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Quick morning excursion for some father-son time.
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911 is running again and had to pull the GX out of the garage for the first time in 4 months.
What a fleet! Did you do the front end conversion on the GX as well?
No, I'm actually considering selling the GX back to the dealership. They offered me 58-59 for my 23 GX with 4,881 miles.
I didn't want to go too crazy on the car and I felt like there were too many people running the scarlet tail lights so I wanted something different.
Just both parked together.
We made it to our first big road trip stop after 4 days on the road. After 909 miles, 881 miles, a short 354 mile day followed by a front brake job at the fantastic man cave/garage/workshop of @WreckDiver1321 then another 260 miles we made it to Glacier NP. It’s been good to be unhitched and sleeping in the same spot for a little bit. We’re on the east side now, headed to the west side Saturday for another few nights.
Over-engineered
Hi Buddy
We went and looked at Canada.
My cruiser (silver, on the right) made a new grocery getter friend today.
What is specifically in your mind?
The radiator.
Yesterday, we thought arriving at the parking lot at 630 am would be early enough for the Avalanche Falls hike… nope. No biggie. We drove up through Polebridge for some bear claws then explored the west side dirt roads all the way up to Canada, it was rainy and muddy.
No letting up for the rain today so we ditched the park and came into Kalispell for laundry, lunch, groceries and some other odds and ends.
We have a campsite until the 3rd. We gotta find something before hand, hopefully we won’t be scrambling due to 4th of July. We’re scoping our options over the next couple days, I’m sure something will shake out.
No letting up for the rain today so we ditched the park and came into Kalispell for laundry, lunch, groceries and some other odds and ends.
We have a campsite until the 3rd. We gotta find something before hand, hopefully we won’t be scrambling due to 4th of July. We’re scoping our options over the next couple days, I’m sure something will shake out.
I'd be pretty confident you can find something near Hungry Horse Reservoir regardless.
Where are you staying? Did you take the inside North Fork to Kintla? I think it is the prettiest lake in the park. Best campground also.
We are at fish creek until the 3rd. Booking at Kintla wasn’t open when we made our reservations forever ago and we figured we’d try to get something else if it opened up. We discovered getting sites in the park is tough, a lot of demand. They just closed many glacier area because of flooding so all those campers are now scrambling.
But yeah, we hit Kintla and Bowman, it was decent rain at both so we didn’t get to explore nearly as much as we wanted. Agree, very beautiful… cloudy rainy and wet, but beautiful.
Yup, that is quite a rain storm. I have spent many a day / night camping at Kintla in storms like that. I am surprised to see the lake so flat in that kind of a storm. I have seen three+ foot breakers and 50 MPH winds coming off the lake in rain like that. Back in March of 2002, my wife and I were stranded there for four days, alone, due to 18 inches of snow. The campground was to open on March 18 that year and we showed up on the 18th. Rain, then snow. The road in was blocked with over 200 downed trees per the road crew. When Lyle, the ranger, finally made it to the campground on the 23rd, he was rather surprised to see us there. Though a bit scary because of the bears, it was rather nice having the place to ourselves. Yes, we were prepared.
Also, Kintla is first come, first serve, no reservations.
When I first started to camp there back in the late 70s, it was mostly always empty. Then, in the mid/late 2000s, the park service had a big article published in several magazines on Kintla and it has not been the same since. Lyle, myself and the regulars (mostly dead now) were rather upset. Now, it is as if someone kicked an ant hill. Sad.
Wow, what a heck of a camp experience. We’re from Georgia so 18 inches of snow would likely have been a death sentence. I’m kidding but maybe only half kidding.
There were a few spots available when we were there, it’s one heck of a roll of the dice to pull our small camper all the way out there to see if we can get a spot. It seems like a lot of places are slowly moving to reservations which make it tough for people on the move. We just walked our campground and it’s completely reserved but only half full. Some others we’ve been through have a rule that if your not there your first night it becomes first come first serve, I don’t think the NPS sites are that way.
You’ve been camping longer than I have but even in my time I can 100% say that the internet has made those coveted secret sites all but gone. I often miss the days of adventure with a few paper maps, a tent and whatever I could fit in my car along with my buddy, or lady friend if I was lucky, and the hopeful optimism of “we’ll find something.” It’s a nice convenience to have all the data on multiple phone map apps and starlink to find spots and all but everyone has that and we’re all looking for those same spots.
Don't remember if I have asked before, but where in Georgia are you? General area good enough. I'm from Atlanta. Used to live on Oxford Rd., near Emory. Went to Druid Hills HS.
Now that I just turned 69, I am hearing a little voice in my head telling me it's time to go back home. My family was first in Georgia in 1763. Still got an older brother in Atlanta. I would like to get a place around Blue Ridge, Morganton, Mineral Bluff and such. I gotta stay in the mountains somehow. Atlanta is way too crowded. Traffic is beyond awful.