Show me pics of your camp sites!!

[dmulk]

Thought it would be nice to have a thread dedicated to photos of camp sites.
So post up and show us your tents, chairs, etc!

I'll try and find one tonight....I think I have a good one of Finewest from our last trip!


<D>

[STCPO]

This one is up in Mena, Ark. Rained and rained the first day, but we all had fun anyway and got some great riding in after the clouds passed through.

http://pkac.smugmug.com/photos/77675043-M.jpg

http://pkac.smugmug.com/photos/77674778-M.jpg

http://pkac.smugmug.com/photos/77674635-M.jpg

[Trekker]

Here are three from My run to CampSTOC last year.

In a KOA campground in northern Virginia. Killer bunnies every where!

At Cloadland Canyons State Pk in Georgia. Shared a site with Biker George. Thanks Geo!

At Willville Motorcycle Camp in Meadows of Dan, Virginia. Great place!

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[ChucksKLRST]

I don't do alot of ST camping but the KLR is another story.

http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21599&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21599&d=1187534203) http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21600&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21600&d=1187534246) http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21601&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21601&d=1187534440)

[Subdivided]

Here are some pictures of campsites on a little trip I took last year. Check this link for the whole story. http://www.chromeheads.org/discus/messages/8/278928.html

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Enjoy!

[dmulk]

Dave,

That's a BIG tent! What model / brand is that?

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[motomac]

Here are a couple of mine with the Bunkhouse and Wing (RIP) and the Eureka Apex.

[Mellow]

Kettle Campground in Eureka Springs, AR

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/171278822-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/171278822-L.jpg)

DesertSTOC


http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/132042403-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/132042403-L.jpg)

Monohans State Park, TX

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/132043805-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/132043805-L.jpg)

Guadalupe Nat'l Park

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58235723-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58235723-L.jpg)

KOA in Amarillo, TX

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/94730240-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/94730240-L.jpg)

Joshua Tree National Park

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/94730244-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/94730244-L.jpg)

Montery Bay State Park

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/94730263-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/94730263-L.jpg)

Crater Lake Nat'l Park

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/94730526-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/94730526-L.jpg)

Trinidad State Park, Colorado

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58264992-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58264992-L.jpg)

KOA in Dubois, WY

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58265057-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58265057-L.jpg)

Yellowstone Nat'l Park

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58265090-S.jpg (http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58265090-L.jpg)

[Grantizzle]

I don't do alot of ST camping but the KLR is another story.

http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21599&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21599&d=1187534203) http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21600&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21600&d=1187534246) http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21601&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21601&d=1187534440)

in the middle pic, is that a diet coke bottle full of pee?

[Trekker]

Dave,

That's a BIG tent! What model / brand is that?

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If your asking me... that is a Eureka Timberline 4. Nice easy to set up a-frame. A bit too big for me, and I recently added a Eureka Backcountry 2 to my gear. It's much smaller in pack size, but not very tall.

[AzDesertRider]

Flagstaff, AZ.
Williams, AZ
South of Quemado Lake New Mexico.

[nm6r]

Personally, I love a room with a view.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~st1300rider/07-11-04/LagunaSeca%2005.jpg

Ray

[ChucksKLRST]

in the middle pic, is that a diet coke bottle full of pee?


No, that was beer. The park had a rule of no alcohol / containers. So we improvised, adapted and over came.

[Grantizzle]

smart man.

[sandman]

Here's a few from the last 3 years.

1. Mt. Magazine State Park, Arkansas
2. Lake Chicot State Park, Louisiana
3. IronHorse Motorcycle Lodge, North Carolina
4. Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground, North Carolina
5. Cloudland Canyon State Park, Georgia
6. Here's what It's all about, Bryan (georgegeorge) and Mike (mikep1300) making lasting friends you've only talked to on the internet.

[dmulk]

Joe,

What campsite is that Yellowstone site?

Trying to pick my yellowstone camp site for the WeSTOC trip this year...


Thanks,

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[dmulk]

Nice pics guys! keep them coming!!

[uptoblackwood]

Here are a couple of mine with the Bunkhouse and Wing (RIP) and the Eureka Apex.
Do you have a rug and dancing girls in that blue tent thingy?

Forest

[Highrider]

Here's a few ...
1. Idaho
2. Wyoming - outside Teton Natl Park
3. Montana - Flathead Lake Reservation
4. Colorado @ 8,000 ft elev.
5. Top-O'- the Rockies, Paonia, Co
6. Paonia, Co
7. Boise, ID - BMWROA Rally
8. Paonia - again

[motomac]

Do you have a rug and dancing girls in that blue tent thingy?

ForestAs a matter of fact........

[Mellow]

Joe,

What campsite is that Yellowstone site?

Trying to pick my yellowstone camp site for the WeSTOC trip this year...


Thanks,

<D>

I don't remember the name of it but it's on the southern part of the park from the south entrance... 1st 'village' you come to. There are many to choose from and that one looked like it was huge... but, being yellowstone, they need a lot of campsites.

[Spencer]

http://e.yimg.com/tr.us.o.yimg.com/imgs/V/V03003/V03003_POOL_01_J.jpg

Spencer:scared2:

[Northeast Rider]

http://e.yimg.com/tr.us.o.yimg.com/imgs/V/V03003/V03003_POOL_01_J.jpg

Spencer:scared2:




This is the inside of Mac's blue thingy, and Ive seen the dancing girls!!!!!!!

[HankSTer]

lol Spencer ;) not exactly roughing it there are ya ;)

[Bones]

Some of the sites I've camped at in Vermont and New York. The water is Piseco Lake in the Adirondacks...beautiful. The Vermont shots are at Allis State Park near the infamous "floating bridge." (We make BIG caveman TV! :cf1: ).

And those black hands? No, not for a carry permit. No, I wasn't finger painting. No, that's what happens when you ride in soaking rain without waterproof gloves. Took a whole box of powdered handsoap to clean that off. (Better blue gloves on the outside than black hands on the inside.)

Spencer, I don't see your tent. :rolleyes:

[Mellow]

Oh... well, didn't know we were gonna tell stories too... LOL

Okay, here's one where Rick (Trailace) and I were camping in Colorado on our way to Yellowstone. It was dark and we found an RV campground that was just about deserted... pulled in, nice place w/very nice facilities. The site was obviously for RV and we couldn't find a tent-only area so we picked one and pitched our tents behind in the grassy area...

About 2am, the sprinklers went off, I called Rick on his cell and just laughed... Before we hit the sack he mentioned how nice of a night it was and that he might just not put the rainfly on and I said it might get dewy overnight so he probably should...

Anyway, you can see me peeking out of my tent....

He jumped out at the right moment and lodged a rock in the sprinkler to keep it aimed away from us....

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58335309-L.jpg

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58265041-L.jpg

[uptoblackwood]

Is "dewy" a word? LOL

[Mellow]

Is "dewy" a word? LOL

It is now... :nanner1:

[motomac]

http://e.yimg.com/tr.us.o.yimg.com/imgs/V/V03003/V03003_POOL_01_J.jpg

Spencer:scared2: And to think I sent my KLR seat to this guy!!!! LOL!!!

[uptoblackwood]

And to think I sent my KLR seat to this guy!!!! LOL!!!
That's a good thing. If this is his version of camping, you know that seat has to be comfortable!

Forest

[Grantizzle]

I don't remember the name of it but it's on the southern part of the park from the south entrance... 1st 'village' you come to. There are many to choose from and that one looked like it was huge... but, being yellowstone, they need a lot of campsites.


could it be "grant's village?"

A friend and I stayed there last year for a night, but it was very crowded. we left early the next morning due to serious hangovers, very hard ground, and the guy in the campsite next to us constantly sparking doobies in his tent.

[Mellow]

could it be "grant's village?"

A friend and I stayed there last year for a night, but it was very crowded. we left early the next morning due to serious hangovers, very hard ground, and the guy in the campsite next to us constantly sparking doobies in his tent.

The name sounds familiar... might be it...

We camped near the restrooms and it was a nice quiet night except a couple people decided they wanted to stand by the restrooms and talk loudly... kinda rude in my opinion but when you are in one of these campgrounds, not everyone has the 'common sense' and target of enjoying a nice quiet night.

I have no problem packing up and moving to another site if fellow campers are obnoxious.. I usually camp on non-holidays primarily to reduce those situations from happening.

[Grantizzle]

this was during the middle of the week, but in summer. almost all the site were full.

[wjbertrand]

Here's our site atop Fox Hill at Laguna Seca for the 2005 MotoGP races:

http://inlinethumb08.webshots.com/1287/1393440055039006121S425x425Q85.jpg (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1393440055039006121TuWIxw)

[STindy05]

Here it is:

[STindy05]

OK...I am kidding! That was it till this year, just got my tent and camping gear and am ready for the weather to break so I can go try it out.

[MidLife]

.....Utah......

[dmulk]

.....Utah......


What tent is that, ML?

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[MidLife]

What tent is that, ML?

<D>

It's a 2 person Big Agnes Seedhouse.

[nm6r]

Here are a few of our campsites...

http://www.frontiernet.net/~st1300rider/09-07-06/DCP_6872.JPG
The Blue Crew and Squirrel Hunter in UT (on the way to WeSToc XII)


http://www.frontiernet.net/~st1300rider/07-09-06/DCP_6355.JPG
Morgan, UT (on the way to Aerostich)

http://www.frontiernet.net/~st1300rider/07-09-06/DCP_6391.JPG
Duluth, MN

http://www.frontiernet.net/~st1300rider/07-09-06/DCP_6406.JPG
Valley City, ND

http://www.frontiernet.net/~st1300rider/07-09-06/DCP_6416.JPG
Big Timber, MT

http://www.frontiernet.net/~st1300rider/09-02-07/DCP_8164.JPG
Near Crater Lake, OR


More pictures on my ST1300 Rider web site (http://www.frontiernet.net/~st1300rider/) and on my Windows Live Space (http://nm6r.spaces.live.com/).

Ray

[KrazyKooter]

Wow, nm6r's has a dancing girl!

[uptoblackwood]

Wow, nm6r's has a dancing girl!
He must have taken her from Mac's blue tent thingy....!!!

[alphafang]

OK I know it's not really the point is it. I can't find one with the tent and the bike.

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p313/alphafang/DCP_0023.jpg

Sorry
Paul

[Finewest]

Great thread Dan! Dan does have a pic of me doing my "Flop-Down-Where-Ever-I-Lay" style of camping. See if you can find it Dan? When I get home I'll dig some of mine out. I use to do a lot of 4x4 back-desert camping. I got some of those too! Love it!

[Trekker]

Oh look.... a caravan !! :D

Anyone see the episode of Top Gear where the guys pulled a caravan (camper trailer)? Too funny.

[Mark]

Top Gear knows how to handle a 'caravan'!!!
And I agree; that is the only thing that should be done with many of the RVs that come to AZ every winter!!!

The summer drivers are almost as bad as they have kids/dogs/cats/wife to take their attention off the road...

Mark

[alphafang]

Top Gear is good TV. I think the episode with the caravan holiday was really funny. Dangerous but funny. The TV folk love destroying caravans have you seen Brainiacs they blow one up in every show.
I agree with a lot of the argument about caravans been a pain in the a** when you end up behind one thats struggling up hills and braking every second on the down hill stretches. But in my defence I honestly dont think I cause those problems. It's all down to having the right tow vehicle and a four litre Jeep with induction kit and high lift cam is powerful enough to pull my caravan up any hill with the flow of traffic, and heavy enough to slow it down. I have on occastions beaten cars off from the lights, especially when you know they are in the wrong lane and want the same lane as you and think they can pass by out dragging you at the lights.....Silly people...no chance. I do have an evil streak.
Paul
Ps would I be trailor trash in the States???

[UNTMatt]

Here's our style of camping....:D

Two Wheel Inn (http://www.twowheelinn.com/)

http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=27275&stc=1&d=1201881100


Due to current funding limitations, a tent will replace the hotel and inn for a while. Camping will not replace going to a restaraunt to eat, or finding a hot shower somewhere.

[Hawk52]

Camping Jasper Park Alberta

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Around the Drumheller Bad Lands
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[Nevada]

I've got two good ones here from my '04 RideAboot. One is from Long Key, Florida, the tent is less than a bike length from the Atlantic Ocean, the second is from the high prairie in Eastern Colorado. Unfortunately, only the first is on this computer.

[Northeast Rider]

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Mac, Kempo and me

[George]

Here's my last camp site, on the way to Santa Ysabel a couple weeks ago. The pad and sleeping bag are on the ground next to the left side of the bike. Picture was taken about 6AM, Sunday, March 9, a few miles west of Salton Sea, CA.

http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=28716&d=1205875445

[CMac]

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6868/3301/1600/IMG_0584.jpg

[Brad Felmey]

3:00AM camping in Coldfoot (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Coldfoot,+Alaska&ie=UTF8&ll=65.946472,-139.526367&spn=11.919453,42.890625&z=5&iwloc=addr):

http://bbs.tsba.org/imagehosting/147e27c4ac61bf.jpg

For those of you who have been to Alaska in July, you know how incredible this picture of a hearty Uly rider is:

http://bbs.tsba.org/imagehosting/147e27c4b0f0a4.jpg

[jahoobob]

September 1971 on the bank of the Little Tennessee River between the Foothills Pkwy and the "entrance" to the Dragon.
I apologize about the quality but this is a scan of a 110 phot that is over 35 years old.

[roadkingx]

Winding Stair Campground on the Talimena Scenic Byway near Talihina, OK.

[bluedragon]

Here's a few pictures from a trip to Big Sur, CA last August. Pardon the cruisers.

[woodspirit]

Here are a couple from northern peninsula in Newfouldland and Labrador from our trip last summer. Beautiful country if you like moose and icebergs! Also a pic of my wife in front of sign for Dildo Run provincial park... No comment :)

[LeeWonnacott]

Here's one of the more than 20 that I've been at during the last five weeks.

It's Big Pine Key at mile marker 33 in the Florida Keys. Very level area, but the Key Deer are a problem. They tend to mess with your gear if they smell food!:confused:

[patiodadio]

This is Chateau de ST camp at the AMA races in camp ground "C" , Barber Motorsports Park this year. We had a fantistic time and met a lot of nice folks.

[Texason]

I don't do alot of ST camping but the KLR is another story.

http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21599&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21599&d=1187534203) http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21600&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21600&d=1187534246) http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21601&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1188862373 (http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21601&d=1187534440)

That Diet Coke in the middle picture looks more like, um,... Mellow Yellow. :puk1:

[Texason]

Here are three from My run to CampSTOC last year.

In a KOA campground in northern Virginia. Killer bunnies every where!

At Cloadland Canyons State Pk in Georgia. Shared a site with Biker George. Thanks Geo!

At Willville Motorcycle Camp in Meadows of Dan, Virginia. Great place!

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Do you bring motorcycle covers with you on your camping trips or are those your rain flies?

[Texason]

Some of the sites I've camped at in Vermont and New York. The water is Piseco Lake in the Adirondacks...beautiful. The Vermont shots are at Allis State Park near the infamous "floating bridge." (We make BIG caveman TV! :cf1: ).

And those black hands? No, not for a carry permit. No, I wasn't finger painting. No, that's what happens when you ride in soaking rain without waterproof gloves. Took a whole box of powdered handsoap to clean that off. (Better blue gloves on the outside than black hands on the inside.)

Spencer, I don't see your tent. :rolleyes:

HILARIOUS! Wood hauling!

[dmulk]

Do you bring motorcycle covers with you on your camping trips or are those your rain flies?

Those are covers.

THe brown one looks like a Nelson Rigg model.

I carry a Nelson with me. It's nice not sitting on a wet seat in the morning. :)

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[Texason]

Oh... well, didn't know we were gonna tell stories too... LOL

Okay, here's one where Rick (Trailace) and I were camping in Colorado on our way to Yellowstone. It was dark and we found an RV campground that was just about deserted... pulled in, nice place w/very nice facilities. The site was obviously for RV and we couldn't find a tent-only area so we picked one and pitched our tents behind in the grassy area...

About 2am, the sprinklers went off, I called Rick on his cell and just laughed... Before we hit the sack he mentioned how nice of a night it was and that he might just not put the rainfly on and I said it might get dewy overnight so he probably should...

Anyway, you can see me peeking out of my tent....

He jumped out at the right moment and lodged a rock in the sprinkler to keep it aimed away from us....

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58335309-L.jpg

http://mellow.smugmug.com/photos/58265041-L.jpg

You know, in some places that is how they "dispose" of the liquids from a septic system. :puk1:

[Trekker]

Do you bring motorcycle covers with you on your camping trips or are those your rain flies?

Like Dan says... Bike cover. I use a Nelson 1/2 cover all the time. It keeps the bike protected from rain AND morning dew (and tends to keep prying eyes away too).

[Chase16]

Winter trip to Mexico and back.

[dmulk]

bump!!! lets update this!!!

Plenty o pics on my blog!

I wanna see some new ones!!


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[George]

Here's one from my Sept. trip. my favorite type: Cornfield Campground, somewhere in west central Indiana:

http://www.st-owners.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=36298&d=1222502999
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A couple hunnert yards off of IN 63. The field on the right (north side) is really wet and brown, the field on the left looked ready to harvest. In between, just fine.

[dond]

Thought it would be nice to have a thread dedicated to photos of camp sites.
So post up and show us your tents, chairs, etc!

I'll try and find one tonight....I think I have a good one of Finewest from our last trip!


<D>C'mon Mellow, show us your "chair" :p:

[AzDesertRider]

(1) camp at Hannigan Meadow 2008 666 RTE.
(2) AZ RTE 08 Camp at Payson, Nat. Forest camping no park needed
(3) Dinner time at Alamo lake Camp.
(4) TentSToc 08 Arches Nat Park.
(5) Red Canyon UT. on the way home from Arches.

[Pat Thompson]

Here's some of the campsite pics from my recent trip. It's an 8'x7' Coleman tent. It and the sleeping bag, thermarest pad, and hammer for tent stakes all fit in my left hand saddlebag. Other camping gear like jet boil stove, coffee fixin's, utensils, in right side. Clothes, laptop in rear trunk. No deck chairs, cots, etc. We be bare bones. :D

Other campsite pics are in with my trip reports at link in my sig below.

Locations l to r: Calaveras Big Trees St Prk, Mt Lassen NP, Crater Lake NP, Iron Creek, Van Duzen (Humboldt County).

[DAS]

Tented every night in July but only got photos of 2 sites. Thunder storms about blew away in Gillette (BMW MOA rally).