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Ultimate Camping Thread

Discussion in 'Outdoors' started by davestaco, Oct 9, 2010.

  1. Sep 12, 2013 at 2:50 PM
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    scocar

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    More like East Cal. This is North Lake in the Bishop Creek watershed, just west of the town of Bishop on Highway 395.

    A bit north of Mt. Whitney.

    Shhhhhh......

    No, you've been camping way too much lately. It's my turn now. You need to stay at home and do boring projects around the house for months.
    Shouldn't you be darning your mittens and stockings for the coming blizzards?
     
  2. Sep 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM
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    :pout: But I wanna go camping...
     
  3. Sep 12, 2013 at 5:48 PM
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    You should. Before it gets colder :eek:
     
  4. Sep 12, 2013 at 5:50 PM
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  5. Sep 12, 2013 at 5:54 PM
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    What's cold got to do with it? I'll be camping through October (hopefully)
    Well I'm still gonna go here in a couple of weeks...should be about prime time for hte colors :cool:
    [​IMG]
     
  6. Sep 12, 2013 at 6:22 PM
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    Sept/Oct it could snow or not-great time (in my opinion).

    That spot looks really nice too.
     
  7. Sep 15, 2013 at 5:14 PM
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    Home sweet Home.
     
  8. Sep 16, 2013 at 1:16 PM
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    Yeah, I think it is coming early this year. We were planning to go on Columbus Day weekend, but now we are moving it up a week and going the weekend of the 5th and likely won't go all the way down to Bishops and the higher elevations, and instead try lower elevations based on color change progress. We've been to Lundy many times, but never overnighted there. Great beaver ponds for reflections way back in there. We are overnighting there this time, and hitting Silver Lake, and likely doing a long hike up McGee.
     
  9. Sep 16, 2013 at 1:51 PM
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    Have you been to Red/Blue Lakes? I have been scouting through the Adventure book too. Last year, Carson Pass looked pretty nice but didn't hit the peak I was looking for-I was wondering if either of these two areas were a possibility.
     
  10. Sep 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM
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    I wish to go here. One of you will take me yes?
    [​IMG]
     
  11. Sep 16, 2013 at 2:38 PM
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    Can't quite make out where that is. Looks gorgeous though.
     
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    Thousand Island Lake in the Ansel Adams Wilderness.
     
  13. Sep 16, 2013 at 3:05 PM
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    I looked. That's off of the June Lake Loop and about 15 miles or so for the trip. Really pretty area. Pacific Crest passes by it.
     
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    I've been around Blue Lakes area and Carson Pass mainly in the summer for crazy wildflowers, but not in the fall. And Hope Valley is right there, too, which may become our new "let's get the heck out of town for one night" destination...

    Banner/ 1000 island lake. Been there, done that....just down the JMT a few miles is Ediza and the Minarets. VERY cool.

    A marmot or chipmunk ate through my cooking pot stuff sack at 1000 island.

    Trailhead access at Agnew Meadows near Mammoth. Or you can hike from Yosemite...
     
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  15. Sep 16, 2013 at 3:31 PM
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    Hope Valley is pretty nice. We had a rally down at the campground next to the store/food place. Wasn't bad. Though it's right next to the road, it was pretty quiet.
     
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    If you go out along Blue Lakes Road, it is much nicer, and there are campsites along the creek. There are also some forestry roads farther out, but I've only explored one.

    EDIT: LOL in fact, my sig pic is in the big meadow just west of Raymond Peak, which is accessed from Sunset Lake Road
     
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    blue lakes area is awesome, there are tons if trails all over that area, as it's pretty much all NF land. We spent a week canoeing, hiking, fishing, off roading, etc tons of stuff to do.
     
  18. Sep 16, 2013 at 5:47 PM
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    Thanks for all the feedback on Blue & Red. I might take off and head up there sooner rather than later.
     
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    Not sure if this is the correct thread for this question, but my girlfriend and I are looking to go camping sometime soon and need suggestions of good locations. We would like to keep it as dispersed/primitive as possible but I can't find much in terms of legally just pitching a tent in the areas we would be looking. Our boundaries are Mid-Atlantic.. Maryland to NC. I live outside of DC and she is down in Charlotte for law school, but we met at Virginia Tech (SW VA) and she is originally from that area.

    I know there are a lot of campgrounds in Western MD in the Appalachian mountains, but from my experience they are majority family oriented with the whole lights out/curfew/quiet hours/only one car per site/yada yada yada. I LOVE the Blue Ridge mountains after spending 5 years down there for school and I know there are sites along the parkway but from what I hear they are pretty crowded and really just people camping overnight during road trips/hiking trips.

    Does anyone have any experience in our area or have any suggestions? I love camping and really want to start going more often.
     

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