Thought I'd share some pics I took over the last two weeks

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woops

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Happy snake

fantastic pics mah nigga

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>>1072474
Thanks dood

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They are always watching

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You are never safe

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Canadians testing out nuclear bombs

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Last camping spot. Was weird since it was relatively easy to access, not too far from Bend, and right on the water. In the middle of the night my girlfriend wakes up and there are silver dollar sized spiders everywhere in the tent, ~10 of them visible. Did our best to clean them out, as we drove home they were still crawling out of random nooks and crannies. Not sure if locals no this about the spot, wasn't too fun though, my girlfriend got bit a few times, I didn't fortunately.

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If you're travelling around these areas I highly recommend the forests around Happy Camp CA, Illinois River north of Selma OR, Wenatchee National Forest NE of Cle Elum WA, and the Okanogan NF/North Cascades NP North of Winthrop WA. The more central areas of WA and OR are beautiful obviously but just have too easy access to Seattle and Portland to reliably get away from people in this season.

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>>1072468

i like these pics quite a bit. which routes did you take? i'm hoping on taking on the WABDR later in the summer but we'll see.

>>1072573
Dude that truck/cap combo is 10/10. I love the idea of a pickup camper without the gigantic weighty box slowing it down.

>>1072463

Woah I've heard of those tube animals

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>>1072471
>>1072472
WwoowW

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>>1072587
Hadn't heard of the WABDR but looking at it I did about the lower 1/3 of it around Mt Adams, camped at this spot just East of the route -
>>1072571
The rest of the way through WA I was West of that route towards the middle of the Cascades, roughly around where the PCT route is. Are you on a moto or in a truck? If you're on a moto there's good trails off that route around Council Lake, and you can poach some of the PCT in the off season. I never set out to do an exact route, we stop at ranger stations and get Vehicle Use Maps which show all forest roads/trails, then pick areas that look interesting due to water, geography, lots of elevation gain, or just near something cool. Traveled about 3200 miles on this trip.

>>1072614
Yeah can't beat it, it's called a Flippac. It has some downsides, the torsion bar it uses can break and the way the fiberglass is bedded around bare steel causes really hard to fix issues. The company that made them went out of business, but still holds the patents so there's really no other good options. Adventure Trailers is making something called the Habitat but it's $10k the way I would spec it, flips backwards which sucks, and doesn't open the easy way the Flippac does with the torsion bar. I'm selling this truck but going to hang on to the Flippac, unsure if I'm going to get another 6' bed truck and using it or going another route like a JK Habitat Jeep.

>>1072647
Ever heard of an Oregonian Spring Snake? They are only a foot long but can strike over 30 feet, shooting out like a coil spring from a Harbor Freight spring compressor.

>>1072654
Crater Lake is cool but no offroad access or non-pleb backcountry around it unfortunately, just drove through to snap the pics.

Pretty fucking sweet and your setup looks awesome, how do you afford all this?

>>1072454
How'd this happen ?
>>1072614
I second this notion.

Sounds like a long drive OP, did the car need any fixes ? Anyway just posting to say thanks for posting these photos. Looks a beautiful place.

>>1072842
>how do you afford all this?
It's called a job. Stop being a NEET neckbeard.

>>1072842
I'm a mechanic. The truck was 12k years ago and the Flippac I got for $2400, not really much money

>>1072857
>How'd this happen ?
The car is 2wd with no locker so functionally 1 wheel drive, it looked like hard pack but as soon as the tire spun a bit it dug in through the kitty litter right down to the bumper

>did the car need any fixes?
Nothing disabling the car, but the catalyst broke loose in the cat, one of the serpentine tensioners or pulleys is squealing, the leaf pack needs to be pulled apart and greased, there's a noise from a body seam behind the dash, it's just beat and since I'm a mechanic I will never fix it unless something prevents the car from driving. I need something with 4wd regardless so just going to put some bandaids on the truck and sell it.

>>1072885
>NEET
You're not wrong, my friendo. Almost 3 years now.
>neckbeard
Not even close.

>>1073053
fair enough

>>1072430
please share what tent/truck camper that is. whatever its called, it'd be perfect for my gf and i in montana

>>1074095
nvm you already said it
thanks for sharing! these are great photos

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>>1074097
Get one if you can, well worth it. Best plate to look is ExpeditionPortal classifieds

Just to give some insight into how we do these trips mostly on dirt/find these spots, obviously the internet is no use and even Garmins off road maps don't have a lot of logging roads/forest roads, these Vehicle Use Maps are what we rely on most of the trip. Each ranger district in National Forests, or BLM/National Monument offices normally have one for their district. We call ahead and ask them to leave one outside if we're going through on the weekend/afterhours. There's no guarantee the roads are negotiable though, you'll regularly find roads that haven't been driven in years for better or for worse. If you're looking to never stay in a campground these maps are a good place to start.

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>>1075043
This is what a map looks like. You can camp anywhere along roads with dotted lines. Unfortunately these maps don't always show landmarks, rivers/streams, elevation, etc. so you need another physical map to cross reference. I always aim for roads with lots of elevation change and/or near water as they tend to be the most interesting.

Great photography anon, those are some wallpaper-tier pictures. Also your truck looks comfy as fuck.

>>1072445
What are these?

>>1075045
What does square stuff mean?

>>1075470
They look like they're closely related to pitcher plants.

>>1072436
Bruh we rig twins.

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But mines the 3.4 4x4

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>>1075485
I think those are plots of ranch/private land within the NF

>>1075669
Wow what are the chances. Your Flippac looks in much better shape than mine, mines been through hell and back, still on the original torsion bar and no issues with rust in the fiberglass channel yet though. Eventually I'm going to pull the whole thing apart and have someone make me a new tent for it, probably while it's off while I get a new truck.

>>1076073
>>1075669
noice

>>1075043
that's a lot of maps.