After several weeks of planning finally got to take the Jeep camping this weekend! It did great off road, as usual, and spent most of the week on trailer duty pulling my side by side, atv, and then coolers and wood to the camp site. Power wise, I think it does as good or better than my 2010 Wrangler did. Its a little under-braked though, in fact I got them hot pulling the side by side in on a fairly short but steep grade. Anyway, on the pictures.
A few shots of the Jeep, unhooked the trailer before the trail got too rough, my trailer is just too wide for trails.
Our camp, my buddy made it to the woods first, so easy for me most of everything was set up. Pretty impressive set up though I thought! Being the first time out in a while(most of my prior camping is done at our place at the lake, where everything stays and you are within reach of civilization) we both learned a few things for next time that we needed. A table besides the picnic table thats been at the site for years, and more lights to light the camp site edges at night. But for the most part, we had what we needed.
The atv's and side by side. The Kubota and the Grizzly are mine.
We definitely ate good!! I think you could cook a dog turd over the fire and make it taste good!
Bad shot, but this was our kitchen.
Mmmm the beef stew that came out of that pot!
One mistake we made, not enough wood, although it was really cold the first night, not so much the second night, but we still had to go cut some more. No big deal when you're on 200 acres full of timber, it wasn't hard to find a few tree's than needed trimming out of trails. We had the Kubota loaded down!
Friday night, about 2am, a dog decided to tree something just on the other side of camp. What a great way to ruin the next morning deer hunting, a dog barking for five hours, but we finally made friends with the old girl and got in contact with the owner and took her out to the main road for him.
Did get a little hunting in, although we didn't get anything. My buddy shot at two, one he just goofed and missed, the other was an impossible shot with a bow.
Random campfire photos.
This was my first time sleeping in the jeep, I had planned on sleeping in the back, but honestly, I just had too much stuff that was too unorganized, mainly from being in a hurry when I loaded the Jeep. So I ended up sleeping in the front seat. The first night, I got cold and had to crank up for about 20 minutes, the second night it was hot, well hotter than the night before and I ended up sleeping with the windows cracked. The front seat wasn't bad, I liked being able to listen to the radio all night, but my tail bone got a little sore and I had to get out and stretch a few times. Friday night I used a heating blanket my mom had that plugged into the cig lighter, that thing was awesome.
Next time I will plan better, have better storage, etc and be able to sleep in the back if I decide too. I may try the passenger seat too, might be a little more room over there without the wheel.
Anyway, it was a great trip! Hope you enjoy the pics!
