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RE: Pahaska Tepee, Wyoming
TexasShadow knows better than I. Just looked and Rex Hale does have electric, as does Wapiti and maybe others. These are in the Shoshone National Forest, and reservations are possible with some of them.
Rex Hale
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newk
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11/24/09 07:40pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Pahaska Tepee, Wyoming
There are a number of nice shady Forest Service campgrounds along that stretch of road east of Pahaska. They don't have hookups, but if you've got a couple good batteries in your camper, you should be able to get by for 3-4 days without hookups. You're not likely to need air conditioning. I've stayed at a couple of them, but it's been a few years and I don't remember their names.
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newk
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11/24/09 07:08pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Any info on a 1975 Saturn truck camper?
The refrigerator was probably removed because it developed an ammonia leak. That happened with my last pickup camper, a 1980 10-footer that I sold about 10 years ago.
When they get that old, it's simply condition rather than age that determines the value. I kept mine inside most of the time, so it was in great shape, and I'd just put in a new 3-way refrigerator the summer before I sold it. The water heater was a couple years old, and I'd overhauled the crank out window mechanisms. (They often get hard to crank and strip gears.) I got $1500 for mine -- about twice what the new refrigerator cost me.
Lots of small outfits built small campers in that era. I don't even remember the brand on mine. Most of them were about the same; there were only a couple kinds of windows, furnaces, refrigerators, stoves, roof vents, etc. that were available.
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newk
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11/21/09 10:38pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: running furnace while traveling
I did it once in an old pickup camper -- driving the AlCan in late December. By leaving the furnace on, we were able to warm it up to about 30 degrees before morning. :S We spent the next night in a motel room.
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newk
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11/16/09 10:12pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Pass through doors
08 33 Sk Kingston, sometimes when the wind blows the door will unlatch and falls, that could hurt someone. Has anyone changed the latching system to prevent this?
It's designed that way. Head boo-boos are the sign that you've been camping. If I don't have at least one bandage on my noggin on Monday morning, nobody believes me when I say I went camping over the weekend.
Thankfully, I usually have two or three bandages -- pass-through doors, hitch, interior cabinet doors, and maybe the bottom of a slide-out.
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newk
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11/16/09 08:52pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Best routes from N. Arkansas to NW Montana via S. Dakota?
I've never been on US-2, but there's nothing I can think of on I-90 to be concerned about -- no steep passes and not much traffic. It takes you across northern Wyoming, skirts the Black Hills, and is a direct route across the center of South Dakota.
I assume you'll be visiting Glacier before Yellowstone and Teton Nat'l Parks. I'd probably suggest you exit Yellowstone through the east gate, stop and visit the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, then continue on Hwy 20 east through Greybull. You'll then get to see the Bighorn Mountains, either via Hwy 14 or Hwy 16. Either way is a good route and should be no problem for your rig. I'd plan to spend at least a couple days in the Bighorns -- lots of nice FS campgrounds (no hookups).
You'll probably want to plan a week or so around the Black Hills including Devils Tower in NE Wyoming. IMHO, Custer State Park is the jewel of the Black Hills.
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newk
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11/13/09 10:48pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: Background checks...... Fingerprints?
The Tree Huggers and Liberial jerks
I'm guessing you're not a big volunteer person anyhow. If you do volunteer that makes you liberal by most conservatives definition.
Huh????????????????
Since when? And where did you find this fact?
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newk
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11/01/09 09:57pm |
Workamping Forum
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RE: Why shouldn't I?
The discounts are small enough that you need other motivation than the discount alone to justify the purchase of the item - is certainly true for car alarms. The portion of your insurance that amortizes theft rates is small compared to the cost of an alarm....
Not always. I'm a photographer and carry tens of $1000 worth of equipment with me while on jobs. Some equipment insurers INSIST on car alarms or it's not insured against theft.
(For the record, I think it's bunk, but I don't make the rules. I do select the insurance carrier, however.) ;)
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newk
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10/12/09 06:15pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Why shouldn't I?
... Also if a bearing was going bad tire would be warmer and help you catch that also if the system you ran monitored temperature.
Excellent point that hadn't occurred to me. I had a bearing go bad on my camper 3-4 years ago. Thinking back on it, it had been going bad the night before but I was driving through Denver and blamed the smoke on water. (It had rained a little earlier.) So I drove through Denver and Colorado Springs at 65 mph or more with a wheel that was ready to fly off and kill someone in the oncoming lanes. I discovered it the next morning near Pueblo, and as soon as I tried to back it up, the wheel popped off.
That was a Saturday morning, and we couldn't find anyone who could fix it before the next Monday, so we ended up buying a whole new camper and continued on to Tucson.:E Before we got back to Pueblo we blew a tire on the new camper.:S
I don't have a tire monitoring system, but it's on my want list.
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newk
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10/12/09 05:51pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: WEATHER IS COLD!!!!
We got hit hard a week ago in NE Wyoming -- 6 to 8 inches of wet, heavy "cloud poop" broke big limbs off of most of our trees. Our street looks like a tornado must have hit, with all the broken limbs piled up near it. And it's only gotten colder with more snow in the last week. At least with the colder weather, the snow doesn't pile up on the trees and break off more limbs.
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newk
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10/12/09 05:21pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Crazy Woman Canyon
I used to frequent that canyon regularly. It was one of the first places in the Bighorns that I took my wife (then gf), and let the brakes overheat, causing a total loss of the brakes. She's scared to death of roads like that, and that caused me to use the brakes too much. I had a slide-in camper and didn't even think of the brakes overheating. Luckily it was at the bottom and I was able to get stopped at a slight incline off the road. If I'd have been using the low gear range, like I should have done, I'd have had no problem.
The last time I attempted going down the same road we turned around in the final couple hundred yards. She couldn't take it anymore. Or I couldn't take "it" anymore. :W
Oh yeah, we made the turn around just after driving past a large 5th wheel. YIKES! I don't know how that happened or what they did with it, but it's NO ROAD FOR A 5ER!
It is a beautiful canyon, best visited with a 4x4. And without a gunshy passenger.:R
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newk
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09/12/09 09:56pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Rapid city weather
Ops, forgot about the 3' of snow in 37 hours in May of 1984. Did not last long though.
Ahhhhhhh, but you mean April of '84 (Apr 25-27). I missed it! :B I flew out just ahead of it in my plane for its annual inspection just outside of Wichita, KS. My wife called to ask me if they should close down our store for the storm. I scoffed at the idea but told her to use her judgement. Then I turned on the radio and heard about the giant storm in Wyoming.
My wife almost got home but had to walk the final block. The car didn't get dug out for three days. A week later the snow was all gone.
Blizzard of '84
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newk
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09/12/09 09:20pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: Rapid city weather
That had to be some pretty wet snow. I live just west of the Black Hills, and it's been hot, hot, hot. Cooling off finally. High of 69 today and forecasting 65 tomorrow, then back into the 80s.
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newk
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09/11/09 10:52pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: Top 10 Places Not To Miss
I like most of what I'm seeing here. A couple I might add would be northern Minnesota -- the nw shoreline of Lake Superior. Some of the areas along the Mississippi in eastern Iowa are worth a visit, although to rate either in the top 10 might be stretching it. Also, I've been over the Beartooth Highway with a Class C and didn't have any problems at all. I took my time and stopped often for pictures, but it was a very pleasant (and beautiful) drive.
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newk
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09/05/09 09:31pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: NY to Yellowstone
Three weeks gives you a total of 23 days, counting the weekends at the beginning and end. IMO, 4 days each way out and back is going to be very difficult, as it's at least 2,200 miles each way. If you plan for 5 days in each direction you will still have 13 days for sightseeing, which will give you a good feel for the area. I wouldn't add Glacier to this trip, as you already have enough on your plate for the time available.
What he said.
I'd cut a day from Yellowstone and one from the Tetons/Jackson and add them to your Black Hills stay.
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newk
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09/05/09 09:08pm |
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RE: Best roads to travel
I'd take I-90 to Buffalo WY, then I-25 south to avoid mountains.
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newk
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09/05/09 09:03pm |
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RE: Want a 5er, but clueless on TV. . .HELP!!
You want a bunkhouse, so you must have kid(s). Go for the 1-ton dually at a minimum. It won't *pull* any better than a 3/4-ton, but it'll stop faster and be more stable. I'd go with the crew cab and long box. If you're buying new, I think any of the trucks -- Chevy/GMC, Ford or Dodge would be fine. (Personally, I'd go with a Chevy/GMC as first choice, Ford as close second choice.)
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newk
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08/29/09 02:29pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Bad Experience
Maybe it had been raining a lot more than normal.
That was exactly the problem. I live 60 miles from there, and my wife and I enjoy the camping experience at Devils Tower 2-3 times each year. We usually stay at the KOA one of those times, and we've never had a bad experience.
Anyway, back to the problem: Rain. Record rainfall. My neighbor was telling me about it earlier this week. I forget how much rain they had, but I think it was more in one rain storm than what usually falls during July and August combined.
We just returned this afternoon from a little camping trip to Devils Tower. We prefer the campground inside the Monument, as we enjoy campfires and don't need hookups. Unfortunately there's also a fire ban for the whole county, so we couldn't even light our charcoals. Luckily we had a small gas grill along so we were able to burn our hotdogs to perfection, but it's just not the same when you can't sit around a big ol' wood fire.
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newk
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08/28/09 08:42pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: upgrading soon
If you really don't want a slide and don't mind aluminum siding, I'd suggest you look at older used models. A new 5er without a slideout isn't going to be worth much at trade-in time, so just get an old one now and you won't need/expect much when you trade it.
We only have a tiny slideout in ours, but even it makes the camper seem much roomier when it's out.
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newk
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08/18/09 11:59am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Wyoming route??
... That's also why we're avoiding Sturgis until the rally is over, don't want anything to happen to our kids, nor do we need our kids seeing naked/drunk people riding motorcycles.
:E There's probably no other place you could go that has as much law enforcement as Sturgis during the rally. No need to worry. And in case you weren't aware of it, many, if not most, of those "bikers" are professionals who take a week or two to pretend they're tough guys. ;)
I remember running into our funeral director and his wife at the gas pumps several years ago during bike week. I knew him and his wife well. We attended the same church and were both members of the local Rotary Club. But I knew them both as people who dressed to the "T" -- him in his dark suits and her in business suits or gowns. Not that day, however. Both were wearing their "biker threads" and looked like they must surely have been members of Hells Angels. I'd not have recognized them if they hadn't spoken first.
As for the nakedness, you could find some of that in the campgrounds, but on the road or even in downtown Sturgis, you won't see anything that you wouldn't see on any public beach. I wouldn't worry about avoiding Sturgis other than if you need a camping spot and don't already have it reserved.
At any rate, you said you were leaving this week (Aug. 9-15). Bike week is over. Done. Kaput.
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newk
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08/10/09 01:25pm |
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