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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2018 - 02:55pm PT
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Rich, We thought of you while in the Tetons and the needles.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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Sports climbing at Pass Lake Ontario today.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2018 - 05:58pm PT
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Sports climbing at Pass Lake Ontario a fee days ago it was steep. Yesterday multi pitch spurt at annother really clean lake
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2018 - 05:43pm PT
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In a bit of a state of shock that it is all over. we are home safe. the astro van did us well. 199,507 miles on the odometer and still humming along :) Sunset on lake Superior.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Big congrats on one hellava road trip! It was great to meet & interact with you folks at COR. We'll hope to see you again.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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It is never over.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2018 - 06:38pm PT
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Thanks Fritz. awesome meeting you and the gang. Hope to be able to do it again!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2018 - 07:25pm PT
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First hot shower since june 11th....
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2018 - 07:39pm PT
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Go longer in a modern high top van with more storeage that would allow bringing more gear for different objectives. Real Mtn boots and camping gear for winds etc. Maybe even a full size guitar and definatly a solar powered fridge. In the Astro we were super conscious of space. we did not bring mtn boots and did the snow climbs in approach shoes which certainly worked but also limited what we tackled. not having camping gear ruled out the winds and places in Idaho that were on the radar. even takeing a shot at the Grand was a no go without a sleeping bag and pad as I have accepted that I will not be strong enough to do it CTC. longer trip would have included glacier, banf, jasper etc...
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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This makes me happy
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John M
climber
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One of my favorite threads of the summer.
Have you considered a storage box for the top of the van? Or one that you attach to a hitch?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2018 - 08:39pm PT
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The Astro has a box on the roof. It is awesome. Never would use the rear hitch box. Check out our kitchen set up. Also rear hitch box totally blows for jeeping.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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It’s like this thread is a week old or something, but it’s from June 10.
Yea, minivan is great for 1 person, or short focused trips for 2. A 144 Sprinter, IMO, as large as it is, if it’s been fitted out with sleeping kitchen and storage - is about right for 2 + a few activities worth of gear for a long haul trip. 3 or more or if you’re a jack of like 4 different gear intensive sports, probably a 170 or larger.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2018 - 05:33am PT
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Worried that the longer sprinter would be a limiting factor in getting in to camp sites. We just finished 7.5 weeks without a single payed campsite or stay at Wal-Mart. Not even a truck stop. Of course we did go through canada to escape the eastern US. Pretty tough getting from vt to western Minnesota without either paying for a site or hitting wall Mart or a truck stop
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2018 - 06:19am PT
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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A positively delightful thread!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2018 - 07:01am PT
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already miss seeing these fuzz butts in the morning
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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I can't reconcile in my mind whether those things are nice or evil.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Goats are all good man... all good. Anything that can eat poison ivy is good.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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A larger van gives far more stealth and bandit camping options because you can close them up. A minivan is generally open and exposed.
As for offroad exploring, I can see the attraction if you're from the E coast. However, living here, I got a motorcycle some years back and basically saw every last road I'll ever want to see anywhere in the region in just a few short years. I'm totally over it. I lost fitness with every mile sitting on my butt. I don't need to go bumping back there to camp either - too slow, too destructive to both vehicle and nature, takes too much time away from other activities. YMMV, everyone has their thing.
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