2022 Camping season...preps...thoughts?

Thanks for posting all of the great pics guys. @Irishthreeper you really get around to some beautiful places. I hope I'm as fortunate someday to do the same. @Gr8bawana great pics also, I enjoyed yours also.

For GsRAM… Our trips out west have been a blessing. We are 71 and 70 and I’ll just say stay healthy, retire as soon as possible and don’t put off traveling the country. No country on the planet has the beauty and awesome terrain as we have here.

Irishthreeper said:

For GsRAM… Our trips out west have been a blessing. We are 71 and 70 and I’ll just say stay healthy, retire as soon as possible and don’t put off traveling the country. No country on the planet has the beauty and awesome terrain as we have here.

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Thanks sir. I appreciate your thoughts and agree ...the older I get the more and more I'd like to retire as soon as I can financially

The fun continues. Just got back from All Chrysler Nationals and getting ready for camping next weekend as well. The fun part is they are paving my street this week so I had to get the trailer out today. Thankfully the campground moved someone due in for an overnight stop over stay tonight to allow us in the spot we had reserved for this weekend and is only charging us plug in storage fee for these three days. ($8 a day) . This way we don't have to move later in the week. That's why we keep going back. They are great people. They bend over backwards to help accommodate everyone. The campground is Old Cedar Campground in Monroeville NJ. I had to mention their name. They deserve the promo.

That's the good news. Bad news is today I found a nail in my truck tire. So I went to my tire guy and got it patched. Then I took the trailer to the campground to drop it off and I picked up a screw in the trailer tire. Thankfully I picked it up in the campground and not on the road. So I have to go back tomorrow, take the tire off, and take it to my tire guy. He looked at the pic I sent him and he thinks he can patch it. If not he has plenty of this size tire in stock. This is how my week starts.

Now, you know the camping gods aren’t going to make it easy on you! After leaving a heavily graveled campground about a week ago I was losing air in one of my 5W tires. Kept inflating it and made it to a Kansas City Discount Tire store where they found a stone buried in the side of the tread…weird. Anyway, bought road hazard with the Endurance’s back in May and they put a new tire on it, no questions asked. I couldn’t be more impressed than I have been with that company, both if FL and now MO.

Lots of shade to keep the summer heat down.


These things may pack some heat...



Might be a rough night....

Had to reinforce the pull strap on the bed pull out and air up the tires, left and spare were ok but the right had lost about 25 psi since last fall. Other than that we just had to pack everything in and we were good to go for the weekend. Was also very pleased with 18 mpg.

Had to replace the Control Board in a Dometic DM-2652 fridge in my Wolf Pup. The OEM board was back ordered (naturally...). I took a chance on a Dinosaur replacement (US made....who knew?) and it was an exact match and works great. Next trip out is a girls weekend where I get the pleasure of towing, setting up and tearing down but not actually staying.

Changed out the Grey and Black water valves on the trailer on Saturday.

My trailer is a 2007 and they were both not sliding open very well.

Last camping trip my **** tube ripped in half taking it out of the storage bin but I managed to rig up a 5 foot tube that barely reached to drain the tanks.

Between this and slowly trying to wiggle the valves open without ripping the handles off I decided it was time to get all new stuff.

Kind of a gross job but they work great now.

Does my camper make my truck look big?

Hahaha

8th night in the forest. Can only stay 7 days at a site so today we moved from the valley to the Mountain top.

Got spotty service now.

You can see the sun set...sorta.

We have not seen another human for 3 days. The only passerby on top this ridge has been the clouds

Went to waterton lakes park on the weekend first trip to test the topper lift it works great

I posted in a different thread but here’s some pictures of a momma grizzly and two cubs

We extended our stay for a day. I wasn't ready to pack up and I don't have to work until tomorrow night. This is our usual campground but on the other side, more woods. I don't know why we never tried this side before but we really like it. Nice and shaded especially when the temps this weekend are bordering on 100°.

Oregon road trip.
NF25 from Randle to NF99 is quite bad, everything south is good. Mt. St. Helens from the Windy ridge viewpoint.
US101 south of Yachats
Winchester Bay. Umpqua campground. Not bad for showing up on a Saturday without reservations.

Just got home from grande cache Alberta we went to rock lake and the very end of beaver dam road 34 Km back in to the bush

Saw momma and Alf beside the hwy having dinner

Prospect Oregon. Woodruff staging area campground.

Rogue River.

A pic of the Rouge River yesterday.