post up your camping pics

[flashed]

Very nice ,I love tagging along on your adventures .

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by flashed

Very nice ,I love tagging along on your adventures .

X2!!!

Thanks again for posting up the great pics.

[dieseldawg142]

thanks guys!
if you want to see some STUNNING country, you need to check out Stein Valley, which we went by today with a slight stop...
actually headed up to Monkey Wrench, a great place north of Lytton to ride, just took the wifey's truck to check out some things for our holidays later this summer, been lots of wash-outs and damage to all our roads this winter with the retarded amount of snow AND rain we've had....
our back yard headin' out, north side of mt Cheam


Jamie Davis ( tv show Highway thru Hell) got a new dodge wrecker for cars, did'nt quite get the pic. Hope BC


no idea what this is- anyone? Yale BC


i know what this is! been sitting in that same spot for prob 7 or 8 yrs now...


waterfall right from the very top all the way down

[dieseldawg142]

dawg stop on the river...


heading up the Fraser canyon


noticed lots of netting on the highway after this winter

[dieseldawg142]

that's Nahatlatch valley on the other side of the river


and between those mountains is Hidden valley, pretty much only foot or bike/quad accessible. Hidden is squeezed in between Nahatlatch and Klowa mts. will be going there later this yr


dawg pit stop- but he cant get to the water....not good, temps are climbing in the canyon today

[flashed]

Great pics again ,thanks for the ride .

[Zoomad75]

Teaser shot. Desert trip 2017.

100_0926 by Bigassgas8.1L, on Flickr

Larry's rolling roadshow of trucks made another run to the desert last week. We've got a ton of photos and video to pour over but the trip report will be coming soon. I have to say this was probably the most fun I've had on 4 wheels for sure. Central/Southern Utah is an amazing place to see. It's even more fun to wheel. Day one off road had us on the wrong trail that we took anyway and it turned into the best off road trail I've done personally. Obstacle one after another. We made about 12 miles total off of I-70 and it took all day to do it. Stay tuned...

[MTCK]

That looks awesome, Rob. Looking forward to the trip report.

[dieseldawg142]

cool trip Zoomad!
looks like the blazer did fine
where is this? be liking it...

[dieseldawg142]

went to Skuzzy mountain today...
named for the only vessel to ever make it threw Hell's Gate in the Fraser canyon.
the Skuzzy was built specially for the canyon with a multiple compartitioned hull, one of the strongest engines available, and a huge winch on the front. The Skuzzy made it on the 3rd attempt with the engine going full out, the winch pulling, and 150 chinese railroad workers pulling on ropes from the cliffs. Every time the Skuzzy went out into the Fraser, they had to do hull repairs from the rocks and the pounding she took. There is not many pics of the Skuzzy as it was only in service for 2 yrs 'till the railroad was threw the canyon, then it was dis-mantled. the hull sat at Kanaka bar for yrs moldering away...


heading up-river for Hells Gate


little safer by road now

[dieseldawg142]

the Coquihalla has really become the main way into the BC interior the last couple yrs, with a major increase in people, so been going up the canyon lately, not nearly as crowded...
pretty quiet on this stellar day...


'till i hit this guy....and just because people can afford something, does'nt mean they know how to operate it...for half a hour this id**t in the coach could not seem to make it over 25 mph....grrr, where's the next passing lane...


actually went by my turn off and went a few more miles up the canyon to the Cisco bridges at Siska. was hoping for a rare shot of 2 trains on the bridges at the same time, but as ya can see....

[dieseldawg142]

Scuzzy creek FSR


wife does not like Scuzzy rd, carved into the side of the mountain with a drop from 1000-3000 ft down


road is pretty decent to this tower

[Zoomad75]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

cool trip Zoomad!
looks like the blazer did fine
where is this? be liking it...
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That was actually on the back way we took from Montrose Colorado to Moab. It's called Old 90 and really is nothing but 40 miles of dirt to within a few miles of the border to Utah. That's looking south to peaks near Durango and Cortez. This was a really neat road with multiple changes in elevation and eco-systems. Only problem was the cloud of dust leading off of Larry's truck didn't lend to good shots in some areas so I didn't break out the camera or phone.

We had talked about taking a different route if we had more time as there is a new off road trail system linking the two towns that opened last year. The Rimrocker trail from all reports I read really needs 2 days due to the terrain. We didn't have the time to spend on it so we cannonballed it on a more tame but faster route as we had another member of our group to meet in Moab for dinner.

[flashed]

Cool pics as always .

[snj8198]

Beautiful as always Dieseldawg. What's the elevation at the top of Scuzzy?

[blue 72 gmc 4x4]

First outing with our "new" cab over!

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by snj8198

Beautiful as always Dieseldawg. What's the elevation at the top of Scuzzy?

thanks SNJ!
Scuzzy is around 7300 feet

[MTCK]

That's gorgeous. Tell us about your truck and camper.

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by MTCK

That's gorgeous. Tell us about your truck and camper.

X2!
sweet ride!

[blue 72 gmc 4x4]

Thanks! It's nothing special. Just a 69' longhorn I picked up out of a scrapyard after it sat for 12 years. The camper is a Northwest coach, I'm guessing around 60-69? I just picked it up a few weeks ago. Going to use it and work on it as I go.

[dieseldawg142]

i like it, very period correct looking unit
my boss used to have a longhorn as a sheet metal truck. was fun to drive, would hop off the line with the factory No Spin. the front end sheet metal now resides on his hot rod '69 c10 shortie...

last feb (pg 23) went up the east side of Harrison lake. was just waiting for the snow to lift, then was going to do the Shovel Creek rd, a very rough, remote back way into Nahatlatch valley.
i think i also mentioned how we get a lot of yahoo's from the big city out here acting like morons, well they were at it again. we had mapped out and planned our Shovel Creek run all week just to watch it go down the tubes....or....up in flames....literally, when the yahoo's lit up over 300 acres of the mountain. even more stupid, the firefighters had to stop on the way to the fire to put out 3 un-attended fires when other yahoo's were evacuated from the area....so of course fire officals have closed off the area


the fire started around Bear creek and has spread towards Silver creek and up the mountain, these areas where i was last feb. wonder what it will look like when the fire is out...

[dieseldawg142]

so we decided to take the wifey's truck up the Coquihalla to Rickey lake, last time we were there was camping 3 yrs ago. we have been hit with a pretty intense heat wave last few days (for up here..) anywheres from the high 80's to right around 100, which has led to over 200 fires in the last week...and a campfire ban- bummer, holidays coming up in a couple weeks.
the Coke is ringed by some big fires right now, making it very smoky and smelly. we ran into a forest ranger and he said 125 fires started the day before, and be ready to leave the Rickey area just in case.
smokey.....and smelly


stopped at this nice little spot- for about 36 seconds, then the skeeters latched on to us...even dawg was like lets get outta here

[dieseldawg142]

off the highway

[dieseldawg142]

i have been letting my son drive off and on for a few yrs now. he will be a teen in 4 more months. free's up dad's time...



dont freak, the last 2 pics are just staged. that's my wife in the pass seat, and my beer is just an empty bottle i picked up out of the ditch....
he's actually quite a good driver, has been riding a quad since he was 4. had no problems with narrow bridge....

[MTCK]

Great pics Dawg. Shame about the fire. That bear isn't too far away! Blackies have killed two folks up here this summer already. Very abnormal.