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We use that for Oregon and Washington. The maps are around $30 a years but we spend a lot of time in these two states. I used in my neighborhood as we lived in a rural area. It was pretty accurate. It did help us in eastern Washington which has little BLM land to decide if we should camp in this...

Have a great time folks. We are still at home but trying for Monday departure. It looks like a swing into Eastern WA, eastern OR, then up the coast for us. Looking forward to reports.

Benchmark and Avenza's PDF Maps app. I also use Ultimate Campground app. Like Park, we usually have no idea where we will be camping as we are explorers. I look at my paper/digital maps, find a USFS, BLM or state forest road then drive until we find a bench or clearing off the side of the road...

Today I was editing emails and guess what, MuleHawk (Luke and Amy) stayed at our place this past Summer after a time in Canada. Small world. Very cool people. Happy trails again. We offer free camping to Boondockets Welcome members. We have met some amazing people that way.

Storm? What storm? Thursday had us worried what with sheets of rain and gusty winds, but since then, phhhht. Nada. Typical rainy PNW. Next time, it's come he11 or high water. You folks have lots of fun. I guess we will head down the Oregon Coast and see what agates the gravel beds have.

Hubby made his coffee in the camper this morning. We have wood heat in the house plus buckets of water on standby to flush toilet (septic system plus well), lots of kerosene plus LED lanterns charged, flashlights ready, camp stove with ample supply of propane. We have been through lots of these...

While they may be benign stewards of public land, I am not really fond of being buzzed in really remote areas: Flook Lake in Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge, Lime Creek area south of Challis, ID and in the Modoc National Forest along USFS road 136. They broke the sound barrier and were flying away...

We are experiencing a wave of 3 storms here in the PNW. Our power was out for only 8 hours today but it has been out 4+ days. Our naighbors gate was crushed by a fir that toppled. We own wooded acreage and have had our own trees fall including old second growth Douglas Firs. Our daughter who has...

Thank-you Vic.

We may see you then at Capitol Reef as we may be there close to that date. Of course, we may get distracted and off course, but that's the fun of exploring. So far, I have us on 20 east then south through the Scablands then down through Oregon along 395 along to Denio, into Winnemucca, Nevada...

Beautiful!!!!!!!

When we drove to Colorado to pick up our Hallmark, we drove the dreaded interstates almost the entire way including the blustery one across Windy Wyoming. MPG was around 14+ or - unloaded. 2008 Ford F250 6.4 liter SuperDuty diesel, long bed, extended cab. He uses the Tow-haul feature a lot...

We were shooting waterfalls east of Cottage Grove, Oregon. There was a promising one near where we were camped so to catch it before the sun reached it, we arrived early only to find this ghastly plastic flowered memorial where no angle would eliminate it. I did report it to the USFS because it...

We did visit that area and stayed at the campground on the lake. Beautiful place. We met a fisher from Colorado who fishes here every chance he can because of the solitude. The fall color on the road in was spectacular. A bit bumpy but most best places have bumpy roads. It was be a grievous deed...

I read that article in one of the few places we had a signal. And, we were in the Yaak River area of Montana earlier where bear warnings were frequently posted. We have big dogs, bear spray, guns and keep our campsite clean but you can believe I had a bear dream. What a great attitude and sense...

I don't know the answer but we must get a handle on this. Recently on the Oregon Coast some idiots pushed over an out of bounds sand rock formation because their friend broke his ankle. Similar to the dumb ones who pushed over the goblin in Utah. I just shake my head. I know some of you have...

We have been buzzed on Flook Lake in the Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge (broke the sound barrier and we almost lost a leashed dog) and on USFS roads Modoc N F. Also, this past trip we were south of Challis on BLM land rockhounding when 4 buzzed by too darn close.

Our camping party is me and my husband plus two pups: standard poodle and pudelpointer. Good friendly dogs. We keep them leashed.

We aren't sure what we will be doing after the meetup as we planned to pick your minds. Sounds like a great campfire topic. I have loosely planned our week long trip to VotG but afterwards is open. We usually avoid interstates opting for the blue highways and lonely highways like Nevada's 50 and...

You can message me for a link to my Facebook account to friend me and you can see iPhone photos of our travels. We leave again this Thursday for our SW trip and we just returned Thursday. I am trying to figure out a route that we haven't taken before with an eye on the weather for passes. We may...

We just returned from a 4 week exploration to NE Washington, Idaho, Very western part of Montana and returned home via eastern Oregon and the coast. We avoid interstates period. Some random info for you: OREGON coast has few boondocking spots except in national and state forests. IIRC, most...

We have an onboard bath with flush toilet and black water tank. But, when nature calls and we don't have time to raise top out in the middle of nowhere especially in the alkaline desert areas where digging a hole is difficult, we have a portable seat that folds. We sit on that, do our...

You mentioned pen cleaning and re-inking. Do you illustrate? Being an illustrator I would be interested in your drawings. One of the members of this forum does watercolor illustrations of his travels which are stunning. We live north of you in Bellingham and it is beautiful around here but you...

Okay, cool by default. Which photos are cool? Rock stars or scenic? Hope to share photos and experiences with this groups "cool" photographers. You know who you are. And, to hear Smoke's stories when he worked for BLM.

Uh, I am not and have never been cool. You must have me confused with ski3pin, Foy, Ted, Smoke or any one of a number of folks who ooze cool. I am, however, probably the only person in this forum to have officially photographed Johnny Depp playing guitar with Alice Cooper. When we all meet up...