post up your camping pics

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by snj8198

How recent are these pics? Any snow there yet? If I remember you are just north of me in BC. This has been a very mild starting winter out west. Last year at this time I was half way to my knees in snow logging and 30 below. November was the coldest month of the winter here.

yeah, we just in the last couple days got a pretty decent snowfall on the mountains, prob a couple feet plus, Cheam mt behind me has had some near the top for the last month. but it's where i like it right now, at about 1500-2000 ft, can go play in it but dont need to shovel it
just checked the weather, freezing level is supposed to drop sun, mon, tues....

[DEISS]

Camping out in the foothills of Johnson Valley.

[MTCK]

Nice spot. Clean looking blazer too.

[DEISS]

Nice spot. Clean looking blazer too.
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Thanks, it's a nice cruiser. That area was super secluded, we got rain and a little snow that night.

[dieseldawg142]

yup, nice blaze DEISS
went up the Coquihalla today, headed for Bighorn peak, or more or less how far in we can get to it...
sky looks good, headin out


sky is clear, but it's pretty cool out, supposed to be the last day of another arctic outflow. lots of icicles hanging off the mountains

[dieseldawg142]

the usual puppy pit stop at Hunter creek


Hunter is sorta frozen, making it wider


more ice hanging on the mountains at Hunter. temp is getting cooler going up the mountain

[dieseldawg142]

huh....don't belive everything you hear or read...
my "not supposed to freeze" wiper fluid seems to be freezing on my window..


may curse the snow sometimes, but it sure adds a real nice beauty to everything. some sights on the way up

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some more of the sights...was actually talking to the rv guy at the rest area, trailer was just being delivered


getting a little chilly out. dawg was starting to turn into a pupsicle riding in the back...i think he is a little happier now (he is 11 next month)

[dieseldawg142]

at the rest area. snow is starting to get a little deeper

[dieseldawg142]

coming up to the brake check


some of the mountains around the brake check

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at the brake check


quite a bit of snow here. this drift was 12-15 feet high

[dieseldawg142]

a good amount of snow

[dieseldawg142]

want to head over into that valley


sled tracks all over the road here


getting further out

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just like it says...not plowed, just the snowmobilers. sometime luck overrides stupidity... looked hard, but the sign was as far as i got. just a crust with soft under it. luckily it was only about a foot when i bogged. trusty shovel time...


don't get this, there is'nt a house or playground around for about 60 miles

[dieseldawg142]

me and dawg decided to hike in


did'nt get very far. good thing the truck bogged when it did. about 200 feet in me and dawg started breaking threw the sled tracks....i was still not touching the ground, and my boots were filling up with snow. even dawg was having a hard time floppin' threw it


more ice heading home

[dieseldawg142]

heading home...


bad news ran out of wiper fluid halfway down the Coke. good news that "not supposed to freeze" junk is out of the tank...


and one last pit stop for dawg at Laidlaw, more ice hanging on the mountain

[DEISS]

Camping out in Johnson Valley this weekend, got a little rain but otherwise it was really nice. Dang iPhone, maybe a moderator can rotate the pic for me, thanks.

[Jeff's bowtie's]

Here you go

[MTCK]

Cool K20 what are the details?

[DEISS]

Thanks Jeff's bowtie's.
It's a 76 custom deluxe, 468, t400, np205, 4.10's. 76k documented miles. Rust free, mostly original paint. Pretty much a running project.

[dieseldawg142]

been off work last 2 days at home feeling like carp with a horrible cold.
today i decided to make myself feel better...lol
went for a drive up Harrison lake east FSR, it's only about 20 mins from my house, literally in our back yard, but i have'nt been up there since 1991. it's a beautiful area, but the yahoo's from Vancouver turn the whole area into a real gong show every weekend and all summer, so we just have'nt bothered going there in awhile..
last time we were there was in '91 with my then young wife in my '76 K5, we drove to Shovel creek road, which is a very remote back way into Nahatlatch valley. driving that road you go prepared, extremely rough, there is NO ONE around, no type of cell service, it would be a hurtin' place to break down...planning on going up there in a couple months once the snow lifts...
polaroid scan from 26 yrs ago....that blob in the foreground was my thumb..


down at Harrison lake before the FSR


let dawg out at the boat launch, yeah, it's a ferd, but not too bad...

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run into these wannabe's on the way up with there yuppy-mobiles, they stopped at the gravel. guess their roadside assistance does'nt cover wiping the dirt off their mudflaps...


with the snow meltdown and the logging trucks, the road was bloody rough- pothole city. and not just regular potholes, logger potholes, foot, foot and a half deep, sometimes more...


Echo island, and Cascade Bay

[dieseldawg142]

some sights on the way out... Mt Breakenridge in the distance



tons of waterfalls all over the place

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Rainbow falls, 'bout 60-70 foot drop



old dawg still enjoying goin' out...

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i think these little forays keep old dawg young.. it was his kind of day...


road was real sloppy, made a mess of the truck...