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I tow a horse trailer, a trailer would not work for me, but thank you for the suggestion. I saw a Northstar camper that had easy access to the cab over bunk, it was deluxe camper out of my price range. Thank you for your suggestion

I tow a 3 horse trailer, a sprinter does not have the power and suspension I need, but thank you for the suggestion.

I tow a horse trailer, a travel trailer would not work for me, but thank you for the suggestion.

I have used a Palomino Bronco for years on my long bed F250. It has all the bells and whistles I like, hot water, furnace, frig, stove top, shower, toilet. I spend time fixing it, that 2x2 construction does not hold up well on forest and ranch roads. However, the big issue for me is climbing...

Stew had my ride almost correct. I actually started on Wildrose Peak 9064 feet, rode down burro trails till I found an very old dozer trail which I followed down to the south fork of Trail Canyon. Quite a spectacular descent. Back in there I found a cabin with the table set, wine jug on the...

I am planning a horse and mule trip from Los Angeles to Santa Fe on the Old Spanish Trail. How does this relate to Campers? Well, most of it will be car camping, and I will have my poptop. The trip will be a promotion for Backcountry Horsemen of America and for the Old Spanish Trail. Many of...

don't forget Alaska and Peru! Doug could be a character in a Graham Greene novel, a peripatetic wanderer. I don't chip in to this forum too often, as my camper is tertiary to other stuff I have going on, primarily wilderness horse and mule stuff. But, I enjoy following his posts and photos. He...

Thanks to Doug for posting the book, and thanks to ski3pin for buying a copy! It is an old fashioned kind of tale, us arrieros are old fashioned kind of people! Ski3pin, don't know if Doug told you but, I used to do a bit of 3 pinning. Richard

I am sorry, I depended on my memory, which did work years ago. the true url is: http://soldonsun.com/ I reckon there is a way to work around that. Bondo comes to mind:)

I am glad that you can get up by standing up! My process is a bit different, I crawl to the edge of the bed, dangle a foot until I find the settee, brace myself on the kitchen shelf and sort thunk to the floor, Don't know what I will do as I age into further crikityness.

1. Being adverse to drilling holes in the roof, I route the cables over the side at the curved graphic, then tucked it in through a small gap in the top of the curtain, then down through and behind some woodwork to the battery compartment. I had to drill two small holes, nothing is visible...

It is an 06. It had been absorbing moisture at the front piece. With the fog on the coast the roof gets wet pretty much every night. The moisture flowed off the roof and got held up at the front seam between the roof metal and the cross piece, most every night, All it would take is a crack in...

I have been looking for the "perfect" solar panel. and found the UniSolar flexible panels. They glue on with an adhesive, so no drilling into the roof, something I resist. The 128 watt was too long for my roof, the 68 watt is 10 feet long, which works just fine. $169.00 at SoldonSolar.com. If I...

My Palomino roof peeled back from the cross strut above the truck cab. As I examined it I saw a lot of dryrot on the plywood, I chipped that out, painted the wood with a stiffening coating. Then applied the fix: I cut a strip of sheet metal, 5" by what ever the width was, 58" maybe. Just cut...

Although this is an old thread, I thought I would toss my two cents in. I have a Palomino Bronco on a long bed king cab F250. I have it because the person who sold me the truck told me she wasn't going to take it off. So from a spartan camper on my old truck 2004 Ford F350 Diesel, I now have...

I do miss that country up there. I did a week long llama pack trip, down little high rock, up high rock, then a loop through the steppe country. Did that with Chris when he was 13, and a couple of clients.

That is me in the Jeep photo, a nasty windy night, but with a tarp up side of the Jeep and sleeping up against the tarp, tis tolerable, almost..

Brings up a question I've been meaning to ask. I know that Cal4wheel does a trip along the lassen emigrant trail, but they have a special use permit for that. Is it open for solo travel? Is it suitable for a full size rig? I have driven it, walked it, ridden parts of it on horseback, taken...

Made me homesick. Great report, great photos. I have hiked, llama packed and horse packed in the Toiyabe Range, it is one of my favorite places. Regarding the road to Ophir. Last time I went up from the west, one could have driven a Buick up the road. Just east of the crest on the north slope...

I can dream that the lack of services will force BLM to remove the Zit on the Face of the Desert called Burning Man. Won't happen but it would be a wonderful thing. Let the Black Rock Desert revert to obscurity for the adventurous.

Yup! When will DD be campered again...September? Too hot to go to the Black Rock anyway until post-summer...though I did spend a night there on July-4 weekend a few years ago. Speaking of Burning Man, (Aug 29 - Sep 5) I just visited the website and saw that this year's Art Theme is "Rites of...

We have an active group of Forest Volunteers on the Los Padres Forest, the Los Padres Forest Association and others, including the BackCountry Horsemen. If any of you are in the area and would like to get involved you can reach the LPFA at: My link A couple of photos of our activities...

You're right, of course. Our rule-of-thumb, back in the day, was a half-case/day...I guess I was with the wrong group! And the Black Rock was an excellent place for that kind of bad behavior!...out on the playa away from any others, anyway. A couple of Fly Geyser stories. When my son was 6...

This is the parking lot at Boreal Ridge, sometime in the late 90's

I read where this is the biggest winter since 1969. 50 feet of snow has fallen around Truckee and the lake.