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Went on a quick camping trip this past weekend for my buddy's birthday. It was pretty chilly (about 39 degrees at night) and the Bambed in the back of the truck was much appreciated. It was a full moon (or 1 day past) so I also whipped out the Weathertech full window blackout shades. Those things are cool! They all fit perfectly and they easily wedge in place, except for the 2 cargo window shades - these are cut perfectly but they don't have an edge to wedge behind so they just kind of set in place and can fall out easily. I'll have to put a couple little tabs in the plastic surrounding the windows to provide a place for them to wedge behind.
As a special birthday surprise for my buddy's 61st, I got us good and stuck in bottomless mud to start off the trip. This entrance to the river wash has always been passable but not anymore after record rains in October and November. Last time we were here was late September. Now the whole entrance is a giant mud pit. I had the frame on the mud and all 4 wheels just spun. We got out of the truck and promptly sunk - his side was more watery and he sunk to his knees and I only sunk to mid-shins. It was the kind of mud where you can barely lift your foot out and you are in danger of pulling your boots right off. Luckily 3 side-by-sides came by and 2 used their winches to hook up to my pull strap and pull me out backwards. There was nowhere forward for me to winch to, just more mud. Once they pulled me about 5 feet and out of the suction, the DAC/Crawl feature in 4-low worked very well to inch me backwards out of the mud. My Maxtrax boards are gone, disappeared in the mud. I'll have to go back and dig for them when it dries out a bit more. That's 300 bucks down there!
Took some very interesting photos in the near-full moonlight. With the shutter on the iphone adjusted to max (10-seconds), it makes the moonlit canyon look just like daylight.
You can see where the bottom of my truck smoothed out the mud on the right side.
In the photo above, it's pitch black out and the canyon wall in the background is lit by the moonlight. The truck is lit by the firelight.
Here the rising moon is illuminating about 3/4 of the truck with the back still in the dark.
Here's the same photo but from the other side. The fire and our camp is in the pitch-black dark and that's just moonlight illuminating everything else.
As a special birthday surprise for my buddy's 61st, I got us good and stuck in bottomless mud to start off the trip. This entrance to the river wash has always been passable but not anymore after record rains in October and November. Last time we were here was late September. Now the whole entrance is a giant mud pit. I had the frame on the mud and all 4 wheels just spun. We got out of the truck and promptly sunk - his side was more watery and he sunk to his knees and I only sunk to mid-shins. It was the kind of mud where you can barely lift your foot out and you are in danger of pulling your boots right off. Luckily 3 side-by-sides came by and 2 used their winches to hook up to my pull strap and pull me out backwards. There was nowhere forward for me to winch to, just more mud. Once they pulled me about 5 feet and out of the suction, the DAC/Crawl feature in 4-low worked very well to inch me backwards out of the mud. My Maxtrax boards are gone, disappeared in the mud. I'll have to go back and dig for them when it dries out a bit more. That's 300 bucks down there!
Took some very interesting photos in the near-full moonlight. With the shutter on the iphone adjusted to max (10-seconds), it makes the moonlit canyon look just like daylight.
You can see where the bottom of my truck smoothed out the mud on the right side.
In the photo above, it's pitch black out and the canyon wall in the background is lit by the moonlight. The truck is lit by the firelight.
Here the rising moon is illuminating about 3/4 of the truck with the back still in the dark.
Here's the same photo but from the other side. The fire and our camp is in the pitch-black dark and that's just moonlight illuminating everything else.
