Texas Camp Knife Giveaway!! WINNER CHOSEN! See post #61

[waynorth]

Spectacular shots, Stonebeard!
It's great that you included a knife! Keeps the thread valid!!

 

[Bud the Weisser]

This is such a beautiful thread! I wish my family was a "camping" family...

I'm loving these pictures, makes me smile to see people enjoying the great outdoors!

 

[pertinux]

Spectacular shots, Stonebeard!
It's great that you included a knife! Keeps the thread valid!!

Oh, this thread is valid, alright! It's all in hopes of this knife:

~ P.

 

[Sonnemann]

Destined to be a great thread -- thanks for the shot at one of those monsters Charlie.

Debris shelter entrance

Friction fire

Nighttime

 

[MadMaximus]

Great thread! My camping is a bit different than most on this thread, typically a hunting camp. In WI Deer Camp is like a holiday, lots of great memories, time really flies!

A shot of this year's camp from the field, not typical late November weather. We had just a dusting of snow and it was all there and gone within an hour.


Sitting in the old stand with my trusty #71. Yeah, I know fully enclosed, I had to do it after some of the past harsh winters, they were open most of the year this season.


First season, 1999 with Dad. My uncle found this one just after goose season started this year, luckily he had two of them.


Oh and one from the summer doing stand maintenance. Lots of harsh winters have beat that stand up, will be tearing it down this summer.

 

[Bigfattyt]

Canoe camping with the Boy Scouts is always a good time.




Every time, we stop a few times through out each day to play. Whether it is football in the water, or playing on the dunes.














Canoeing and camping with the family.
I have two boys, and they are old enough to really enjoy camping. Younger boy catching frogs.

Here is us camping, and canoeing on the Yakima river. I canoed this river as a Scout growing up, and now I take them camping on it. We paddled a little up stream, and the older boy and I floated a ways down.



The younger was contend just to wade. It was COLD this early in the season!


This is camping on a friends cattle ranch. We go every year for the roundup. Branding, cutting, roping, etc.
This is the older boy (on the left, in the blue sweatshirt), holding a calf while it gets branded.




My younger son decided it was hot, and he had been in the roping and branding pen long enough. Time to strip down to underwear, play with his dinosaurs and take a nap.....


This was the roundup last year. These are my two boys. I also took 5 other older scouts (we take the scouts every year to get the experience).




Knives for the cutting.



The forum kept timing out. I will have to come back and edit more.
I'll be back to edit, and organize. Time to put the kids to bed!

 

[Maverick299]

What an awesome thread and giveaway. I love looking at camping pictures.

Here are a few from my latest "couples" trip through the Boundary Waters. When I told people I was taking my girlfriend to the boundary waters they thought I was nuts. She's a city girl after all, and I do have to admit I had my doubts our relationship would survive 6 days in a tent without running hot water or a wi-fi signal for her.........she loved it. When she started to ask me to do more trips like that I figured she was a keeper so I asked her to be my wife this last new years and we are getting married this summer. Since the boundary waters we have done Zion, Bryce, Arches, some local camping and plan to travel to Iceland for our honeymoon and do some kayaking, ice cave exploration, and volcano climbing while we are there!



Sundown in camp




No, that's not bait. That took smallest fish of the week awards.



Cooking some fresh walleye over the fire.




This guy flew into camp and stole 2 fish off our stringer.




Big fish of the week awards.




Sun Rise




Stranded on a rock..........in the rain......in the middle of a lake




One more Sun rise picture.....because why not?

 

[esnyx]

Awesome giveaway, Charlie!

I'll be camping out in the middle of the track at Sebring International Raceway this weekend for the 12 Hours of Sebring race. Not your typical campsite but I'll be sleeping in a tent. There's nothing quite like waking up in the morning to the sounds of howling race car engines and the smell of high octane race fuel!

I'll make sure to get some pictures!




EDIT: Here's a couple photos from last weekend!

Our campsite Saturday morning:

And our campsite after the monsoon that rolled through Saturday afternoon:

More carnage from the monsoon:

The knife I had in my pocket all weekend:

A severe thunderstorm rolled through on Saturday afternoon, blowing over part of our campsite and soaking the ground. Luckily we all had our rain gear ready. The winds were so bad that they had to red flag the race for over 2 hours. I didn't get any good shots of the cars, unfortunately. I put my camera away after the rain. Evan came along too and I think he has a few good ones of the cars. Hopefully he will post them here!




EDIT #2: Here's a fun shot of some friends and me at the same race a couple years ago:

Thanks for the chance at the pocket brick, Charlie! I am definitely in!!

Well, Phil and I had quite the weekend at Sebring International Raceway. As he stated above, we spent a couple nights camping out in the middle of the racetrack for the 12 hours of Sebring race. As always, it was a great time! Roaring engines for 12 hours straight, good friends, food, ad drink, and a surprise t-storm!

Here we are relaxing at the campsite:

Me with my bocote backpocket, aka #26:

Phil with his swayback rope knife, aka #27:

Here are some shots of the cars. We camped out in the middle of a hairpin turn, so we had racetrack on three sides of our camp. These pics are of the cars coming into the turn. They were pushing 150mph going into that turn. Quite the exciting race!

I'm already looking forward to next year, and I am sure Phil is too!

 

[Zemapeli]

A camelback motherlode canvas backpack in cayote brown. Makes the best daypack around. I carry my EDC gear in this and take it camping.

Here is a pipe I made out of a stick I found camping.

Fishing on the St. Joseph river. Caught some nice largemouth here.

Pet dove on my coleman lantern.
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I sketch when I go out on hikes. Here are a few I did.

There is a trail near me that I ride my bike on outside of Kalamazoo, MI. Nice place for a walk too.

Overlook Deck on the trail.

EDC gear.

 

[A.L.]

Wonderful pictures people!

Here are some I dug from last autumn. Same weekend, different locations.

Roasting some sausages with Girlfriend.

Wood was collected from ground, they were dry enough to work that day.

Our fierce guard dog, Viljo the Corgi

Pot of coffee warming up with wood gas stove

Nap time!

Thank you for the opportunity to win this absolutely mouth drooling knife!

 

[leghog]

My son and I about a month and a half ago.

My son and I at one of my favorite spots in Virginia. Bear Church Rock last summer the day before he left for a dig in Israel.

Bear scat in the Shenandoah National Park.

No one told the bear to leave no trace.

In late spring to early fall, the AT in Virginia is known as the Tunnel of Green. Last season surrounded by mountain laurel.

My wife, Charlie, and I at Bullpasture Gorge last month after visiting the Maple Sugar Festival in Monterey.

Today I'm hitting the High Bridge Trail, a Rails to Trails Project a couple of hours south of here along the Appomattox River. My one constant companion on each and every trip --- a Vic Farmer.

 

[lambertiana]

For me there is camping and there is backpacking. I go on week long backpacking trips in Sequoia/Kings Canyon every year, here is just one example of a campsite (carrying everything over high passes and through boulder fields and talus off trail for a week leads to a significant paring down of gear):




For camping, every year we go with my wife's family to a nice spot on the Mokelumne River not too far from Tahoe. Typical car camping scene there:


When I car camp, I can bring the heavier cutting gear:

 

[knarfeng]

Mokelumne River

Haven't come across that name for a very long time. My parents and I used to boat on the lower reaches of that river in the late 60's.

 

[lambertiana]

Haven't come across that name for a very long time. My parents and I used to boat on the lower reaches of that river in the late 60's.

Perhaps you are familiar with where we go - the camping areas just below Salt Springs Reservoir.

 

[knarfeng]

Uh, no. WAY South.

Near the confluence of Snodgrass Slough and the Mokelumne. Close to the Town of Walnut Grove.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Some outstanding photos - just awesome to look through.

Good luck everyone, and Charlie - thank you for bringing to life another great! and thank you for this generous giveaway! Not an entry - but having a blast looking through!

 

[RobbW]

My wife and I have four children. We took our firstborn camping when she was all of three weeks old. While the kids were young, we were able to take them camping just about every single month of the year. The kids didn't seem to mind snow and blizzard conditions nearly as much as their mom did. lol. In fact, they hoped to be snowed in just after setting up camp. It was always fun to be in a tent with them with candles, good books and games while the heavy snows came and buried us. All of our photos of those years are on film though. Here are a couple of my favorite memories:

My son made Eagle Scout. I always tried to spend the week with him at Scout camp, as well as participate as an adult leader on the longer high-adventure trips. This is him earning his wilderness survival merit badge. He had to construct a wilderness shelter, spend the night in it, and then survive a 5 gallon bucket of water being tossed on top the next morning. He studied the structure of ferns very carefully to figure which orientation would shed water the best. Not a drop came through!

Here's part of his young patrol on the section of the Appalachian Trail:

Obligatory snake pic:

Here he is with an older patrol overlooking the Hudson river valley. We camped for a week near West Point Academy, toured the Academy, took daily hikes, had a tour of the NY SWAT HQ, and had a ball the last day at a long-distance rifle range.

Here he is on a family camping trip near Queeche Vermont. He built his own frame-and-skin kayak out of some leftover lumber from our tree-house project. The skin was three mil. plastic painter tarp. Worked really well for seeing the fish underwater! Sorry for the orientation. PhotoBucket is giving me conniptions!

Here are two cousins having fun cooling off in the mud before lunch. We were following in the footsteps of John Wesley Powell on the Green River in Gray and Desolation Canyons. Spent just over a week on the river:

Was gorgeous!

A different campsite every night:

On a hike to where an early prospector have been buried:

Another time a few of us combined permits to take our self-supported, small group rowing and camping for 15 days down that wee Arizona Canyon. It was the trip of a lifetime and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Here's me at the oars, and you can catch a glimpse of what kind of food and gear it takes to camp that long on the river:

Here's another shot during the cold, early days:

Most scenic campsite in the world!

Around 800 years ago, someone abandoned this, probably in a hurry or even the victim of a raid. As far as I know, only three people know the location of this pot: the government worker who documents in-site canyon artifacts, his boat pilot, and me. The practice is to leave all artifacts intact and in site unless threatened by erosion, damage, discovery, etc. They are catalogued every few years. This is about 18" long and well concealed where it's owner cached it and never returned.

Inside:

A herd of these fellas came mighty close. Sorry for the old digital camera technology:

Lots of day hikes. This one to an ancient granary.

Scouting a cataract. Really gets your blood going in the morning:

Sometimes this happened (this was a guy on a small 14' raft. It went over several times ):

This view from another day hike. We're very high up, but you can't tell because the canyon is just so huge:

Charlie: Thanks for letting me re-live some great memories with friends and family. I'd post more, but I'm afraid I've already overshared.

 

[jmarston]

I really wish I had a higher resolution version of this photo that really captured the beauty of the sky. This was a winter camp on the island at Lake Laberge, Yukon Territory. Good friends in an old wall tent enjoying what north of 60 has to offer. This was the only image from the entire weekend unfortunately but what a weekend it was.

Lovely photos every one! I always enjoy seeing the many different environments which we live and play in. Thanks for the chance, Waynorth, and good luck to everyone!

 

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

I don't think any other pictures can better show what camping means to me, than this one. There may not be a canoe in the pic, but the rest are there. Taken on our first camping trip last year (first trip for me and the kids after my wife and I split up) it rained until it started snowing, then the weather got bad!😝 my kids were troopers, not wanting to go home, or even to a restaurant for supper. Here they are in a nice weather moment, learning more carving skills. So we have camping, food cooked over a fire restarted from last nights embers, kids getting along together, and knives!! They did great and it was a wonderful weekend. Already have four trips planned with them! I would love to win, but even if I don't, I'm winning in the woods this year!! Thanks for the chance Charlie!

Couple close ups of the blades- my daughter was even using her Girl Scouts camp knife! How about that for coincidence, I had forgotten which knife she used! My son used his small gentlemans lobster after he got the hang of using the Wood Jewel puuko!

Learning to make feather sticks safely with Big Baby!

I found a couple more from that weekend!
Here is my kids tent that we set up inside the big tent (keeps them warmer in freezing conditions and allows a moderate amount of privacy! We spent the whole day in the tent due to rain/snow, and had a blast!

 

[waynorth]

After two days of viewing and debating, Joanne has finally come up with a decision!!
I will use this post to turn the page, and continue!
See ya soon!