Just a camping guy

I decided it was time to update my index blog so most if not all of my trips are on one page. Hope you enjoy.


Well I decided to make an index of my trips and I hope it works. I will try to update it every few weeks. Thanks again to all of you who have been keeping up and to the new people.

Philbrook Lake 08/26/07

Fishing in the Bay 08/20/07

Milsap Bar 08/19/07

Millsap Bar 08/11/07

Bowman Lake 08/05/07

Slickrock 07/29/07

Moore Creek 07/22/07

Slickrock 07/15/07 videos

Slickrock 07/15/07

Lake Alpine 07/08/07

Boulder Flat 07/01/07

Beardsley 06/17/07

Beardsley 06/10/07

Salt Springs 06/03/07

Salt Springs 05/28/07

Bowman Lake 05/20/07

More Barney Riley

Barney Riley Video 05/13/07

Barney Riley 05/13/07

South Cow Mountain 04/22/07

Henry Coe State Park 04/15/07

Lake Chabot 04/08/07

Henry Coe State Park 04/01/07

Red Mountain 03/25/07

St Patricks Day 03/18/07

Prewitt Ridge 03/11/07

More from Mattole

Mattole Beach 03/04/07

Mendocino NF 02/25/07

Stoneyford 02/19/07

Knoxville Rec Area 02/11/07

Hobo Gulch 02/04/07

Grant county Park 01/28/07

Samuel Taylor Park 01/21/07

Happy Campers 01/14/07

Manchester State Park 01/07/07

Manchester State Park 01/01/07

Brannan Island and Xmas 12/25/06

Brannan Island and my Aunt's house 12/17/06

Gualala Point 12/03/06

Blue Oak 11/26/06

Blue Oak 11/19/06

Eldorado National Forest wk 2 11/12/06

Best of Landscapes and other things

Best of Animal Life

Eldorado National Forest 11/05/06

Best of Plants

Woodchuck Flat wk 2 10/29/06

Woodchuck Flat 10/22/06

Talbot Campground wk 2 10/15/06

Talbot Campground 10/08/06

Bowman Lake 10/01/06

Gualala Point 09/24/06

Henry Coe State Park 09/17/06

Bowman Lake 09/10/06

Bowman Lake 09/04/06

Grouse Ridge wk 2 08/27/06

Grouse Ridge 08/20/06

Bowman Lake wk 2 08/13/06

Bowman Lake 08/06/06

Another Weekend in the Mountains 07/30/06

High Sierra wk 2 07/23/06

High Sierra 07/16/06

Lake Amador 07/09/06

UC Botanical Garden 07/02/06

Another walk around the hood 07/01/06

A walk around the neighborhood 06/25/06

Stoneyford 06/18/06

Lake Sonoma 06/11/06

Shawn's graduation 06/08/06

Board's Crossing 06/04/06

The Damon get together 05/31/06

Stoneyford 05/28/06

Lake Camache 05/21/06

Hollister Hills 05/14/06

A Sunday drive 05/07/06

Turlock SRA 04/30/06

Lake Sonoma 04/22/06

Blue Oak 04/09/06

Hollister Hills 04/02/06

Death Valley 03/26/06

Gualala Point 03/19/06

Henry Coe State Park 03/12/06

Lundborg Landing 03/05/06

Grant County Park 02/26/06

Grant Cpounty Park 02/19/06

Samuel Taylor Park 02/11/06

Lake Chabot 02/05/06

Snow Camping 01/28/06



Big Sur 01/15/06

New Year New Tent 01/08/06

Lake Success 12/27/05

Xmas 2005

PJ's Party 12/18/05

Aunt's Annual Xmas Party 12/17/05

Las Padres 12/10/05

My attempt at camping this weekend 12/04/05

Camping 11/26/05

Thanksgiving 2005

Black Butte 11/20/05

Usal Beach 11/13/05

New Hogan 11/06/05

Auburn 10/30/05

Auburn 10/23/05

Pipi 10/16/05

Turlock 09/29/05

Hope everyone enjoys it.

Labels: 4x4, camping, mountains, outdoors

I went to a place called Philbrook Lake this weekend. It is just north of Paradise. The place looked pretty nice but the water was way down. I am going to write PG&E and American Land and Leisure about what happened and will include their replies if I get them.

The campground appears to split into an upper and lower campground. I pulled in the upper and saw a nice stack of firewood and decided on my spot. I went up to entrance to get my fee envelope and the vault said not to deposit anything into it and that the camp host would stop by and pick it up. Having been at some campgrounds where the hosts were elderly it made sense.

Right up from me 2 spots were marked off with one piece of yellow caution tape. After being here for a few hours and not seeing a camp host, this guy drives up and through the tape. His unleashed dog hops out the back. At first I am thinking it is some local who taped off the spots. He then pulls out a chain saw and I pull out my camera. He didn't have a front plate so I walked up by him and shot a picture of his plate from the back. He asked me what I was doing and I told him. He said he worked for the camp host, then that his dad was the camp host. I said well then it shouldn't be a problem. The guy freaks out saying he is going to call the sheriff and drives off in his truck.

I go back to making toothpicks to start the fire and this guy comes racing back up with two other guys. One could have been his father. At first I thought they were going to jump me but I had the hatchet in my hand and they thought the better of it. The older starts ranting about how PG&E pays him to cut the wood and do I want names of people with PG&E. He then shouts that it is none of my f'ing business or concern what goes on in the campground.

I am trying to tell the guy if that is the case then it isn't a problem. I also tried to tell him that I have seen too many people do resource damage before and taking pictures of it will usually cause it to stop. He then told the younger one to go back to what he was doing. I think he was either drunk or stoned. He went back over to the site and spent about 5 minutes using the chainsaw. I don't think the guy was the camp host.

What I was expecting and got for a reply was like I was doing something wrong. I was expecting a reply from the younger guy something like this: "I am working for the camp host and will have him stop by your site." From the older guy/dad I was expecting something like: "Thanks for your concern but he is working for me."

I am curious as to how other folks would have handled this situation. Tell me how you would have done it differently.

What makes me think that this guy isn't the camp host is that no one came by to pick up my fees. I was the only person in the upper campground the whole weekend so I really didn't have a chance to chat with the other folks staying in the lower one.

Well that was Friday afternoon.

I was really wore out this weekend. I am not sure why so I spent most of my time sleeping and stoking the fire. I tried to take some pictures and will have to get some of the sunset over those trees.

Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Thanks again for stopping by.

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Labels: 4x4, camping, mountains, outdoors

I decided to go out fishing on Monday. They still don't like my hooks or something. It was more to kill some time. Since I wasn't able to land any fish I took some pictures of the stuff I saw.

Hope you enjoy the pictures. I will have my camping one up on Sunday.

Thanks again for stopping by.

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Labels: fishing, outdoors