Recent content by RedRob

One hears many unsupported claims about bear deterrence, so I cannot endorse this from experience, but spraying to door with PineSol is supposed to throw bears off the scent. I can tell you my experience is in line with those who say that bears are rarely a problem outside campgrounds. I have...

Works well for me.

Clarifying - March 19-22 unlikely?

Thanks for your reply.

Hoping to be in that area in early December. Anyone have relatively current info on the condition of Swansea Grade? Last time is was there was a couple of years ago, and it was getting sketchy. TY

I missed this. You know I’ll be there.

Ham has such an upside, and I feel like more and more people use it. I have an eight watt BaoFeng attached to an external antenna that was pretty inexpensive and works quite well.

Sorry for your troubles. I’m interested in the Roam boxes. Could you please tell me the sizes and prices? Thanks

I probably should have searched first, but hey, let’s jump right into a question. I love my 4x4 guy, but he really is a Jeep guy. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But I’m looking for a recommendation of a Tacoma shop in the SF Bay Area, Sacramento, or Central Valley. Who can you...

Del, I don’t know what happened, but I tried a few more times and I’m in. It must have just been my own idiocy. No real surprise there. Thanks

Tried again and it said there was already an account but it won’t let me log in.

Don’t know what’s going wrong. I fill out the form and it just says we were unable to create a login. No idea if I’m screwing it up or it’s on their end.

I’m sorry to say but I’m going to bail. I really like DV but I’ve been there a lot and I’ve especially been to the places that are still available. I’m sorry to miss out on traveling with new people but I hope I get to meet you another time. ☹️

I’m on my way!

It looks like the current plan involves jumping off from Trona first thing November 3? Are we thinking that we’ll meet up and camp together November 2? Trona is a long way from damn nearly everywhere.