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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 15, 2023, 11:04:42 AM »It does. Too bad you had to snuff it. I've experienced them coming at me too. I get a long stick to pick them up and fling them away from my area. They're surprisingly easy to pick up. I was more concerned about the crowds when I was planning on camping near Stonyford, which is on the border of A zone. There were only a few spots I wanted to camp at there and I didn't want to drive all the way out there and not get one of those spots. I only saw a few other cars up above Hull Mountain the whole time. Wasn't worried about my fire getting out of hand since it was in the middle of a gravelly area and it wasn't very windy. I also dug out the firepit really good and beefed up the sides of it. I have a fire extinguisher within easy reach in the back of the Runner, too. 18
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 11:51:43 PM »
I don't have the camera for that....yet. I think a chainsaw and an Insta 360 X3 are in my immediate future. 19
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: Lost Coast - 8/13/23« on: August 14, 2023, 11:43:22 PM »
Gorgeous verms!
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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:51:55 PM »
Google Earth view from camp.
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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:46:01 PM »22
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:44:29 PM »
BTW - I was up until almost 3AM and only saw like 4 or 5 meteors.
Here's a few more shots of Lake Pilsbury on my way home. 23
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:41:01 PM »
My site the next morning.
This spot would be perfect for a Wheel N Chill, although I imagine it gets pretty windy up there sometimes. It was beautiful the whole time I was up there. It was 100 degrees in the evening, but up where I was it was 70 something all night with a nice breeze. Hull Mountain in the back of the 2nd pic. 24
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:36:17 PM »
Crazy ass snake.
Here it is the next morning. Beautiful snake. I still feel bad I killed it. Size 13s for reference. 25
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:34:00 PM »
I was definitely correct to choose a spot where I could here movement because around 1:00AM I heard something to my right and there was a big ass rattlesnake coming right towards me. I'm not sure if it was just being very curious or aggressive, but it kept on following me wherever I moved to. I didn't have anything long to shoo it away so I started stomping my feet and throwing rocks at it. It would turn away for a few seconds then start following me again. It was really starting to freak me out so I threw a big rock at it and unfortunately hit it in its head. It started rolling around and wouldn't move for awhile so I finished it off with a chunk of firewood. I felt hella bad, but the fuckin' thing just wouldn't leave me alone. I've never seen any kind of snake be that persistent.
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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:27:03 PM »
My crappy view.
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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:23:22 PM »
After all of that hassle I was glad to get back to my home for the night before sunset. It was 7:30 so I set up camp and gathered as much wood that was laying around as I could and got a nice fire going.
This spot was perfect. I was honestly a little too freaked out to be camping alone in the woods, but this site was in the middle of a large gravel area so I knew I could see or hear anything trying to creep up on me. The two telescoping lights are Devos LightRangers and I'm never camping solo without them. They are telescoping rechargeable lights that you can adjust from 1, 2, or all four quadrants on. I placed one on either side of my truck on the lowest setting and they lit up the whole area and lasted all night. 28
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:17:50 PM »
I ended up making really good time and by 6:30 or so I was at the Eel River and planned on continuing on M1 to regain some elevation, but about two miles up M1 there is a huge landslide and the road was basically gone. I was bummed. I thought about heading East on Mendocino Pass Road to check out a few spots, but ultimately decided to backtrack on M1 to check out a few spots I passed.
Long story short - I ended up driving 35 miles back to the spot near Hull Mountain. Here's my track from that spot to past the Eel River and back. 29
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:04:30 PM »
As I passed Hull Mountain I found an awesome spot to camp, but it was only around 4:00PM and I was itchin' to see as much of the MBCDT as possible, so I kept heading North.
Here's some shots of Monkey Rock. There is a few small spaces to camp near the base of the rock, but there was already somebody there. 30
Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Re: (Report) Camping During Deer Season Opener?« on: August 14, 2023, 09:01:37 PM »
I ended up camping solo for the first time ever on the top of a mountain, in the middle of nowhere, and it was bad ass.
I hopped on M1 above Pilsbury to do that part of the MBCDT. I didn't have a destination in mind. I was just going to drive until I found a decent campsite to watch the meteor shower or until it got dark and I had to pull over somewhere. Here's a few shots near Hull Mountain. |