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Hope you all are having a great Memorial Day weekend! If you are or where a veteran…. I thank you for your service and the freedoms it brought. Spending The Weekend playing radio from my old trailer at Lake Merwin in Washington state. Cheers!
Having a great weekend in La Pine, Oregon trout fishing. Weather breezy and cool with occasional rain but fishing and camping are always good. Played a bit of radio too.
I finally got a chance to try out the new rooftop tent last weekend in central OR, southeast of Bend. The tent is a Roofnest Condor XL, mounted on my trusty 1987 FJ60. The weather was perfect – crystal clear in the evening for… Continue Reading “Winter camping in Oregon”
Just got back from a great weekend with Travis W0MUD, Tim WB7TIM, and Troy KI7HML. Travis planned the trip to activate the area for Parks On The Air. Travis and Tim both had Yaesu QRP rigs (FT-817 and FT-818) with wire antennas, battery packs,… Continue Reading “Cottonwood Canyon State Park. moro, oregon”
Time to get this started…. While not the most ‘overland’ by what’s become today’s standards… This is my adventure/off road/camping/fishing/get to and from work rig. It’s a 2006 Ram TRX4. Camper is a 1990 Sunlite Eagle pop-up. She’s on her second 5.7l engine at… Continue Reading “Show us your rig! KB7RQQ’s full size Ram”
My wife and I took a trip down to the Southern Oregon coast to visit Wildlife Safari in Winston Oregon, and the Bandon Wildlife Park in Bandon, Or. I took a bunch of pictures so here is a few. Very fun trip and only… Continue Reading “Trip to Southern Oregon Wildlife Parks”
Made a trip up to the ‘Trail of Two Forests ‘a few weekends ago. Located on the south side of Mt. St. Helen’s in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest is an area where a lava flow carved a path through the old growth. It left… Continue Reading “Trail of Two Forests – Mt. St. Helen’s WA”
We were discussing drying our own foods on the talk group the other day. Found this in my old Boy Scout Field Book…. of all places. Would likely be much more energy efficient to use an actual food dryer but it does talk about… Continue Reading “Dehydrate food in your oven.”