post up your camping pics

[notchbackgta]

dieseldawg142, Your pictures make me homesick for a place I have never been. The mountains call to me, I just need to leave my current life with security and move to a place where I believe I will actually be happy every day.
Thank you for all the great pictures, please keep it up

[snj8198]

Absolutely awesome views! Thanks for all the pics. Makes me jealous. Now that I think about it, why do you tease us like this? I don't have to put up with this.

[dieseldawg142]

thanks SNJ
sorry, i'll try not to tease....



whoops...how did those get in there....

[dieseldawg142]

welp, been putting some big miles on the stepper this week.
went up to my dad's place in Falkland, 'bout 250 miles each way, a 3 to 3 1/2 drive by hiway....but i hate the highway- too boring. i take a shortcut threw Douglas lake ranch, 'bout 40 miles shorter each way, but takes longer- around 5 hrs. not because it's a knarly rd, but because it has MAJOR washboard 90% of the way. even with IFS i was 1st or 2nd gear all the way, any faster and the truck would start skittering sideways. desolate place, dont really want to break down there...
went to help my dad work on his retirement home, mite need this to move material (heh heh...)


just as i was leaving, a storm rolled in. got a one in a million shot, a flash of lightning, threw the truck window, as i'm driving...ta-daaa


cows hanging out...


'bout a 40 min drive out of Merritt out in the middle of nowhere is this big hydro station

[dieseldawg142]

all the douglas lake ranch buildings are at the beginning


few miles down the road is this abandoned place...and yeah, thats a '71 chevy cab sitting there...


then ya start to get out into nothingness...for miles lol

[dieseldawg142]

there's cows and horses wandering around. came across these pony's in my travels

[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.

[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

[dieseldawg142]

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)

[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...

[dieseldawg142]

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

[dieseldawg142]

Rainbow falls, 'bout 60-70 foot drop



old dawg still enjoying goin' out...

[flashed]

Beautiful up there .

[dieseldawg142]

thanks Flashed, not very busy there either....
last time i was up there was last nov when the snow started


guess i was the last person up there, the nov 23 entry is mine, looks like no one else made it up 'till just a couple weeks ago....


also passed this beauty '55 sitting on 35's at Lake of the Woods on the way home