Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread

[Beaverboy]

I forgot to add a few pics from my thread in here.

The West coast of Newfoundland:

(more about the trip)

[vwlovr]

sunset in yellowstone...

[dbcdad]

streching our legs in Santa Tomas

On the Bluff obove ''Long Beach"

Picking up the Kayaks off of the Beach

Walking to the beach from the Bluff

Have Fun, David C

1987 GL_Syncro_Country Homes Top_Westfalia Interior_Custom front and back racks_45 Watt HF Solar mounted under the Rack

[Herr Motorspiele]

Finally figured out a way to reduce picture file size so here are some from a trip last year. Blue Ridge Parkway in NC. Grandfather Mountain, 5,305'. "Mile high swinging bridge"
Hope this qualifies for wilderness!

[Timwhy]

The wife, Rooney and I got to take a weekend trip too Mt Dessert Island, ME.

Drove around the island and saw three other Westys. One from Hawaii!

A dark red late 80's with a SA grill and a roof rack and a lime green Bay window.

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[danno]

2009 Grey Lake Forestry camp site on Vancouver Island our first try with the Westfalia Tent. She looked less than impressed when she took all of the poles out, but we got it together and even tested it out in the rain it worked well but kind of a pain to set up and take down.

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[shepherdsond]

Just got back from a week long road trip from PDX through Idaho into Montana over the Magruder corridor road then up to Glacier N.P. and down past Flathead lake. Then took the old Lolo Motorway over the Bitterroot Mountains back through Idaho. The Lolo Motorway in particular is spectacular as it winds its way from ridge top to ridge top in the steps of Lewis and Clark and the Nez Perce before them (http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/lewisclark/lcic/grasslands/lolo_motorway.html).

Burnt Knob on the Magruder Corridor (4WD road)

Glacier

Camping on the Lolo "Motorway"

[debbiej]

westy still life

rainy afternoon

cross a tiny stream

[jackbombay]

Here is where we woke up this morning, about 1/2 mile from the Mount Borah trailhead.

Mt Borah is the tallest peak in Idaho, a few week back a friend was visiting from out of town and browsing our atlas, he noted that Mt Borah was not that far from us and asked if we had ever climbed it, we hadn't, till today.

Wednesday I loooked at the forecast and it was prime for today, so yesterday afternoon I started getting the van ready, E got off work around 7:00, she helped get the last few thing done with the van and we were off at about 8:30, and parked at about 11:30.

We got up at about 7:00 this morning and made a bitchin breakfast then drove to the trailhead and started hiking at 7:45.

This is a BRUTE of a hike, 3.5 miles and 5250' of climbing the peak is 12,662.

Here is a pic of the front of our van and the peak of Borah in the back, this was taken after we hiked,

On the way up there were tons of old trees that were partially burnt and dead from perpetual drought, Mt Borah and the associated range is the driest range in the rocky mountains, ~10" of precip a year in the surrounding towns so all the trees are stunted mangled pieces of wood.

And this is becoming a habit of mine, whenever I am at some notable highest point, I stand on the actual highest point and jump as high as I can so There is a very good chance that nobody in Idaho has ever been as high as me without the aid of a plane, heli, etc...

Summit Beer! I have never been as high as I was today and drank a beer at the same time, it was awesome . At the exact moment that I cracked that beer open everyone else up there realized that for a short period of time I was king of the world

Shot from the top,

If you know where to look in this pic you can see our van,

Here you can see it in this way zoomed in pic,

And we finished the day off with a quick swim in Mackay reservoir on our way home

And if you look in the background of this pic I took on the way home you can see ayers rock, its a little blurry though...

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[domromer]

We took our Westy out for the first camping trip this weekend. We drove from our house in Flagstaff up to Mogollon Rim and just explored back there and ending up camping at 8000ft overlooking the Blue Ridge res. The van drove like a champ. The gas gauge was a bit suspect so I was watching that real close and the averaged 21mpg. My only complaint is that at every filling station gas would come shooting out after the pump. Don't know what that's about. Guess i'll have to look into it. I was well impressed how well the Westy handle 60 miles of dirt roads and some pretty hairy 4wheel drive trails. Here are some pics from the weekend.

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[debbiej]

here is more of the Gila Wilderness.

nice van domromer!
I think I saw it on Craigs list, my son lives in Tucson, and we often check to see what is for sale in AZ before we go visit him. several friends and family have asked us to keep an eye out for a nice van. Congratulations!

[kshbaja]

From my recent road trip around BC. The vanagon is mine and the bay just happened to pull up next door. South coast of Vancouver Island.

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[Alaric.H]

I went driving on the beach in Cape Cod I got dug in a couple of times nothing the diff locks could not handle.
I would not try it in a 2wd I do not think they would not even let you in.There are about 200 seals you drive past laying on the beach.



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[Sodo]

Gallaher lake, again ----> Sept 3, 2009. About 1.5 hour (~2.5 miles) from the end of the gravel on a 4wd road. We had to stop to fill lots of holes and dips because of the reduced departure angle. This time we had a little motorcycle on the front, and another on the back. The "cascade blueberries" were ripe and plentiful so we had blueberry pancakes for breakfast!

20 seconds exposure, and a full moon. (~) "Mrs. Sodo" is hassling the fire.
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[Crughy]

Not a very high quality photo.

Last long weekend in the Saguenay Fjord in Quebec.

JP

[markmc90]

Here are a couple of shots from central Oregon, at the base of Mt. Bachelor, by Elk Lake. I needed the diff lock on this one.

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[jkidd152]

Here is the last adventure of the Green Bean and the final straw that led me to buying a Vanagon.

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[syncroand101]

Thought I'd stick this on in here as well as the other thread, will add some more when I have been through my iPhoto

In the Morrocan Sahara

[msinabottle]

This is not QUITE the wildnerness... Although that road DID get pretty rough... But here's Winston looming out of the woods in the Mummy Range, over the Cache Le Poudre River near Mishiwaka, Colorado:

Best!
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