What's Out Your Back Window?

[davidmurphy02]

The view out my back window right now would be the fence at the storage yard where our trailer resides....and it looks like that will be the view for a good while longer, sadly. But when it is safe to travel again, I'll be going in style!

[h2owmn]

Nice shirt!

[Ron in BC]

Originally Posted by MyronL

Note bed is stripped.

Not ours, bed is made, trailer is packed and ready to head out for central BC on June 1st.

Spent the morning watching the local SAR team practice long lining in a nearby river canyon. Couldn't pay me enough to dangle on a long rope far below the helicopter.

Ron

[MyronL]

Wish I was you. But I agree... makes no sense to dangle on a long rope hanging down from a perfectly good helicopter.

[gbaglo]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

Not ours, bed is made, trailer is packed and ready to head out for central BC on June 1st.
Ron

Provincial parks won't be open for camping until at least June 21.

[Dave Walter]

Originally Posted by gbaglo

Provincial parks won't be open for camping until at least June 21.

I think that your information may be out of date. Looks to me as if some parks are opening sooner than that.

COVID-19 - BC Parks - Province of British Columbia

[Ron in BC]

Nope, day use only. How great is that? BC has handled the crisis well but the parks and recreation sites (600 plus, many a long way from anyone) in a strange way. It seems unrealistic to say folks can use them in the daytime but not stay overnight. We'll be heading out June 1st. If we have to leave a recreation site at dinner time and spend the night down the road that's what we'll do. But many of the recreation sites are free and there's no operator on site so maybe we'll get lucky.

Ron

[cpaharley2008]

Originally Posted by davidmurphy02

The view out my back window right now would be the fence at the storage yard where our trailer resides....and it looks like that will be the view for a good while longer, sadly. But when it is safe to travel again, I'll be going in style!

Hey David,
I have 4 Escape buttons with those on them, I could just pin them onto my t-shirt and have the same look.............not!

[MyronL]

On a lighter note...

[mimie]

Shakedown camping-on-my-own/no sidekicks trip! (Well, if one doesn't count the two corgis as sidekicks....)

This is a side view, and not actually, literally, from my window. Hey, I'll take it!

And - by happy chance - caught an extra "subject" in the photo, which I only spied a minute later (yes, AFTER taking the pic!), when I saw it and its mate swimming by. They vanished underwater, and that's all I got to see. Heard them calling, a couple of minutes later. Classic, and magic, all in one...

[Bobbie54]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

Nope, day use only. How great is that? BC has handled the crisis well but the parks and recreation sites (600 plus, many a long way from anyone) in a strange way. It seems unrealistic to say folks can use them in the daytime but not stay overnight. We'll be heading out June 1st. If we have to leave a recreation site at dinner time and spend the night down the road that's what we'll do. But many of the recreation sites are free and there's no operator on site so maybe we'll get lucky.

Ron

I think the idea is to keep the number of people traveling down. But here where they can travel for the day and still get to our parks doesn't make a lot of sense.

[brightday]

Lovely, Mimi!!!

[cpaharley2008]

This was the spot for the ill fated Chocura May rally cancelled but Mimi was going anyway, glad you made it........

[yangstyle]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

Nope, day use only. How great is that? BC has handled the crisis well but the parks and recreation sites (600 plus, many a long way from anyone) in a strange way. It seems unrealistic to say folks can use them in the daytime but not stay overnight. We'll be heading out June 1st. If we have to leave a recreation site at dinner time and spend the night down the road that's what we'll do. But many of the recreation sites are free and there's no operator on site so maybe we'll get lucky.

Ron

What are recreation sites? Are they free with no services but camping allowed? Any names that would be good to check out? We probably wont be going to BC this year but do like to go, Vernon area is one of our favorites.

[Ron in BC]

Look up BC Recreation Sites.

There's over 600 of them and you could call them Provincial Parks lite.

Most are accessed by Forestry Service Roads and the cost ranges from free to about $12. Many are at a lake. They can have as little as a couple of sites to 30 or so. Some are only accessible by 4 x 4 but many are reachable with typical towing rigs.

Ron
14 days and counting

[MyronL]

I see your Loon, Mimi. Such wonderful birds. Hard to get a good shot of one out anyone's back window, for sure. Had to go digging for some I was able to capture on a hidden lake up near Emily, Minn.

[yangstyle]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

Look up BC Recreation Sites.

There's over 600 of them and you could call them Provincial Parks lite.

Most are accessed by Forestry Service Roads and the cost ranges from free to about $12. Many are at a lake. They can have as little as a couple of sites to 30 or so. Some are only accessible by 4 x 4 but many are reachable with typical towing rigs.

Ron
14 days and counting

Thanks, I'll check that out. We are OK with few or no services.

[John in Santa Cruz]

Covid vacation.

[cpaharley2008]

Nice to see that California also has the grey skies, I can not remember the last time I saw blue skies and sunshine.

[h2owmn]

It rained here (sierra foothills) half the days in January and March. Sure made the March quarantine more gloomy. April and early May were glorious. We had about half an inch yesterday which is unusual for this time of year, but we don't complain. it delays fire season, but also increases undergrowth. Darned either way.