Truck Camping Photo Thread

We currently have a R-Pod but are considering one very similar to this one. The weight is giving me a little pause, the length only 2 feet longer is giving me more pause but it does address everything we don't like about the R-Pod. Short list but glaring in a few areas.

 

August 30, 2019.

...And then, a trip-changing discovery. As we were wrapping up photos in this exact location - and frankly, as Mike was likely wondering how he could get around us so that he didn't have to put up with our shenanigans - I happened to glance down between the spokes of my rear driver-side wheel... and what I saw took the air out of my sails.

Read the full story in Whipsaw Trail 4 - My Trip-Ending Discovery

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And check out the full story:
[part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]


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...I don't know how useful this post will be, but it's not uncommon that people ask me some version of how I got comfortable going off into the great outdoors as much as I do. Sometimes it's about how I got started; sometimes it's about how I am able to do so many trips; other times it's about how I developed the ability to feel confident in dealing with anything that comes up on the trail.

So I wrote a thing. It seems good, or at least seems like me.

How I Got Started with Offroad Adventuring

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A couple buddies and I went up to NorCal for some deer hunting. 2 tacos did the trick!

 

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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