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avwa Samba Member
Joined: March 14, 2005 Posts: 217
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 6:28 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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A little spot on my property in East Tennessee |
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Corwyn Samba Member
Joined: December 29, 2009 Posts: 2237 Location: Olympia, Washington
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captmatthew1 Samba Member
Joined: June 07, 2016 Posts: 95 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:46 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Day camping up Vincent Creek, Or. _________________ Matthew Alig
1980 VW Vanagon Tin-Top Camper Conversion |
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4x4BNB Samba Member
Joined: January 08, 2012 Posts: 274 Location: PNW
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Went up to the Cle Elum area in search of snow with negative results
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gears Samba Member
Joined: October 28, 2002 Posts: 4391 Location: Tamarack, Bend, Kailua
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 12:00 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Mt Bachelor backside this summer ..
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9.36 @ 146 in '86 Hot & Sticky
'90 Syncro Westy SVX
'87 Syncro GL 2.5
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Alaskaberrys Samba Member
Joined: June 19, 2016 Posts: 1001 Location: SE Alaska
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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A beautiful night boondocking in northern Utah. This last September. _________________ '91 Westfalia, Bordeaux Red Pearl 2.1L 2wd Auto
'91 T3 Syncro Doka, Escorial Green 1.9L TD AAZ “Gremian” (to provoke, irritate, exasperate, vex...) |
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dgg Samba Member
Joined: October 20, 2016 Posts: 3 Location: MT
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 4:53 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Turkey day 2016 the maiden voyage: MT to Moab
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narendra.vw Samba Member
Joined: February 07, 2013 Posts: 440 Location: Bangalore India
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 9:55 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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This Chris-ms Holidays were spent in Reserve forest camp with my family. 250 km away from my city.
Nature’s beauty viewed from where my Van was parked.
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Merian Samba Member
Joined: January 04, 2014 Posts: 5212 Location: Orygun
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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India has nice lodges in their forest camps?
or is that building something else? _________________ .... |
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narendra.vw Samba Member
Joined: February 07, 2013 Posts: 440 Location: Bangalore India
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Merian wrote: |
India has nice lodges in their forest camps?
or is that building something else? |
The building you see is Officer's Guest house not a lodge.
since I knew the Officer he was kind to allow us to stay there.
For forest camp, we have to drive down few km.
Near the forest camp.
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vegpedlr Samba Member
Joined: June 07, 2014 Posts: 774 Location: TBD
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Joshua Tree NP enroute to Busses by the Bridge. Mixed winter weather, some rain, strong winds, pretty cold. When clear, a big beautiful moon.
_________________ 1985 Tintop 4 sp GW 2.3 “Connie”
2006 Mk V GTI 2.0 FSI “Penelope” |
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Vanlife Geek Samba Member
Joined: September 19, 2014 Posts: 285 Location: CO
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Here are some shot of my camping spots in Roosevelt National Forest, just outside Rocky Mountain National Park and about 20 minutes from my home in Estes Park.
And a view from the "lounge"
And a very recent shot in RMNP, where I work much of the time. (Ypsilon Mountain in the background)
_________________ Vanlife Geek
Current:
1986 Syncro Westy
Previous:
1983 Westy
1981 Westy
1972 Bug (Last year you could buy a new one for under $2,000)
1965/66 Bug (2 bugs from a junk yard combined to make 1 functional bug)
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dobryan Samba Member
Joined: March 24, 2006 Posts: 16503 Location: Brookeville, MD
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Vanlife Geek Samba Member
Joined: September 19, 2014 Posts: 285 Location: CO
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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dobryan wrote: |
^^^^. Nice! |
Thanks! _________________ Vanlife Geek
Current:
1986 Syncro Westy
Previous:
1983 Westy
1981 Westy
1972 Bug (Last year you could buy a new one for under $2,000)
1965/66 Bug (2 bugs from a junk yard combined to make 1 functional bug)
1959 Bug (Pre Gas Gauge Era) |
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llilibel03 Samba Member
Joined: February 03, 2008 Posts: 767 Location: Redondo Beach California
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Mofus wrote: |
Not a Westy (yet), but here we are at Fiesta Island in San Diego. You can drive on the sand, and have your dog run (and swim) wild; at least until they build a resort on it. It was about 80-degrees. There was a Santa Ana and the wind kicked up to about 30 miles and hour. It was cool looking, but the wind driven sand gets in all of your orifices, and the van's.
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Wow. I was perusing this thread and found my old synchro! Unmistakeable the Hawaiian stencil design I did. Nice to know she's still around or was 8 years ago. |
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UngaWunga Samba Member
Joined: May 18, 2016 Posts: 172 Location: NH
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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jacob. Samba Member
Joined: August 10, 2009 Posts: 802
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:39 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Medora Campground in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
Ran into this guy there. He loved the skull camo. Said he had just bought this bus for way too much money a week before, immediately drove from Jersey on his way to glacier national park to pick up some lady, and had broken down every single day of the trip. He was jealous of my subie powered reliability, but did not envy the ridiculous amount of money I've put into the van.
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jacob gets razzed a lot cause he has the only GEX engine thats lasted longer than half an oil change. |
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kourt Samba Member
Joined: August 13, 2013 Posts: 1944 Location: Austin, TX
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:35 am Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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Sunset at Pawnee Buttes, in the Pawnee National Grassland, northeast Colorado. This area is also littered with active Minuteman nuclear missile silos.
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joetiger Samba Member
Joined: January 27, 2005 Posts: 5078 Location: denver
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:53 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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kourt wrote: |
Sunset at Pawnee Buttes, in the Pawnee National Grassland, northeast Colorado. This area is also littered with active Minuteman nuclear missile silos.
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That's a very cool place. Easy to get lost out there, too (I know from experience ) Everybody wants to go west to the mountains, but Colorado's eastern plains has some fantastic solitary stuff as well. _________________ Joe T.
'86 NAHT Vanagon GL Syncro/ supercharged ABA 2.0 "Pigpen"
'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32
"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron
"Still, it's good to be afield."--VWagabond
Available Now! Vanagon to Louisiana--A Two-Lane Reckoning Through Past and Present
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kourt Samba Member
Joined: August 13, 2013 Posts: 1944 Location: Austin, TX
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagons in the Wilderness Thread |
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joetiger wrote: |
That's a very cool place. Easy to get lost out there, too (I know from experience ) Everybody wants to go west to the mountains, but Colorado's eastern plains has some fantastic solitary stuff as well. |
Yes, we were in the neighborhood visiting the Nebraska state high point. I looked at the GPS and found Pawnee Buttes on the same dirt road just south of the high point. Why not? It was a great place. Lots of folks shooting randomly at things, which was unnerving, but the stars were bright and I made a great hash for dinner. With good software there is no chance of being lost. Thanks for the comment!
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