First solo camping trip

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Glad the coil springs didn't pop out. We had it back up and on the trail an hour after running into them.
 
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My buddy Anthony's twisted drive shaft. Shortened it enough to come out of the Tcase. Time for a SYE.
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Me and my broken axle. Luckily me and Anthony both were prepared with spares and proper tools and didn't have much down time at all.
 
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Coming up the right side of Daniel.
 
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Cody hitting the first ledge on Daniel.
 
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Dutch John was so slick on Friday evening my buddy slid off the trail down into a tree. Had to winch him back up and use the hi lift and a BFH to get the door opening and closing again. Cracked the windshield but amazingly not the passenger glass.
 
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This was Tina's first time out in her jeep that she got and we lifted just last month. First time driving rather than riding and she did excellent. Hoping to have her hitting Daniel with confidence by the end of the season!
She went up Dutch John and Dickey Bell just fine.
 
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Ed in his YJ going over the first ledge. Carburetor proves to be a down fall in this hobby. First trip out with this setup and quickly decided that propane is the next priority upgrade. Otherwise very capable rig with the 8.8 and 36s
 
Now that I know how easy it is to upload pics with this tapatalk thing my next trip and story will be up to date better. Planning a trip to Harlan KY in August.

Also I'm finally planning my dream trip! Me and my best friend will be heading to Moab, UT for the Easter Jeep Safari 2014! Can't wait for this trip, been reading about it since I was 12.

I truly enjoyed this trip and look forward to more solo camping trips. I urge everyone to give it a try. Anyone can say they will camp alone, but would you really do it? I can say I have now and it's definitely a self test. I had no one to talk to for quite some time. If you can stand the solitude, it's a great way to relax and please no one but yourself on your own time schedule!
 
Great pics and thread! Makes me wanna quit work and camp for a living, haha!
 
Thanks man. I love camping. It would be awesome to just travel all over the country in a jeep seeing everything and camping along the way!
 
Hammock camping isn't for everybody, but I like it a lot. Here is mine set up at Uwharrie a couple weeks ago. The Hennessy hammock has a mosquito net to keep the bugs off, an excellent rain fly, and you can stake out the middle edges of it to keep it from wrapping you up like a cocoon. I have slept in this thing in a serious downpour more than once and it worked really well. In the summer I usually just sleep under a sheet, but when it's a little chilly I bring two sleeping bags. The thin bag I just lay in the bottom of the hammock, and the thick bag that I sleep in goes on top of that. Works like a champ.

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Hammock camping is the best! As several others have mentioned you MUST use a thermarest or some other sleeping pad. I decided to "go light" on a trip last summer and froze without my sleeping pad.

Looks like fun. Now I'm excited because I'm going out to pigs ah tonight!
 
Awesome trip I have always wanted to camp the top of Daniel. Maybe this year.
 
Do it man! Some time spent really taking Uwharrie in will really make one appreciate it a lot more. I'm taking my Dad out in the jeep for the first time this Saturday. I plan on taking him to the top of Daniel and just hanging out for a little bit.
 
I’m on vacation and couldn’t sleep. This trip crossed my mind so I dug up this thread. Looking back on this, at the stage of life I’m in now, I’m so glad I took the time to do this. I met my now wife just months after this, now we have two kids. I surely don’t have time like I once had. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, now we wheel/camp as a family. But I do think back on this often, and how careless and “free” I was as a single man living alone. Duke has since passed on, as did his friend Lilly, and I rarely see those friends I met up with that weekend. Life has changed so much, really in good ways, but changed none the less. As Tracy Lawrence said, time marches on.

Take the trip, take the time off work, push yourself out of your comfort zone, mark something off your bucket list.

I don’t keep a journal, but I should. I see the value in going back and reading the stories I’ve written here and re-living a trip as I do. Thinking of writing the story about AOP last year.
 
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