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When are you going to join me on one of these trips?

My wife is from MD and every tine we go back I am amazed at the year roiund greenery. It is beautiful back there!!

It’s beautiful country but you have to keep your eyes peeled that’s for sure

Thanks for the kind words!!! Im not much of a you-tuber but just wanted to share what I learned.

Heck ya!! That too!!

I love Blue Lakes, been going back to Medow Lake since i was a kid. That was the Loope Canyon access off of 89. That was an AR, It is a HK 416 BUT..... Chambered in .22LR supper fun!!

That does not surprise me one bit. I was actually doing some exploring and shooting around the old Quarry at C9 today. Im trying to find a place to get targets out to 1000 yards.

@@OFFTHEBEATENPATH1977 Such a great place to shoot. 1000 yds thats some serious distance; rifle?. Are you able to get your truck down in the quarry? I can get my bike in through a tiny rock opening near the top of the quarry, but it's a little sketch sneaking in that way,

@@OneTakeSunday yep 6,5 Creedmoor is the cartridge we shoot at that range. There is a way in on the far west side and a spot that your bike could get in easy on the east side of the “parking” area.

You clearly know the area well!! Nice work!! I have not been all the way up to Mount Knight, its on the short list for sure. I have been laying out routes along "Hell's Half Acre". I would like to go the entire stretch between hwy 4 and hwy 108. So much to explore!! I have gotton a bit motr cautios with where i take the "Dingo" so now i prefer to scoute the routes first them make a "trip out of it" once i know i can get the DIngo in and out.

​@@OFFTHEBEATENPATH1977 Nice! How are you planning to get to Hell's Half Acre? I hear that on hwy 4 to 108!!! SO much awesomeness back there. My last trip I tried to go to Mt. Knight, and eventually up to Beardsley Lake or Lyons Reservoir, but I got caught at about a mile in on Forest rt 4N04. I think I would have been fine if I was riding with others, but I got caught on a steep hill and took me an hour to lift up my 600lb 1250gs adventure bike (long story, usually its not that big of deal to lift), so tucked my tail in and turned around. With my 1250gs, and your dingo, it sounds like we could be looking for similar type dirt roads. If you haven't done Italian Bar rd, highly reccomaend it. My favorite road to ride out there as of now!

@@OneTakeSunday the route i have laid out now goes from Beardsley to Boards crossing near Arnold. The route im looking at is actually along 5N02 for most of it. That will be a trip for next summer for sure. When you do Italian Bar do you take that all the way up to Rose Creak? Have you gone towards Elliots Cabin?

​@@OFFTHEBEATENPATH1977I have been eying 5N02 too up to Skull Creek Ranger Station and Beardsley as well! My favorite way to get to Italian Bar/Italian Bar road is by going the same way you came into the Rose Creek Bridge and then basically going over the hill. It does get a tad rocky there, but nothing that's too crazy. Ive also have entered, and exited Italian Bar Rd on the Columbia side, and last time I did Italian Bar, I headed in the Columbia side, up to Jupiter Rd, back to Italian Bar rd, and basically out to 108 to before Mi-Wuk Village. Andy's Mountain Restaurant at Mi-Wuk is effin incredible too. I really want to try 4N04 again, but its was just a little too much to do on my big bike by myself; hoping to get out there with my motorcycle camping group though.

We mainly use nymph flies under a steelhead "float" set up. We did have luck with spinners as well. We retrofit our lures with single barbless hooks, check the regs im pretty sure thats the requirement. We went downriver.

Thanks Blake!! I talk a little bit about the history of the base trailer in this video. th-cam.com/video/u7r5fhse-yo/w-d-xo.html

Bay Area Metal Fabrication (BAMF) makes the trailer frame and box. I bought the trailer and added the water, electric, gear box, rack and tent/shower. I also ended up upgrading the suspension. I have some earlier videos showing the build. Thanks for the kind words!!

What suspension did you use? Love the videos and your vibe. Old school.

@@dfwoverland Thansk so much!! I used the Timbren 3500HD. I have a video on that project as well. it took a bit of customizing to go from the timbren 2500 to 3500

@@OFFTHEBEATENPATH1977 thanks. You comfortable that the 3500 timbren can handle the weight-tent water etc? Or would you have gone higher? Whats the dry weight of your rig?

@@dfwoverland Yes, i think that is more than enough, The trailer weight wet (20 gal water, Full propane tank, 5 gal of gas and a full ice chest) is 2700#. The Tongue weight is 320#.

I used the “Tall” annex. The underside of the RTT is about 6’. It curls the bottom of the annex up a tad bit but not much. But it gives me a bit of head room to walk under the RTT. I am 5’ 10”.

Thanks so much!! I am almost done with a couple upgrades I decided to do after my first trip. New water tanks and new Suspention. I will have a video out on those projects soon.

The box is 4’x7’ and the entire trailer, including the tongue is 7’x12’.

Thanks Chris!! This was 1/29-30/22. I am happy to share this awesome location, but i ask for one small thing in return. If you email me a confirmation of a donation of ANY size to Trout Unlimited i will send you the info on this trip. My email address is jjgibson1977@gmail.com you can donate at gifts.tu.org/donate2?ms=MWL-WFO-WUNREST-GIWTG&_ga=2.203040402.2001380311.1645832372-143143161.1645832372

That only works when that friend comes with me...... Lets go!!

Thats great!!! Its my pleasure!!

Right now i have an old school awning over the shower side of the Dingo Trailer. The 270 requires 3 anchor points and i only have 2. I do plan to add a 3rd rail in the future and put the 270 on down the road. that thing is bad ass!!

@@OFFTHEBEATENPATH1977 oh ok I didn't know it required 3 anchor points. I'm kinda in the same boat no trailer but got my tacoma. Instead of the 270 I added the 23zero bushman awning with an awning room for the time being. Appreciate the response just found your channel yesterday and catching up on the videos.

@@the_bearded_firefighter5160 More to come. Im finishing up a series on Gaia Maps and route planning. Then ill have a video with the finished Dingo Trailer out on it’s maiden trip. Thanks for riding along!!

@@OFFTHEBEATENPATH1977 sounds good! I'll keep an eye out for those videos!!

haha if he did it would look a lot better than this.....