Inside of my truck camper (should have cleaned it more) with LineXed stove top cover

Edited February 13, 20169 yr by JAG1

@Me78569 tile is fun! I'm finishing a couple bathrooms myself 

1 hour ago, JAG1 said:

I will do that . Used to live in Oak Harbor on Whidbey island.

 

Tile job looks straight , I can't see wavy walls

 

 

 

Awesome! That's where I'm at! 

I lived there in the early 60's. I'm an old guy with worn ball joints.

Pictures from around here huh...

 

What I did was load up the ATV in the back of the truck and drove to Riggins, ID. Unloaded and fuelled up the ATV. Then rode from Riggins, ID to the top of Coldspring Mountain where the repeater is. The picture below is of the Seven Devils Mountain range which is the highest point in the area at over 9,000 feet. As you'll see it's still got some snow. The temperature up here was very cool almost cold enough to wear a light jacket. 

 

 

After travelling around on top of the ridge for about 2 hours I left and start back down to the valley floor toward Riggins. Still early in the afternoon I took off and headed toward the Salmon River Road. Here is one year later of the Teepee Springs Fire where is was completely smoked out. 

 

 

One year earlier...

 

Then the Manning Bridge project. Time to update from the old bridge to something better. So they are working on the rock face to the left of the crane trying to create a footer for the new bridge.

 

All I can say is I got fried down here. Extremely hot and got sunburnt for the day. So in one day on a ATV I've been from the freezer and back to the blazing heat. Travelled close to hundred miles on a ATV.

Is that a wooden suspension bridge in the last photo? I remember when I was a kid there were alot of wooden bridges all around on the back roads. We used to go down to Social Circle GA to see my Aunt and Uncle and all the bridges around there were wooden. I remember hearing the boards slap together when riding over them.

28 minutes ago, dripley said:

Is that a wooden suspension bridge in the last photo? I remember when I was a kid there were alot of wooden bridges all around on the back roads. We used to go down to Social Circle GA to see my Aunt and Uncle and all the bridges around there were wooden. I remember hearing the boards slap together when riding over them.

 

 

Here is a bit of history and news on the bridge...

http://magicvalley.com/news/local/fight-over-little-known-salmon-river-bridge-highlights-ccc-s/article_e1ac09fe-85e0-594e-889f-85b9a4d6ba4f.html

Interesting history on that bridge. I have to assume the county backed down and is going to take ownership since it appears the construction is under way?

9 hours ago, Mopar1973Man said:

Pictures from around here huh...

 

What I did was load up the ATV in the back of the truck and drove to Riggins, ID. Unloaded and fuelled up the ATV. Then rode from Riggins, ID to the top of Coldspring Mountain where the repeater is. The picture below is of the Seven Devils Mountain range which is the highest point in the area at over 9,000 feet. As you'll see it's still got some snow. The temperature up here was very cool almost cold enough to wear a light jacket. 

 

 

After travelling around on top of the ridge for about 2 hours I left and start back down to the valley floor toward Riggins. Still early in the afternoon I took off and headed toward the Salmon River Road. Here is one year later of the Teepee Springs Fire where is was completely smoked out. 

 

 

One year earlier...

 

Then the Manning Bridge project. Time to update from the old bridge to something better. So they are working on the rock face to the left of the crane trying to create a footer for the new bridge.

 

All I can say is I got fried down here. Extremely hot and got sunburnt for the day. So in one day on a ATV I've been from the freezer and back to the blazing heat. Travelled close to hundred miles on a ATV.

 

I'd love to come visit that area one day,

You'll have to ask JAG1 if he'll give up his parking spot in the yard... 

 

Seriously if you make it up here I can show you lots of old time history. There is old mining sites like Florence, ID and historic places all over the place out here. You can spend days just traveling back into some of the old towns. Some are still active with small population but very very remote. Most remote town in Idaho is Yellow Pine, ID. There is all kind of neat things to see.

My spot is available as long as you can clean up the beer cans from last time.

 

Visiting there there is a bit like going back in time. Sort a like the rest of the world has spun by for years.

 

Pics make me wish I did not sell my ATV so I could do the 100 with you.

1 hour ago, JAG1 said:

My spot is available as long as you can clean up the beer cans from last time.

 

I did, I threw them back in the bed of your truck remember? 

 

1 hour ago, JAG1 said:

Visiting there there is a bit like going back in time. Sort a like the rest of the world has spun by for years.

 

Time continues to creep by here like some didn't wind the watch up very well. Even MoparMom and myself are shocked at the amount of old building that are in bad condition.  Structures left to stand as a testament of time. There is secret homes I going to stop and take pictures of. It is an abandoned home but well hidden from the public. 

3 hours ago, Mopar1973Man said:

You'll have to ask JAG1 if he'll give up his parking spot in the yard... 

 

Seriously if you make it up here I can show you lots of old time history. There is old mining sites like Florence, ID and historic places all over the place out here. You can spend days just traveling back into some of the old towns. Some are still active with small population but very very remote. Most remote town in Idaho is Yellow Pine, ID. There is all kind of neat things to see.

 

The wife and I would love to do something like that. 

When you make it here I'll be more than glad to show you around. Just make sure to do it around June to July. Best time to see this state before then is typically wet and rainy also after July we go into fire season and most of the back country roads get limited or closed off.

And the folks around there are nice... treat you like family wherever you go.

 

 

 

Another morning pic..... Outside of our kit style log home we built. Just like Lincoln Logs.

Edited July 18, 20168 yr by JAG1

If I can even make it up to "Freight Landing" there is a real log cabin. Not much left the history is it was a old fir trappers cabin. This cabin gives new meaning to log cabin. Strange but true I worked with a log home company here for a summer. Assembled two homes old styled hand hued. One was in Yellow Pine, Idaho and the other was in Twin Falls, Idaho. Even those log homes are way different than a kit log home.

Yeah... hand crafted log homes are very nice. I priced them and found just the shell cost what my kit home cost completed. 3 kids in a single wide mobile was crowded and the wife is saying just do the kit and it will be fine. We were lucky enough to get the property and be able to do it.

 

 

Be nice to get a metal detector going around that old fur trappers cabin.

 

 

If there's one thing my mom is proud of its her lawn! 

That tractor is nice yard art, needs to be parked on the lawn. That would be a pretty site

1 hour ago, JAG1 said:

That tractor is nice yard art, needs to be parked on the lawn. That would be a pretty site

1939 International H! But it'll never be on the lawn.... I value my life  

Farmall H was the first tractor I drove as a kid, probably 8 or 10 years old. Thanks for the memories