mortonm
Expedition Leader
This past weekend my brother and I headed out for a weekend of camping relaxation, and most importantly a shake-down trip. We are head into Pennsylvania mountains for 7 days the first week of September.
Our grandfather had a farm outside of Campbellford, Ontario, Canada. When he passed away 10 year ago, most of it was sold off including the farmhouse and the barns etc, but we kept a tract of land just a few miles down the road. It was my great-grand fathers. It consists of a few fields and some wooded areas, part of it was used as a gravel pit in the 50s and 60s but has long since grown over.
I recently lifted my Xterra about an inch, with some extra load holding capacity, so this was a chance for us to take a trip a few hours down the freeway and test how it would hold all our gear for the trip on and off-road. We didn't get much off-roading done, just some field driving but there are a couple of steep hills and a little bit of off camber track back into the property.
We headed out mid day Friday and grabbed some provisions and set-up our tents. we were graced with a beautiful sunset over the hills.
Arrived on site, tested out the new shovel mount for the drive, held up great. A couple of u-bolts and a two electrical grounding clamps, that thing wont come off.
Here are a couple pictures of the track back in there.
Here are a couple of beautiful horses on the property just the other side of the lane-way on the way in
Here is my brothers dog, he is a german shepherd/aussie shepherd mix
As we were cooking dinner (gourmet weiners and beans :ylsmoke
a nice float plane came in over head, there are a lot of lakes in this part of Ontario.
Nice sunset
The next morning we woke up and headed out to the Campbellford fair, they had a little 4x4 course setup with a few local trucks, jeeps and buggys brought in. Show lasted about 2 hours, they had a balance beam, RTI ramp, some rocks, a culvert obstacle and two mud pits. I forgot to take too many pictures but I did get a couple of a sweet old willys on 44s and a jeep buggy demonstrated what happens when you dont listen to the pucker factor.
It was really nice, too bad I didnt get any shots before it hit the mud pit.
Our grandfather had a farm outside of Campbellford, Ontario, Canada. When he passed away 10 year ago, most of it was sold off including the farmhouse and the barns etc, but we kept a tract of land just a few miles down the road. It was my great-grand fathers. It consists of a few fields and some wooded areas, part of it was used as a gravel pit in the 50s and 60s but has long since grown over.
I recently lifted my Xterra about an inch, with some extra load holding capacity, so this was a chance for us to take a trip a few hours down the freeway and test how it would hold all our gear for the trip on and off-road. We didn't get much off-roading done, just some field driving but there are a couple of steep hills and a little bit of off camber track back into the property.
We headed out mid day Friday and grabbed some provisions and set-up our tents. we were graced with a beautiful sunset over the hills.
Arrived on site, tested out the new shovel mount for the drive, held up great. A couple of u-bolts and a two electrical grounding clamps, that thing wont come off.
Here are a couple pictures of the track back in there.
Here are a couple of beautiful horses on the property just the other side of the lane-way on the way in
Here is my brothers dog, he is a german shepherd/aussie shepherd mix
As we were cooking dinner (gourmet weiners and beans :ylsmoke
a nice float plane came in over head, there are a lot of lakes in this part of Ontario.
Nice sunset
The next morning we woke up and headed out to the Campbellford fair, they had a little 4x4 course setup with a few local trucks, jeeps and buggys brought in. Show lasted about 2 hours, they had a balance beam, RTI ramp, some rocks, a culvert obstacle and two mud pits. I forgot to take too many pictures but I did get a couple of a sweet old willys on 44s and a jeep buggy demonstrated what happens when you dont listen to the pucker factor.
It was really nice, too bad I didnt get any shots before it hit the mud pit.
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