TheSamba.com :: View topic - Taking your split bus off the beaten path...

Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:26 am

I figured the bay window folks have their wonderful forum topic titled "Let's see some bus and wilderness pics", but the splitty folks do not. Why not?! So lets see some pics of you taking your split buses off the beaten path! Splits in the woods, mountains, desert, plains, at the river, etc. It would be nice to consolidate the stories, videos, and pics so that we all can enjoy each others adventures. I'll start:

Ozark National Forest in Arkansas:

Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:37 am

Here is Gene, Richard, and I in Death Valley:

Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:42 am

Greg Mogle and his double cab in the Cibola NF, New Mexico:

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:05 am

Right on...my kind of thread!

Shasta:

A short dirt road in the Big Basin area (need to find one that'll take me all the way to the coast!):

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:10 am

Right on, Taylor!
Here are more shasta pics...
Literally off the beaten path: bullet bus gone over! Damn that was scary to watch!!

Damon's panel:

JB's got it down:

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:15 am

Nice! I need to dig up some old photos and scan them in from years back...this is the only one I have digitally - it's from a friend's farm out in the middle of nowhere...(notice how I keep a clear distance from the vanagons)
:)

Can't wait to get my incoming 15s cleaned up & get some better tires on there...

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:31 am

A few shots of my past busses and current bus. . . cool thread ideas kevin.

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:36 am

That truck is hard as nails!

Oh, and you shasta guys are mental 8)

Will try and dig out and scan the pics of the gulf bus spewing mud around a campsite trying to leave a festival last year, damn that was funny. Haven't been on any proper off road quests yet tho.....

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:36 am

Truckersmike took this awesome pic of my truck:

'56 westy last month in a local national forest:

from the clear cut, parked in the same spot as the above pic:

in a few year the clear cut will look more like this, with tall grass:

although that clear cut looked like this in Nov 2006:

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:42 am

Clara wrote:

Holy shite thats a steep road! :)

Clear cuts make me sad. Poor forest management. Here is my old kombi at a couple of clear cuts:
In Oregon:

In Missouri:

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:44 am

KrisBalfe wrote: A few shots of my past busses and current bus. . . cool thread ideas kevin.

Thanks Kris. It needed to be done!

That pic was on my desktop for a long time. Didn't know it was your old bus 'till now. Badass! Your an old school backroadbuser, eh?

Great pictures everyone! Now I can stop scanning the gallery for pics and just use this thread for a supply desktop background images :).

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:44 am

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:49 am

My bus having some fun behind slammedcamper57's house:

And JB's $100 Bill at the same spot:

Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:52 am

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Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:08 am

Great Thread!

Here's some pics of a surf trip to Baja with my '65 deluxe. These were taken in 1995.

Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:11 am

Good Idea Kevin

Mowser and I on are latest trip up Mount Ida

More pics on our long weekend adventure thread
And the video of the completed runs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fZq17O78vEs

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JMbrg1t9o5M

a few years back on Mount Ida
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Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:18 am

KevinMc wrote: Clara wrote:

Holy shite thats a steep road! :)

ya,
I got stuck. The road turned out to be clay and slick as hell in the pouring rain.

more story: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2...mp;start=0

more pics:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?...t_dir=DESC

Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:32 am

$100 Bill at Chadwick, MO with Neal behind the wheel:

Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:22 am

this has just become my favorite thread on here... ace