2020 Camping thread

[Brent.ff]

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You can always get a wood permit and go for a rip up the FTR towards nordegg until you find some fall.

Honestly, i'd do this in a minute if i had a chainsaw.. real question is if i'd make my money back on the saw

[pheoxs]

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Honestly, i'd do this in a minute if i had a chainsaw.. real question is if i'd make my money back on the saw

130$ for 10 bags of wood vs 200-250$ for a chainsaw, plus gas, plus your time, plus maintenance.

Long term it'd be worth it I guess, 2 year payback basically if you burn 10 bags a year and have space to store the wood.

[AndyL]

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130$ for 10 bags of wood vs 200-250$ for a chainsaw, plus gas, plus your time, plus maintenance.

Long term it'd be worth it I guess, 2 year payback basically if you burn 10 bags a year and have space to store the wood.

100$ refurbished poulan pro from princess auto...

We used to swear by these around here...

[killramos]

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130$ for 10 bags of wood vs 200-250$ for a chainsaw, plus gas, plus your time, plus maintenance.

Long term it'd be worth it I guess, 2 year payback basically if you burn 10 bags a year and have space to store the wood.

You can get a lot more than 10 bags of wood in one go with a wood permit.

Camping you are burning 1-2 bags a day probably. It’s pretty easy to go through a ton of wood if you have fires regularly.

[ExtraSlow]

If you enjoy spending a full day and have room to store it. Cutting your own makes sense. But if storage is a problem, or you don't have a free day, the bags are an okay deal and excellent convenience.

[pheoxs]

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You can get a lot more than 10 bags of wood in one go with a wood permit.

Camping you are burning 1-2 bags a day probably. It’s pretty easy to go through a ton of wood if you have fires regularly.

If you had a back yard firepit then its a no brainer. But if its 2-3 camping trips a year ... not sure it'd be worth it mostly just from a time aspect. Would be most a day to go drive out, cut, fill the truck, stack at home, etc to save the 130$ to buy it.

[speedog]

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If you had a back yard firepit then its a no brainer. But if its 2-3 camping trips a year ... not sure it'd be worth it mostly just from a time aspect. Would be most a day to go drive out, cut, fill the truck, stack at home, etc to save the 130$ to buy it.

Construction cutoffs into our backyard firepit - pine, spruce, oak, maple. Also hardwood from our own and neighbor's yards, lilac, apple, mountain ash and even sometimes birch.

[Brent.ff]

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130$ for 10 bags of wood vs 200-250$ for a chainsaw, plus gas, plus your time, plus maintenance.

Long term it'd be worth it I guess, 2 year payback basically if you burn 10 bags a year and have space to store the wood.

i burnt 4 bags last weekend? and have trips booked every weekend till sept long.. i need a saw. I used to just go around to the kijiji 'free wood' things but theres a lot less old trees in airdrie then deer ridge

[pheoxs]

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i burnt 4 bags last weekend? and have trips booked every weekend till sept long.. i need a saw. I used to just go around to the kijiji 'free wood' things but theres a lot less old trees in airdrie then deer ridge

Jealous. I wish I booked more when things opened up. Now most of the weekends I wanna go only the shit sites are left.

[ExtraSlow]

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i have trips booked every weekend till sept long.

Niiiice. That's a lot of trips.

[J-D]

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Just a heads up that the Transcanada around Golden is reportedly going to be closed for up to 15 weeks in Summer this year.

I cant find any details of dates for this closure but its really going to throw a wrench in my travel plans - highway 3 is quite slow.

This is our travel plan for our US trip:

Date Day Where Distance From Previous Stop
7/3/2020 Friday Kelowna or Nelson 7/8
7/4/2020 Saturday Vancouver 4/8
7/5/2020 Sunday Vancouver -
7/6/2020 Monday Vancouver -
7/7/2020 Tuesday Vancouver -
7/8/2020 Wednesday Seattle 2.5
7/9/2020 Thursday Seattle -
7/10/2020 Friday Nehalem 4
7/11/2020 Saturday Nehalem 4
7/12/2020 Sunday Jedediah Smith 7
7/13/2020 Monday Jedediah Smith -
7/14/2020 Tuesday San Fran 7
7/15/2020 Wednesday San Fran -
7/16/2020 Thursday San Fran -
7/17/2020 Friday San Fran -
7/18/2020 Saturday somewhere to portland 5
7/19/2020 Sunday Portland 5
7/20/2020 Monday Portland -
7/21/2020 Tuesday Spokane 5.5
7/22/2020 Wednesday spokane -
7/23/2020 Thursday Calgary ?

Alot of driving but we are also planning on staying 2+ nights at all but one stop so that we can actually do things.

Quick google came up with this:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/k...fic-management

Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 4 is a construction project that will upgrade 4.8 km of Highway 1 east of Golden, B.C. We’ll provide some more info on the project further down, but first, here's the important stuff:

• Work on the Highway will start in fall 2020

• There will be NO stoppages, delays or closures related to this project in summer 2020

• There will be NO daytime stoppages, delays or closures in summer 2021, 2022 or 2023 either

• It is from May 15th - September 15th that there will be no daytime stoppages or closures. They know TransCanada Highway 1 is far too busy to have delays during this time.

• Any required closures will occur in the middle of the night, or in the off seasons (early spring and late fall)

[Brent.ff]

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Niiiice. That's a lot of trips.

burnt all my vacation in Jan/Feb for going to NZ, so pushing hard for weekends.. see how many actually pan out. Already at 4 weekends, so pretty stoked. Twin Valley Reservoir, Gull Lake, Lundbreck Falls, Lower Lake

[nzwasp]

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Quick google came up with this:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/k...fic-management

Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 4 is a construction project that will upgrade 4.8 km of Highway 1 east of Golden, B.C. We’ll provide some more info on the project further down, but first, here's the important stuff:

• Work on the Highway will start in fall 2020

• There will be NO stoppages, delays or closures related to this project in summer 2020

• There will be NO daytime stoppages, delays or closures in summer 2021, 2022 or 2023 either

• It is from May 15th - September 15th that there will be no daytime stoppages or closures. They know TransCanada Highway 1 is far too busy to have delays during this time.

• Any required closures will occur in the middle of the night, or in the off seasons (early spring and late fall)

We canned this plan because the border was closed

[Brent.ff]

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If any of you ever drive down west of 22x about 1 km before the Bragg Creek turn off, there is a red shed on the side of the road marked “free firewood”, last two weekends that I went by it, it was full. Not sure what kind of wood but it’s free. I’ll try to take pic next time I go by.

Was out there biking and went looking for it... couldn’t find!

[ExtraSlow]

Google map pin would be helpful if this is a real thing.

[Tik-Tok]

Its the one playing banjo music, and the "free wood" is around back.

[Clever]

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Was out there biking and went looking for it... couldn’t find!

My bad, I meant 10km before the Bragg Creek turn off, I know its past Priddis for sure, I will see if I can find it on street view after work. I'm driving down that way this weekend and I will take pics.

[Brent.ff]

ha, crap, definitely didnt go that far!

[Clever]

Found it over lunch, again not sure how often they have wood, but where the bins are in the pic is where they stack them.

[Brent.ff]

Anyone want a last minute spot at chinook? buddy cant make it. same cost as booking, no upcharge. Check in tonight, check out sunday. $64.