by Welch peak, weather was beauty-ous!


hiked up about a 1000 feet to this old dam that was used to power steam donkeys for logging back in the early 19 century. date on the concrete was 1910

[dieseldawg142]

sorta nice view from the dam


good shot of Rumbledawg lookin' all handsome....


....but not for long...he rolled in something. not sure if it's deer poop, bear skat or what, but it sure was gushy...and stinky

[dieseldawg142]

up in the mountains and snow today..

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been on a bit of a downer last couple weeks after finding out my parents passed, so said the hay wit it and took the fam dam and quads out to unwind a bit.
heading out


poser shots...


heading up to Sowerby peak

[dieseldawg142]

parked here cause there was wash outs all over the mountain from last winter's snows. might have got the crew over some of them, but the trailer would definitely not make it...


first slide we hit....and my son picking his way over it on his Arctic cat

[dieseldawg142]

this little rock slide was not bad, just ran down the road


and another slide to get over


logs too...

[dieseldawg142]

nice little crick to cool off in, mid to hi 80's.


if you look closely, you can see my son's winch line....


got my quad completely hung up on them big rocks, the 2 of us could'nt lift it out of there...


getting higher up...right to the snow line. the kid drifting thru some snow

[dieseldawg142]

well, we're not going to be able to ride to the top of Sowerby.
our snow is extremely wet and heavy. once your on the skidplates, you ain't going forward anymore...


so we back tracked up Hunter valley, but this was as close as we could get to Sowerby

[57taskforce]

Looks like an awesome time. Later this summer I’m gonna try and take my K20 for a weekend trip up to my in-laws camp in the mountains here. I’ll have to add some pictures here if I do.

[MTCK]

Dang man very sorry to hear about your folks. That’s brutal. Amazing photos as always.

[Zoomad75]

Sorry for your loss Dude. I can only imagine how you feel over getting news like that. But mountain runs are good therapy. It looks like a good time.

Gearing up for an overnighter up on a familiar trail we've done many times this weekend. I need to have a test run before we head to Utah next month. I need some mountain time myself. Between work and dealing with the virus business, it's going to be good to be off grid for a weekend.

[3757chevy]

Originally Posted by Zoomad75

Sorry for your loss Dude. I can only imagine how you feel over getting news like that. But mountain runs are good therapy. It looks like a good time.

Gearing up for an overnighter up on a familiar trail we've done many times this weekend. I need to have a test run before we head to Utah next month. I need some mountain time myself. Between work and dealing with the virus business, it's going to be good to be off grid for a weekend.

Enjoy the Weekend , Not sure what I get to do.