Camping This & That’s

BOB357 · Jul 17, 2019

This is about the limit of my outdoor adventures any more. Used to love camping, but these old bones don't like the cool mornings and hard ground .
Dusted off my Fishmobile and took a ride out to my favorite pond. Didn't even get a bite, but cleaned out and reorganized my tackle box. Started getting warm, so headed back to the casa. Made it a 4 mile round trip. Felt good to get some exercise. Will do it again tomorrow and see what a couple extra miles feels like.

ChicoBrewer · Jul 17, 2019

BOB357 said:
This is about the limit of my outdoor adventures any more. Used to love camping, but these old bones don't like the cool mornings and hard ground .
Dusted off my Fishmobile and took a ride out to my favorite pond. Didn't even get a bite, but cleaned out and reorganized my tackle box. Started getting warm, so headed back to the casa. Made it a 4 mile round trip. Felt good to get some exercise. Will do it again tomorrow and see what a couple extra miles feels like. View attachment 6673 View attachment 6674

Desert oasis. Does that water come from the truckee or the Carson or something else? When I was in Reno on the fourth there was still a lot of water coming down from lake Tahoe and quite a bit of snow in the higher Sierra. They were skiing Squaw on the fourth of July in shorts.

Group W · Jul 17, 2019

BOB357 said:
This is about the limit of my outdoor adventures any more. Used to love camping, but these old bones don't like the cool mornings and hard ground .
Dusted off my Fishmobile and took a ride out to my favorite pond. Didn't even get a bite, but cleaned out and reorganized my tackle box. Started getting warm, so headed back to the casa. Made it a 4 mile round trip. Felt good to get some exercise. Will do it again tomorrow and see what a couple extra miles feels like. View attachment 6673 View attachment 6674

Nice trolling setup on the back of that Schwinn. You must be using side planers.

GFHomebrew · Jul 17, 2019

That's a nice setup bob.

BOB357 · Jul 17, 2019

ChicoBrewer said:
Desert oasis. Does that water come from the truckee or the Carson or something else? When I was in Reno on the fourth there was still a lot of water coming down from lake Tahoe and quite a bit of snow in the higher Sierra. They were skiing Squaw on the fourth of July in shorts.

The Carson, via our irrigation canal system that splits off just below Lahontan Dam. They used to divert water from the Truckee into the system too, but haven't for several years. Lahontan is about to capacity and they're running water out to all of the wetlands North and East of us. Great water year, as was last year.

BOB357 · Jul 17, 2019

Group W said:
Nice trolling setup on the back of that Schwinn. You must be using side planers.

No side planers. Troll for road kill on the way home.

BOB357 · Jul 17, 2019

Trialben said:
That's a nice setup bob.

Fishing along the way makes the exercise bearable

Put the bike together when I retired 5+ years ago. It hasn't got much use in the last 2 years, but I really need to start riding regularly to work off some of the old beer gut.

GFHomebrew · Jul 18, 2019

BOB357 said:
Fishing along the way makes the exercise bearable Put the bike together when I retired 5+ years ago. It hasn't got much use in the last 2 years, but I really need to start riding regularly to work off some of the old beer gut.

Hey and fishing beer and riding go hand in hand depending on how many you have.

BOB357 · Jul 18, 2019

Exercise is more appealing to me than cutting down on my beer consumption. These rides would be much earlier in the day than I start drinking. Ah, unless it's a really bad morning ")

GFHomebrew · Jul 18, 2019

BOB357 said:
Exercise is more appealing to me than cutting down on my beer consumption. These rides would be much earlier in the day than I start drinking. Ah, unless it's a really bad morning ")

A six pack and a bike ride can be a memorable expierence. As I was typing that I made sure I put bike before ride just to stop any confusion both are memorable expierences lol

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Vallka · Jul 19, 2019

This is how I keep the beer flowing, hit the mountains, ride up for hours and love the descents!

This has been our setup for the past two weeks, back to real live I'm a few days, but that's ok cause my kegs are calling (and I have two batches fermenting).

Camping shirt

thunderwagn · Jul 19, 2019

Vallka said:
This is how I keep the beer flowing, hit the mountains, ride up for hours and love the descents!
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This has been our setup for the past two weeks, back to real live I'm a few days, but that's ok cause my kegs are calling (and I have two batches fermenting).
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Beaut of a bike man. I finally had to give up the trails and full suspension after my last knee rebuild a few years back. I do a little hard pack trails here and there on my hard tail Specialized hybrid unit, but not much.

Vallka · Jul 19, 2019

thunderwagn said:
Beaut of a bike man. I finally had to give up the trails and full suspension after my last knee rebuild a few years back. I do a little hard pack trails here and there on my hard tail Specialized hybrid unit, but not much.

Ya it is a fun bike, it has electronic suspension, so it is always ajusting as I ride. When I climb it is locked out but when the front fork registers a big enough bump it soften up the rear to absorb then back to lock out. I could be going 60km. 40mph and it will change before the back wheel hits!

GFHomebrew · Jul 19, 2019

Vallka said:
Ya it is a fun bike, it has electronic suspension, so it is always ajusting as I ride. When I climb it is locked out but when the front fork registers a big enough bump it soften up the rear to absorb then back to lock out. I could be going 60km. 40mph and it will change before the back wheel hits!

Wowie that is some bike there Valka gotta counter the beers some way looks like a great past-time enjoy it while your there!

Vallka · Jul 20, 2019

Trialben said:
Wowie that is some bike there Valka gotta counter the beers some way looks like a great past-time enjoy it while your there!

It is great camping but I ride pretty much every day 9 months a year

Head First · Jul 20, 2019

Looks really homey there. It must be tough to break a camp like that to leave for those kegs!

Craigerrr · Sep 2, 2019

Last trip of the season, and the longest, one week at Mikisew Provincial Park, 3 hours north of Toronto. It is pretty NORTH, but still considered to be the Near North. Progressively panned out screen shots to give you perspective of where on earth we are.