SnoPark Camping

[IDA rather b sledding]

Kind of a funny overnight campout story. We got into an Idaho parking area late one evening to ride first thing the next day. We had our pickup camper and sleds. About 4 AM I hear a loader coming in to clean up the lot. He ends up working right around us for about an hour. We didn't need a wakeup call for sure. We got back from our half day ride and the loader is back still working. Several of the grooming volunteers were working in the area so I went and said thanks for the hard work. As we talked the fello on the loader realized we must have been in the camper and apologized for working around our rig, he said I must have been over there for 30 minutes. I smiled and told him it was an hour and fifteen minutes. Really great guys and truely did not mean to bother us at all. You can't gripe when a guy spends that much time as a volunteer. Hats off to the McCall club.

 

[shmuckaluck]

Hey guys,
Thats great, here in Washington you would of got, (knock, knock, you answer the door, Hello, There's no overnight parking you will have to leave and come back in the morning. But it's after 12 am. Doesn't matter you will have to return after 4 am, or we will ticket you for billion dollars, and have your rig towed, compliments of Christine Gregiore.

 

[Goinboardin]

Thats a good one! And yeah sucks that alot of places would make you leave.

I slept in my pickup's back seat in a rest stop on I80 in NE one night, hammering snow storm, I laid down around 4am and was exhausted. Woke up to a highway plow blasting its air horn at me because he wanted to plow the spot I was parked it. Freaked me out! I didn't even know where I was at first. Just jumped in the driver seat and took off.

Got up to about 65mph with flow of traffic, then thought to myself damn the roads look slick. Then passed 3 cars/trucks in the ditch within a mile or two. I slowed back down. It was extremely slick yet, just let the fools pass.

 

[Kordero]

Ski area parking lot in WA. Not really sleeping in the back of a full-size Bronco laying almost directly on sheet metal. Truck is covered in snow but hear a loader working around us. Then the sound of chains clinking. Then the sound of chains being wrapped around one of the axles. Then tug, tug, tug moving us out of the way - while the driver is frantically trying to turn on lights, honk, etc. Pretty funny, what's the guy thinking?, "Dumb drunk skiers leaving their rigs up here for me to have get out of my warm cab and wake up. Screw it I'm not gonna knock this time."

 

[IDA rather b sledding]

Thats pretty good.