Thread: Camping

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Great stuff, Carl. It makes me happy to see your brought your shaving gear along. I was hoping someone would share some camp-shaving in this thread.

Yeah, straight shaving while camping is a must, just because...

Just took a camping trip at Blue Rocks camp ground with my kids.
Here's some pics...

Upper Vista camp above Wynoochee Lake, WA. We can't get up there anymore. The fire road has become so over grown it is not passable now.

[edit1 to add 3,200 ft above the lake]

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Went canoeing with a friend yesterday. Our campout turned into a day trip because the river was almost up to the campsite.


Upriver


Water about to reach canoe again


Looking out from under the willow trees

Originally Posted by Trimmy72

Just took a camping trip at Blue Rocks camp ground with my kids.
Here's some pics...

Trimmy,


I grew up outside of Columbus Ohio. We spent a lot of time there as kids. My parents still go all the time. I live in California now so I only get to go with thin every couple years. If you ever have some free time you should go check out the bucket from the " Big Musky". It was the bucket from the biggest land drag ever built. I was fortunate enough to see it when it was still a machine but the bucket is pretty impressive as well. Happy camping.

I was camping at a primitive campsite in a state park the last couple of days. The campsite is isolated, a four mile hike in or one mile boat ride, plus a .25 mile hike.

Canoe afte unloading


Fire pit: someone left a gentlemanly gift.
Okay, corny joke. The whiskey is a Jack Danilels product called Gentleman Jack and it was sitting at the campsite when we arrived.


my tent

Monday's lunch: Thuringer-style sausage and smoked cheese


Preparing a coal bed to grill the steaks

Now that looks like fun,,,, we are going to make a small trip out into the Everglades in November,,,, a little too hot right now for fun.

Honestly, it was a little too hot here (not Florida hot, though). I think it hit 92F yesterday and it was fairly humid. We fished yesterday evening and then swam off the floating docks before heading back to camp and cook dinner.

Ill try to get and post pics of the steaks. My buddy took those pics. We both e had two one pound steaks apiece.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

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That looks like a MASSIVE canoe! What is it with you guys? Massive cities, massive buildings, massive pickup trucks, massive canoes...

That's a nice looking spot, looks a lot like Deep Creek :-)

Hopefully I'm off to The Grampians in a few weeks time to camp and climb. It'll be my first time there. Looking back on this thread reminds me of how much I miss camping!

I wonder what the guy (climbing buddy) I'm going with will think when I pull out my straight razor, shaving cream and strop to shave, followed by a nice cup of freshly brewed coffee made in my little mocca pot drank from a china tea cup before setting in to write a letter with me dip pen? 'pparantly he doesn't even bathe when camping.... Heathen!