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Welcome. I'm originally from over in Elk Creek. We used to go to Hungry Mother growing up and my wife and I spent our first anniversary there camping.

Rode around three counties trying to get mobile contacts in the Virginia QSO Party contest yesterday evening in the last few hours. Next time I'm going to try this earlier in the contest and hopefully have better luck. It was fun though!

Park the rig on a level surface and start loading. You want to wind up with the load spread evenly over the whole vehicle, with neither end squatting more than the other and sitting even side to side. Make sure to have somewhere between a 1/2 to whole tank of fuel to account for that weight as...

This is killing me! I'm dieing to mod a rig and sitting on this nice Xterra but not wanting to put money into it since it's for sale is such a drag. Man I hope this stuff sells quick before I go nuts...

The Monte Carlo sold pretty quick, quicker than I expected. No interest yet in the K5 or the Xterra but I'm being patient. I've got to get down and get the Camaro out of storage now and ready to sell. I've kinda slowed down shopping since I'm not getting much interest in my other vehicles. I...

Good suggestion, I actually have a Rite in the Rain notebook I carry most days along with a handkerchief in my back pocket.

Thanks for the input, but I'm not looking to buy things FOR people. I have nice knives, flashlights, ect and that's the issue. I'm looking for things to ASK for, for myself. Again, I have nice stuff, so asking for a $20 knife I'll never use doesn't make much sense. I was hoping for ideas for...

I'm afraid that's farther than I can manage for a impromptu day trip right now. Going to be too busy this weekend. Maybe next time though! I'd like to get up that way for a couple days in the future and see what's there.

Good to know! I've been going back and forth with this and have not pulled the trigger on that yet. I've been considering a large MSR pot that I could pack other things inside of in my mess box as well. I bought the 750mL one a few weeks ago to see how it works for us.

I'm still stocking up on steering parts for the GMC. Pitman arm just arrived today! Down to the tie rod ends and sleeves now. I wish I could be buying cool stuff but that has to wait till I have the rig I'm wanting to build. Soon though I hope!

What part of the GWNF are you going to be in?

Which part of the OBX were you at? I've been wanting to do some beach driving myself but have never taken the plunge to do so.

I fixed the title I think, hopefully made it sound a little less spammy.

I came upon this and it seemed relevant to our hobby. I thought you all might enjoy the read as much as I did. 12 WORST CASE SCENARIOS: WHAT TO DO RIGHT WHEN THINGS GO WRONG

We went out for a 5 hour ride, exploring the areas around our house. Found some neat places and checked out a route to add to my extension of the MSO New Castle route. In a few months, I'm going to do my end of it for a weekend trip.

Nobody "needs" another cooler, but who's counting anyways! :smiley:

I'm sure we all have to deal with this and I'm about out of ideas so I thought I'd start a thread and get some more input. My wife's family insists on exchanging names for Christmas every year. We've got a price range of $20-30USD and the last few years I've struggled to put out ideas for...

I picked up one of the 73qt variety before Christmas after my old Rubbermaid was stolen from out campsite at Uwharrie (along with a weekends worth of food and beer) on a trip in November. I've not had call to use it yet but I also picked up a lock tab and heavy cable to use with it next time so...

I've spent one night in it so far, two years ago. Been too busy to get out much but hopefully that's changing. I'm wanting to get some good use from it this year.

In the past I've used an air mattress with either a mummy bag in colder weather or a Coleman bag in warmer weather. Most of the time it's just two people using a 8 person tent so room hasn't been an issue. My tent died last year, a horrible slow death, so on the last trip it was two guys...