Truck Camping Photo Thread

Just pulled over for the night north of Patagonia.

 

Brings back memories of fishing and canoeing on lake Patagonia when I used to visit my grand aunt in Tucson.

 

Really beautiful view here. Didn't see any deer but saw tons of sign. I'll have to come back some time when I can spend more time.

 

california

 

Damn that looks perfect... Wish I was out camping right now...

 

Well, it's not every day that I get to go camping with my dad, and it's not that often that I camp in the same spot for more than one night. I mean, I guess we camped in the same spot two nights in a row on the Idaho BDR when a brake caliper seized up, but that was clearly an exceptional situation! Plus, after last year's adventure - my first time experiencing one of Pops favorite spots in the Sierras - I knew this was a place that I wanted to return. Likely, for years to come. It really is a special place.

So, early in the summer, we arranged a week where we could get together and just go enjoy the outdoors. I forget exactly when that was going to be, but as seems to happen in life, life got in the way and we had to cancel. It was a bummer to say the least, so it was awesome that a few months later we were each able to squeak several days into our schedule to pop down to ************* for a few days.

Read the first part of the story and see all the photos:
Into the Sierra Wilderness





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california is really full of gems. it blows me away

 

But expensive living!! I love it here!

 

And sadly led by inept governance.

 

...Ready for our hike, we ran into a bit of a pickle - neither one of us had brought a pack...

One might say luckily - but anyone who knows me knows that it's just due to a lack of fashion - I was wearing my camo cargo shorts, and I was able to stash my water bottle in one pocket, my sandwich in another, and still have a couple open for camera stuff. Pops, much more fashionably dressed - in some khaki cargo pants (lol) - did something similar. And we set off!

Check out the full story, and what I discovered at Lost Knife Knoll - in Into the Sierra Wilderness - We Set Out On Foot

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With frequent stops, and another longer stop for lunch, it took us several hours before we finally set off on our final approach to Blackhall Mountain. In the end, it was another long climb - the summit, at 10,974 ft - just missing the mark we'd achieved earlier in the day.

But the craziest part of the day had already happened. You can read all about it in
Redhead Down #2: WTF, There's a Bat in My Tent!










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[part 1] [part 2]


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September 18, 2019.

Too soon, we were through these distracting, colorful, Alders. Luckily it wouldn't be our last encounter with these beautiful trees, and besides, we were making our way up and around what we hoped would be another cool peak to add to our list of places we'd driven to the top of: Hahn's Peak. Visible at the top, an old lookout - no longer staffed - called to us to visit, and we made our way around the base of the mountain as we looked for a way up.

Read all about it in Redhead Down #3: We Cross into Colorado







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[part 1] [part 2] [part 3]​

 

In and out of the trucks, we ultimately covered some 27 miles in just under two hours. All on reasonably graded gravel roads, we eventually saw Eagles Nest and Mt. Powell in the distance before we decided at about 6:00pm that we'd found a reasonable camp site and were going to call it a day, Brett - ever looking for the poser shot as evidenced by the #overlanding stickers on his #GFC - flexing his way the last few feet into camp.

Read the full story and get the low-down on 'the Gram at:

Redhead Down #4: Follow Me on the Trail, Not on the 'Gram








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[part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]​

 

Definitely love that sticker

 

Couple shots of my new rig from this summer.

1st pic was from Mid-Atlantic
2nd pic was Finger Lakes National Forrest
3rd Pic was our double secret spot at ExpoEast this year.

Haven’t had this new camper very long, 3 months but so far it’s INCREDIBLE.

best part we went last weekend down into some state land and it was down in the high 20’s at night. Kept the camper at 65 all night with the Diesel Planar heater, happiest my wife has ever been camping

 

September 20, 2019.

...Eventually, we found ourselves at the top of Cottonwood Peak. -ish. There are a couple caveats here worth mentioning. First, no road actually went to the top. Second, even the highest point of the road wasn't technically the top of the peak - it skirted along the southwest side by a few hundred feet - both horizontally and vertically.

And that was just fine with Brett - more than fine in fact! He jumped out of his truck and immediately challenged Monte to a race to the top. Of course, Monte being only slightly competitive meant that we really had to twist his arm to get him to accept the challenge.
Right. And on the count of three, they were off.

Find out who wins in Redhead Down #5: The Race









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[part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5]​

 

Chetco River, Oregon

 

September 21, 2019.

...Of course, we all made it - Monte declaring that this was even narrower than the back side of Webster Pass - but not without a casualty. Brett had been hugging the uphill side of the trail so tightly that he'd punctured his front, driver-side tire on a rock. It wasn't severe enough that he had to change it right there on the switchbacks, but he scooted his truck up to the top while the rest of us paused for a moment to snap an #instafabulous photo or two at a top-of-the-world sort of overlook, Red Cone in the distance.

Redhead Down #6: Chihuahua, Webster, Red Cone and Radical!​

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[part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6]

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Snoqualmie, WA Area

Black Rock Desert, NV

 

September 22, 2019.

...As we all set about our normal evening activities - prepping our tents and getting the fire pit ready - Brett had something else in mind entirely. This was a site worthy of a custom bench. However, unlike many of the locations we'd been, there was relatively little beetle kill here, and so he headed off with his truck to find - and drag back - the trunk of a dead tree. And then, he set to work with the chainsaw.

It's all covered in Redhead Down #7: The Day We Made a Bench​

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