profdant139
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I assembled all of the photos of our boondocking sites that I could find and put them into one blog post:
Photos of most of our boondocking sites
Many of these shots have already been posted on this thread, so I am not re-posting them. As time goes on, I hope to add more pix to that blog post -- the sooner, the better!
Speaking of sooner, it looks as though the 2015 camping season is going to start very early on the West Coast -- we got almost no snow, and it is melting fast. I know that sounds good to folks suffering through the bad winter east of the Mississippi, but I would rather delay the start of the camping season, in exchange for some moisture. Fire season out West is going to be terrible, starting in May, rather than in September.
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profdant139
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This is a photo of our most recent boondocking experience -- after a few days in Yosemite, we enjoyed two very quiet nights not far from where the Hetch Hetchy road intersects Highway 120. Much of the area nearby had been badly burned in 2013, but there were a few areas that were hardly touched. This site was not as spectacular as some we've seen in the Eastern Sierra, but it still was nice to be by ourselves for a little while:
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profdant139
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(C'mon, folks -- why am I the only one posting on this thread? You know you've got some great photos of your recent boondocking adventures -- load 'em up!)
Anyway, this is in late May of 2015, in the Sequoia National Forest, about 12 miles southwest of Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon:
![[image]](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G_u0k7v3REk/VWztwDpGZKI/AAAAAAAAOT0/_Oxt_xGkoLI/s640/2015%2B05%2B24%2Bus%2B2%2Blmic%2Bmtns.jpg)
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bigred1cav
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We are unlike the west we have no boon docking areas worth photographing
profdant139 wrote:(C'mon, folks -- why am I the only one posting on this thread? You know you've got some great photos of your recent boondocking adventures -- load 'em up!)
Anyway, this is in late May of 2015, in the Sequoia National Forest, about 12 miles southwest of Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon:
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bukhrn
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bigred1cav wrote:We are unlike the west we have no boon docking areas worth photographing
profdant139 wrote:(C'mon, folks -- why am I the only one posting on this thread? You know you've got some great photos of your recent boondocking adventures -- load 'em up!)
Anyway, this is in late May of 2015, in the Sequoia National Forest, about 12 miles southwest of Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon:
Which is the main reason we don't boondock, dry camping yes, but not boondocking. Most of the places I'd love to try, I just can't get to with my MH.
I'll just have to live through your photos, thanks for posting them.
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Memorial day, great weather and scenery. Only minor issue was when my youngest and her friends stayed a night by themselves. When I came back someone had left lights on and me with dead batteries and a warm fridge. A couple hours on the generator and they were fine.
![[image]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8812/18440700781_7b9a667402_z.jpg)
The view
![[image]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/339/18251256420_6bb755aaca_z.jpg)
My shop faces the highway through town, so I'm sitting here watching all the campers go by and wanting to go too. At least I have 2 or 3 more trips planned for this summer.
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reasley
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Memorial Weekend...It was a lovely day heading over Tioga Pass to Western Nevada to do our Site Steward duties
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We set up camp up a canyon in the middle of nowhere.
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The weather turns a little iffy. We were there with Trails West to help locate one of the immigrant trails over the Sierra's
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ReneeG
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Great pics Reasley! Thanks for sharing.
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Reasley, I had never heard of the BLM Site Stewardship program till I saw your post and did a little googling. This is worth looking into -- thanks for the tip!
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reasley
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profdant139 wrote:Reasley, I had never heard of the BLM Site Stewardship program till I saw your post and did a little googling. This is worth looking into -- thanks for the tip!
The program we are involved in is the Nevada Site Stewards. We work with Forest Service and BLM archaeologists to help protect and preserve archaeological and historic sites. It's mostly a matter of visiting, photographing and reporting changes (we did however, catch a looter at one site)
Both California and Nevada have the program, although I 'm sure other states do as well
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