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Where Has Your 80 Taken You?: 80 Series Camping/Overland/Adventure Thread
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These three trips started around the end of March.
The first epic two weeks:
started off with a bit of wrenching in Calgary which is detailed somewhere on this ginormous forum. For all I know it was the first time my 1hd-t had a valve adjustment, and the injectors serviced. This would have been somewhere around 186 000 km. Did a bit of logging road driving around Nanaimo, and Cumberland. Picked up a roof top box for my snowboard gear, then it was off to Big White. 4 days of 20+ degree weather just in time for the end of season t-bar party.
Then I went tree planting, which was two months of inglorious logging roads and remote bush camps, basically running marathons every day. I'll spare you the horrors of those photographs.
I managed to wrangle a Dutch girl I met there along on the rest of my adventures. Truth be told they were half her idea anyway. I couldn't have been any luckier to have met this one.
Another Epic Two Weeks:
Started with our 4 day--turned into 5 day--birthdays bender. July 1st for Canada Day, July 2nd for mine, and July 4th for hers (we give a little nod to the States too, while we are at it).
Then Downhill mountain biking in Nelson, the lussier hot springs a quick reconnoiter of Jumbo for another upcoming trip, then back to Valhalla.
The Three Week Odyssey:
turned into just over four by the time it was all said and done. We ended up stringing three events back to back to back, and then I just tacked on a small delivery job at the end.
This was Arts Wells music festival, then out to Edge of the World Music Festival on Haida Gwaii, followed by another 4 or 5 days of camping, then back to the Kootenays for the real jumbo trip. After that I drove my favourite lady down to Seattle so she could get ready for Burning Man.
That's where my trips stopped. Well over 13000 kms. I had one of these most amazing spring/summers, unfortunately it is time to get a job again.
The first epic two weeks:
started off with a bit of wrenching in Calgary which is detailed somewhere on this ginormous forum. For all I know it was the first time my 1hd-t had a valve adjustment, and the injectors serviced. This would have been somewhere around 186 000 km. Did a bit of logging road driving around Nanaimo, and Cumberland. Picked up a roof top box for my snowboard gear, then it was off to Big White. 4 days of 20+ degree weather just in time for the end of season t-bar party.
Then I went tree planting, which was two months of inglorious logging roads and remote bush camps, basically running marathons every day. I'll spare you the horrors of those photographs.
I managed to wrangle a Dutch girl I met there along on the rest of my adventures. Truth be told they were half her idea anyway. I couldn't have been any luckier to have met this one.
Another Epic Two Weeks:
Then Downhill mountain biking in Nelson, the lussier hot springs a quick reconnoiter of Jumbo for another upcoming trip, then back to Valhalla.
The Three Week Odyssey:
turned into just over four by the time it was all said and done. We ended up stringing three events back to back to back, and then I just tacked on a small delivery job at the end.
This was Arts Wells music festival, then out to Edge of the World Music Festival on Haida Gwaii, followed by another 4 or 5 days of camping, then back to the Kootenays for the real jumbo trip. After that I drove my favourite lady down to Seattle so she could get ready for Burning Man.
That's where my trips stopped. Well over 13000 kms. I had one of these most amazing spring/summers, unfortunately it is time to get a job again.
Logging roads outside Nanaimo
New roof top box for the splitboard gear
T-bar party at the summit of big white
The my s***ty throw-it-together-made-out-of-scrap expedition trailer set up and some new swag for before tree planting.
Some fun making camp signs, The no camping sign appeared in the middle of our camp in the middle of the night, and caused a lot of people, especially the camp supervisor some panic and confusion. We thought it was just hilarious.
And finally all ready to go.
And finally all ready to go.
Our Planting camps near Prince George, BC. And more camping on a day off near Fort Saint James.
Lina admiring this impressive overlander in Banff.
The 'hills' above Nelson looking down on Kootenay Lake.
Cooking salmon burgers in grizzly country.
The 'hills' above Nelson looking down on Kootenay Lake.
Cooking salmon burgers in grizzly country.
Some Pictures from Haida Gwaii:
Pesuta Shipwreck at 5:30am
Rose spit: Roof Top tent is also a good platform for a victory photo. let's race the rising tide 30 kms to the end of the spit and back.
Consulting Adventure Map on the logging roads out toward Rennell Sound.
Camping next to the beach at dead tree grounds.
Pesuta Shipwreck at 5:30am
Rose spit: Roof Top tent is also a good platform for a victory photo. let's race the rising tide 30 kms to the end of the spit and back.
Consulting Adventure Map on the logging roads out toward Rennell Sound.
Camping next to the beach at dead tree grounds.
Our Camp site on the Horsethief Creek FSR
Hiking up to Lake of the Hanging Glacier, and swimming to an ice berg
Then Wheeling up to Farnham glacier and making a few turns in august.
Hiking up to Lake of the Hanging Glacier, and swimming to an ice berg
Then Wheeling up to Farnham glacier and making a few turns in august.
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drove out to Vernal, UT for son's mtn bike race. "Camping" with a group in a developed area every once in a while reminds me why we try to stay off the beaten path a bit. FYI: running your noisyass generator after dark when your rv is surrounded by other campers is bad form. Don't be surprised if the neighbors retaliate by jamming fiddle music into the night 
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While we were out that way, spent a day/night checking out Dinosaur National Monument...
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The plan was to camp at one of the over a dozen campsites at one of the three campgrounds along the Tallulah River about 20 miles northwest of Clayton, GA. However, when my friends and I got there late Friday night (yes, I know) and all three campgrounds were full, we had to come up with a plan B. Plan B was to drive back into Clayton to get a cell signal, and call our friend who was driving up from St. Petersburg, FL with his friend (a newbie to the whole off-road driving thing) and let them know that we were going to try for a campsite on Sarah's Creek, about 10 miles east of Clayton. If we didn't call back, they were to look for us there Saturday morning. Long story short, we found a couple of sites and got set up and finally went to bed right after 2:00 a.m.
I forgot to get any photos of the actual campsite, but here are a few from our wanders this weekend:
I forgot to get any photos of the actual campsite, but here are a few from our wanders this weekend:
Southwest Circuit in Bolvia
Torres del Paine
Carretera Austral
Torres del Paine
Carretera Austral
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dubyahard
SILVER Star
Tooled around Mt. Hood this past weekend.
Camped near Bonney Butte. Not a soul around except for a roving band of coyotes (I think).
Camped near Bonney Butte. Not a soul around except for a roving band of coyotes (I think).
Sweet shot of the rig and the mountain!
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Offroad camping/backpacking with some of my Students, Southern Utah. Super fun trip. Big Thanks to Kelbelicious for volunteering!
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