Truck Camping Photo Thread

Leave the kids @ home?

 

got a couple night's away with my kid

 

More Mobile Makecamp Miscellany

Olympic National Forest, overlooking the Hood Canal
looking for a get-away-from-it-all quickie,
climbed up an unmarked logging road off a Forest Service rd to find a choice spot:






a moonless night filled with billions of stars and millions of horny frogs croaking in wetlands below;
next morning:



a sudden cloud shroud:

 

Dog crate in the back and put excess gear in a cargo box on a rack?

 

Not an apples to apples comparison but we built a platform between the front seats to bridge the gap to the back. Might be worth a try??? But ours wasn’t 75lbs. As kids got bigger I bought a 92 FJ80 Landcruiser…best decision ever. Seating for 8 or 4 with lots of room for storage. It lasted through high school, new drivers, and everything that the western slope of Colorado could throw at us. Miss it…wish I still had it.

 

I can't help with the two kids, Im still trying to figure that one out for myself, and those car seats take up stupid amounts of room, but we had a good sleeping platform that I carpeted in the bed of ours and our dog liked being back there it seems. we had screened windoors on the cap so there was plenty of airflow if it was needed. we also slept back there with her at nights. we had plenty of storage for week long driving/camping backpacking base camp runs under the platform. we have a 100 series land cruiser im trying to figure out right now, IF the wife ever agrees to sleep on the ground or in a fancy tent again. apparently 2 10lb babies in 2 years will make sleeping less easy. my bad.

 

A Juan De Fuca quickie

squeezed in one more "get-away-from-it-all" before a forecasted spate of bad weather,
Olympic National Forest, northern foothills of the Olympic Mountains,
found a cozy pulloff overlooking the Strait of Juan De Fuca:

 

Carrizo Plain National Monument over the weekend.

 

Exact same situation over here. Duke rides in a bed in the back when we go camping. I have a single bed platform that I run most of the time and then I have a camping tote and cooler that I put in the bed as well. That leaves exactly enough space for his bed that I cut just a little bit to fit around the wheel well. Honestly now that he’s 13 I think he prefers this to the backseat. It’s flatter and more comfortable for him. When we load up at camp he goes right up the tailgate and requests help for his 13yr old back legs, which I happily provide!!!

 

This is what I will likely end up needing to do. For now I took out the 40% seat and also the storage cubby behind it and am in the process of building the dog a spot here. It isn't the biggest but I think it will work. Ended up buying two car seats that are supposed to both fit on the 60% seat.

 

nice. My boys weee next to each other in the 60% seat for a while so I’m sure you’ll be G2G!

 

More Mobile Makecamp Miscellany

Entiat Mountains, WA
a "get away from it all" off a Forest Service Rd
sun starting to get intense, had to seek shade- temps 75-80







only got down to 35 F at night: half moon and stars aplenty



the glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum) covered forested slopes:

 

A Lenore Lake Leerfest

Central WA, Columbia Basin,
overnight quickie at a public boat ramp,
had the whole place to myself and I didn't even need to dig a cathole :















besides the geese and ducks, numerous seagulls were wailing, making for a somewhat incongruous milieu:




initially, a quiet 3/4 moon and stars night; 10PM it becomes very windy with spectacular lightning as some T-storms roll through,
at times the truck would violently wrench combined with a sensation of slightly being lifted off the ground- what a trip!

next morning:

 

No issues stealth camping there? I always figured they knock on the door in the middle of the night and make me move along. It is fairly remote there though.

 

Overlanding aka truck camping last year out in San Bernadino National Forest

 

This past weekend, Oregon Inlet Campground in Nags Head. Last time using the

$1,099 OzTent RV3 Oztent 30 Second Expedition 3-4 Person Tent (42 Lb) 8 ft(W) x 6.6 ft(D) x 6.6 ft(H) + 6.6 ft(Awning)

OzTent RV3, Upgrading to the iKamper Skycamp 3.0 in a few months.

 

Where’s this at

 

Looks like a good spot.

 

I may be letting my ikamper go if you’re interested in buying one used. I would let it go for 2500. It’s brand new, been used a couple times. I live 1 hr above Asheville.

 

it was a good spot especially if you have a lot of trucks with you. only negative is it's right off the main trail so you might hear other trucks coming up the trail. but we had zero traffic when we went during the week. Burns Canyon Trail 2N02