Truck Camping Photo Thread

Actually out towards Vantage, WA
This...Eastern Oregon

 

Thats the name I was looking for. Did some rock climbing out there years ago. Basalt pillars .. The Fingers??? Rattler country.

 

Forgot to post here but this was New Year Eve Camping. Very peaceful and slept great in the RTT!

 

Smoky Mountains

 

Nice.

Smoky Mountains...
North Carolina or Tennessee?

 

Both, we went through both states

 

Home, sweet home.

 

What part do you live in?

 

A stones throw from TN border in NC

 

we came over by slick rock wilderness

 

Nice.
Don't tell anyone how purty it is.

 

45 minutes east of Asheville.

 

Finally found some peace and quiet- at a gun range!


I’d been considering a small parcel of BLM land in eastern Washington for a truck camping, get-away-from-it-all quickie.

The final approach entails an ass-jarring journey down the motheriest mother of all washboardy gravel roads (MOAWGR) I’ve ever encountered.

I get to the site I previously identified on Google Earth as the most promising, only to find that large boulders have been recently placed blocking access.

Undaunted, I proceed along the MOAWGR.

Mercifully, the ass-jarring only continues for another ½ mile until deliverance- an accessible, flat, isolated expanse of grasslands; that also happens to be a gun range:





Cursory ground gleanings:

They shot the legs offa Ol’ Paint! The unidentified beast to the left had his head blown “clean off” (ala Dirty Harry).






The sliver sunset fell at just the right angle below the Taco striking spent semi-clear shotgun wads and clay bird fragments, begetting this art shot I titled “Wads Aglow” ............the muse was upon me.




Got down to 20 F degrees at night, howling coyotes, “billions and billions” of stars, and a mystery animal (bird?) periodically going “whoooop”:




The sun rises, the frost yields:




Ponds and marshes to the east provided long choruses of red-wing blackbirds punctuated by geese honks.
Didn’t see a soul until mid-morning of the following day:

 

Wandering Washington winter wastelands

Another get-away-from-it-all quickie on BLM land in the Columbia Basin:



arid scrub/grasslands:









got down to 5 F at night; coyote city- howling all around, all night:

 

Nice!!! Did you use a heater, or just a good bag, or just freeze your azz off....

 

A Columbia cove quickie

quickie one-nighter along a large cove of the Columbia River in northeast WA:











basic bag o' bread breakfast:

 

Nice.

 

What tent is that, looking for something similar.

 

It's the Topper EZ Lift Nomad tent. It's spendy but perfect for my needs.

https://www.topperezlift.com/index.php/product/the-nomad-camper-package/

 

Coming up on my first summer of having two kids. First we had just a dog, a 75 pound lab, so I yanked out the back seats and built him a platform back there. Then after our first was born I put in the driver's side 40% seat for his car seat, and left the passenger side 60% platform for the dog. Now I will have to put the other seat in for the second car seat.

Those of you with two kids and a dog, how do you it? Is it possible, or is the dog just going to have to stay with the in laws when we go camping? I do have a cap, but I don't like the idea of the dog back there, plus space is limited back there anyway. I guess I know the answer, but just hoping maybe someone smarter has any ideas.

Dog for the points: