Recent content by Eric Neal

I'll put this worthwhile event on my calendar and plan to be there. Might recommend that some folks, maybe not everyone, bring a shovel along to clean up the gross stuff like poop piles, baby diapers, and ass wipes that seem to be all to common just inside the tree line or in bushes around...

Hey Eric, there "may" be bears in the area but typically at improved campgrounds like you've selected you'll almost always know if they are heading to your site by listening to other campers banging pots and pans to scare them off from their site. Seems sort of odd but it is a reality, bears...

Thanks for the heads up! I've been out ot the loop and off the trails for quite sometime so I think I'll join you guys - and who doesn't like Mellow Mushroom pizza and cerveza fria !???

Eric, Stockbridge, GA 2002 Ford Ranger xlt 4x4 Yakima RTT

Hi Gary, hope you and family doing well in the "SIP" mode we're all in now. We are so very fortunate to live in N. GA and the surrounding Appalachian Mtn. area. Great FS roads to explore and camp - but not sure I'd call it "essential travel activity" at this moment in time. I'm itching to...

Hey Michael, good looking gx470! I have one in green with green tinted headlight lenses as well - bought used and very happy with it myself. It isn't our primary rig however. I typically run with wife and our rescue dog in the Ranger with roof-top tent rig seen in my pic. Glad to see...

being retired I find weekday trips are an excellent avoidance technique - most times - for excessive human BS, as long as it isn't a weekday bracketed by a holiday weekend. Moak and I have shared our opinions and agreed on this idea before... and amazingly enough we enjoy the solitude so much...

Hottest and most humid time of the year for most of Georgia (late August) but being up in the mountains will help in the evenings. If you'd like to - Shoot me a note when you're a few days before leaving your home. I'll see if I and maybe my wife can break free for a few days to accompany you...

Wildflower searching and identification, birding, butterfly sighting/identification. Finding and following game trails as well as tracking along trails and stream sides - unless bear prints become evident and as mentioned earlier fungus (mushrooms and moss). Since much of what I do is solo...

There are dozens upon dozens of campsites available but unless you use one of the "developed" campgrounds indicated on the GA Traverse website you'll fund multiple-vehicle (group) camping a little harder to find. Not impossible just requires more patience, scouting, and planning to set up...

Just an opinion here - take the tools YOU need, not what everyone else might need. Specifically I'm thinking your list includes both SAE and Metric... go with the design/manufacture of your rig and cut that weight, space, and "management of stuff" out of your chores.

AZ Wandering Bear, sincere thanks sent to you for turning me on to Everett Ruess. I've never really enjoyed poetry - okay well a few pieces but very limited. Prob due more to my lack of effort, etc. BUT... after your remarks I checked out ER's website and scanned his poetry. Then I had to...

I use a Yakima bedrock and cross bar set up which keeps the Yakima RTT just below the roof line of my truck (02 Ranger 4x4). I have a three bin (Plano) set up. 2 medium (kitchen, pantry) and one longer one for general camp stuff plus a 7 gal water can and a 5+ gal fuel can with room for some...

I typically go as a "solo vehicle" which typically includes my bride and our dog - but frequently it's just me and my kit. It's by choice. I have gone with groups on a few occasions (7-10 other vehicles) and found it less than delightful since I typically end up having to watch the vehicle in...

Wife left town for a few days so I grabbed the dog, travel kit (bins) and headed out with no particular plan or route. With so many previous trips on the GA Traverse some divided into various segments as day-trips or as overnighters over the years is remains a very nice way to spend a day or...