post up your camping pics

[dieseldawg142]

snagged this tree on the way down...completely ripped the whole antenna right out of the fender...oh well, i usually listen to cd's anyways

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tooling around an un-named mountain in my back yard wit the dawgs today

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i swear, Rumbledawg is sooo like Diesel.
he followed me up this downed tree


someone really blew the hay out of this box with a scattergun

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was a little nippy up at elevation...time for a fire

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while warming up around the fire, we heard a monstrous crash in the bush about a hundred feet from us. so we headed up the hill and found this tree over. 'bout 5 ft in diameter and around 70-80 feet long.


and heading home...

[Richard2112]

Wow, dieseldawg142!. That looks like a fantastic time and gorgeous place to get away from it all. I'm envious! Makes me wonder why a person would go home. Out there it looks like all your needs are met.

[1976gmc20]

I always enjoy dieseldawg's pictures!

Amazing how some of that inland country is so much drier than the the coast. That part looks a lot like Montana.

[Greasey Harley]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

a pair of nesting eagles at the river
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came across this sweet '80 Elco for sale on the way home.
my son got his license last jan, been looking for a short square 4by...or an El camino. too bad no one was around to see it or get some info on it...he really needs a 4x4 anyways...
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Roxie really enjoys truck riding
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My first car was a 1980 El Camino (1992)
The first engine I ever rebuilt (1996) is still in that car and still runs, My uncle owns the car now. I like 1980 El Camino's

[v30crewcab]

Nice pictures!

[best view]

No shortage of firewood and no double masks but it’s sad they leave the shells there ,hope you had a 6 pack with you

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by Richard2112

Wow, dieseldawg142!. Makes me wonder why a person would go home. Out there it looks like all your needs are met.

if i didn't go home, my wife would come find me ...'bout 30 yrs ago was coming back from buddy's stag and was prob over the legal limit. rather than wrap my k5 into a tree or run into johnny law, i went down a gravel road, threw some mud holes, across a field and threw some foot deep puddles and found a nice little hole in some brambles to back into. climbed in the back to sleep it off, don't know how long i was there, but the next thing i know my wife is banging on the door. how in heck she knew where to find me, or how in heck she got her car, a friggin' pontiac firefly, down there is all beyond me....guess she has a sick-'err- sixth sense about me...
but is all good, 11 yrs, 3 months and 12 more days to retirement and i can stay out there permanently...

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

I always enjoy dieseldawg's pictures!

Amazing how some of that inland country is so much drier than the the coast. That part looks a lot like Montana.

is the west coast geography gmc. from Nor Cal threw Oregon, Wash, BC the weather hits the coastal mts and dumps the majority of it's rain and snow on the west side, very little makes it over the mts, hence it can get pretty dry on the other side

Originally Posted by Greasey Harley

My first car was a 1980 El Camino (1992)
The first engine I ever rebuilt (1996) is still in that car and still runs, My uncle owns the car now. I like 1980 El Camino's

nice!
if it was a 4x4 Elco, we would be all over it like ugly on a ape

Originally Posted by v30crewcab

Nice pictures!

thanks crewcab!

Originally Posted by best view

No shortage of firewood and no double masks but it’s sad they leave the shells there ,hope you had a 6 pack with you

last yr or so we must have had some city people move out here. never used to see this, but lately been coming across TONS of spent shotgun casings all over the bush...lack of respect for the woods i guess...

[dieseldawg142]

dicked around wit my busted antenna today...was hoping the stud got broke and maybe left a few threads to re-attach...nope, broke the stud off the actual mount


well the gmt400 antenna are not like the the older rigs where you can reach in threw a fender hole to change it. unless your fingers are a 1/4" wide and about 6" long, only way i see to change it is to take off the fender....nope, aint that important to me.
some body sealer to keep the rain out and my rube goldberg fix...

[1976gmc20]

is the west coast geography gmc. from Nor Cal threw Oregon, Wash, BC the weather hits the coastal mts and dumps the majority of it's rain and snow on the west side, very little makes it over the mts, hence it can get pretty dry on the other side

Yeah, I know eastern WA is like the Sahara (I wanted to ask them how many years to the inch of rain? lol) but back in the late 1970s I drove up/down through McBride and Prince George and the change didn't seem that dramatic. It all seemed pretty wet and green compared to Colorado, but we turned off at Kitwanga and up through the Cassiar (both ways) so I never got down to the real coast (except for a stop at Stewart on the way back).

Coming back I picked up a couple backpacking/hitch hiking at Kitwanga and they were headed down to Vancouver for a Folk Music festival. I just almost drove them all the way down there but I left them at PG and continued down to Jasper and Kootenay NP where I did some backpacking and met some folks that I still correspond with today. I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't see that Quesnel and Williams Lake cowboy country. Only just a few years ago I ran into the Rich Hobson books!

[dieseldawg142]

know the area well gmc.
was born in Dawson Crick, lived in PG too.
also lived in 100 Mile House, Eagle Creek area, a few miles south of Williams lake.
love driving the Cassiar, we quadded into the Cassiar mines from Jade City one yr, was an awesome ride, stayed at Boya and Watson lakes a few times as well.
Salmon Glacier on the way to Stewart is pretty awe inspiring too
been saving money for another trip up there in the near future.
any of these these signs look familiar?

[dieseldawg142]

a few old shots from one of our runs on the Cassiar.
the bridge shot is over the Stikine river

[dieseldawg142]

made a run up the Stikine to Telegraph creek one year...

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our old place on Resort road, Eagle creek. 45 acres


quite often deer would be munching our grass


Moose Lake, just north of Taweel


funny you mention Williams Lake, my wife so wants to move there, mostly cause she can get a transfer there for her job. for the last yr we have been scoping out places to live around that area.
i would rather move to Tatla/Anahim lakes area...Willie's puddle is a little too flat for me, i NEED the mountains out my door...

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

know the area well gmc.
was born in Dawson Crick, lived in PG too.
also lived in 100 Mile House, Eagle Creek area, a few miles south of Williams lake.
love driving the Cassiar, we quadded into the Cassiar mines from Jade City one yr, was an awesome ride, stayed at Boya and Watson lakes a few times as well.
Salmon Glacier on the way to Stewart is pretty awe inspiring too
been saving money for another trip up there in the near future.
any of these these signs look familiar?
...

Oh, yes ... I remember Boya Lake quite well

Those signs are probably new since the late 1970s.

We stayed at a private CG at McBride to get showers, and then next night at McLure(?) Lake along the Yellowhead but it has a "native" name now. I was pulling a travel trailer along with a huge load in the pickup bed so it was pretty slow, and the Cassiar was still under construction so lots of stop/wait and rough road.

So we ended up stopping by the first Bell-Irving bridge. It was brand new then and only a couple of planks laid down over the primered steel. Pulled down into a steep "parking lot" and ran the rear wheels of the pickup up on some big old timbers lying around to somewhat level the trailer.

I remember they had a little ball field with a couple benches labeled "Dease Stadium"

And then Boya Lake. Didn't see much of the lake itself because it was about dark when we got there. Took an evening walk, though Coming out of there we got separated from the other couple in their car and didn't catch up to them until almost the Alcan Hwy. I thought they were behind us and kept slowing down while they were trying to catch up!

Coming back south a couple years later just me and my dog I followed mostly the same route. The Cassiar highway was a lot better by then. I picked up a lot of hitchhikers. It was a different world back then.

[dieseldawg142]

them sign pics were taken around '98 with my my old kodak Instamatic 110, if you google map them, most of them are still there, but a little more worn and faded now.
last time we were on the Cassiar, it was prob about 40-50% gravel and we passed 1 rv and 1 C500 Kenworth the whole trip...ya, it WAS better back in the day..never saw any hitch hikers though
at one point we stopped to let the mutts out and heard this crashing threw the bush, put the dogs back in the truck and watched this calf moose come stumbling and running out of the bush. a few seconds later we hear an even bigger crashing, what now?, and a black bear come out of the bush chasing the calf. Wow, that was pretty cool, 2 seconds later we hear an even LOUDER crashing in the bush...what in hell? all of a sudden here comes momma moose chasing her calf and the bear...supper time, Cassiar style i guess

same with Boya, we showed up and there was 2 or 3 other campers in there. wife starts cooking some steaks and i go for a walk around, wondering why no one is around, it's still light out. go back to the truck and look at the clock and it's 2 am, but bright as heck out. July long weekend, like 20 hrs or so of sunlight- took some getting used to.

McBride is another place we have looked at property too, i used to haul shake blocks up to Valemount, love the scenery in the Rocky Mountain Trench, just gotta have them mountains ya know..

[1976gmc20]

We went up the Cassiar in 1977 and I drove back down in 1979. I haven't been over the Medicine Line since.

I picked up a guy in the YT - some junction, there was a big bridge there - and he rode with me all the way down to Stewart. Camped in little tents somewhere along the way, way late because it didn't get dark. Then picked up a nice couple when I hit the Yellowhead Hwy. They had been backpacking in Kluane NP, so I guess I just missed them earlier. They rode with me to PG and bought me a tank of gas and breakfast. We camped at a pull off sometime after it finally got dark. There was a nice little grassy spot next to where I parked the pickup. A few hours later there was an earthquake and lightning! Turns out we pitched our tents about 10 feet (3 meters - ha!) from a railroad track

Oh, and going north the four of us in the camper we stopped at some place, might have been Boya Lake. My kitty ran out the door, and in the middle of the night we wake up hearing Meow! GROWL! Meow! GROWL! Meow! GROWL! Somebody opened the door and let him in and he didn't want to leave the trailer even after we got to Alaska!

McBride was a also pretty spot. I couldn't believe how big the Fraser River was even at that point. I backed the trailer up to the trees right at the top of the bank.

[dieseldawg142]

typical frikkin' spring weather...work yer butt off all week in nice weather, then come the weekend, your time off and the weather takes a dump...
well good day to do an oil change on the stepper i guess...but first i gotta warm up the engine.
took the mutts up to a part of the valley haven't been to in quite a few yrs.

[dieseldawg142]

normally i would just drive over these...


but i got time today. don't have my chainsaw wit me today, but i do have this...



this puddle surprisingly came halfway up the tires..

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little spur road that petered out..


there's the road down in the bottom of the valley


actually got to see a bit of the mountains

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the road ended at a cutblock landing. good a place as any for a fire..


hard to belive i'm surrounded by 7-8000 ft mountains..

[dieseldawg142]

cool. maybe this cloud will lift..


nope, guess not...



passed this old A100, little blurry, photo on the fly..