slosurfer
03-17-2008, 05:04 PM
This past weekend (Mar. 14-16, 2008) Jack and I went to the Central Coast Meet and Greet for Expeditionportal at Aliso Camp in the Los Padres National Forest near Cuyama, CA. There were some really cool people there and really cool rigs. There was Jack and his military radar truck that has been converted to an rv with a studebaker grafted into the top, Bill and his bitchin VW synchro with a subaru motor, Jeff and his Sportsmobile, Thenos and Tina in their FJC, Paul in his Sportsmobile, Blair and Ewan in the Land Rover, Seth in his Sportsmobile, Tom and Denise with the suburban and custom trailer with a foldout tent, and my 4runner and trailer. The coolest person and rig by far was someone who just happened to be camping there, his name is Marcus and from Switzerland and he had a 70series landcruiser with a custom interior and poptop. Very cool person to talk to and I'm hoping to run into him again when he heads up the Big Sur Coastline.
The potluck dinners were topnotch with top shelf tequila and single malt scotch(which I unfortunately missed out on). Very cool to drool over the other rigs and meet new people who live in the same area I do.
It ended up being pretty cold and even snowed at camp (below 3000ft) for a little bit on Saturday night. Saturday Jack and I went with the FJC and Paul's Sportsmobile up Cottonwood Cyn to Sierra Madre Rd. and then to McPhereson Peak (~5800FT) It started snowing while we were up there and by the time we left there was 3" of snow and it was just getting started. It was very cool! Jack had a blast making snowballs, although he didn't like the cold back at camp and ended up retiring to his warm tent and sleeping bag early.
Sunday, the suburban starter bit the dust (brushes were gone!), so Jack and I stuck around since I was the only one who had cell service. Tom called one of his friends in ventura who drove 70miles of windy road to bring out a new starter. Got it started and we went home, which had me fighting a hell of headwind the whole way. Anyways, on to the pics:
Jeff's Sportsmobile
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7137.jpg
Bill's Synchro (sorry the pic doesn't do the colors of this rig justice)
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7139.jpg
Blair's Land Rover
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7158.jpg
Marcus' 70series diesel with poptop
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7141.jpg
Obligatory "get a pic of your rig next to Marcus' rig"
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7142.jpg
Thenos and Tina's FJC w/ Sparticus
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7175.jpg
Paul's Sportsmobile
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7178.jpg
Tom's Suburban
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7218.jpg
The potluck dinners were topnotch with top shelf tequila and single malt scotch(which I unfortunately missed out on). Very cool to drool over the other rigs and meet new people who live in the same area I do.
It ended up being pretty cold and even snowed at camp (below 3000ft) for a little bit on Saturday night. Saturday Jack and I went with the FJC and Paul's Sportsmobile up Cottonwood Cyn to Sierra Madre Rd. and then to McPhereson Peak (~5800FT) It started snowing while we were up there and by the time we left there was 3" of snow and it was just getting started. It was very cool! Jack had a blast making snowballs, although he didn't like the cold back at camp and ended up retiring to his warm tent and sleeping bag early.
Sunday, the suburban starter bit the dust (brushes were gone!), so Jack and I stuck around since I was the only one who had cell service. Tom called one of his friends in ventura who drove 70miles of windy road to bring out a new starter. Got it started and we went home, which had me fighting a hell of headwind the whole way. Anyways, on to the pics:
Jeff's Sportsmobile
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7137.jpg
Bill's Synchro (sorry the pic doesn't do the colors of this rig justice)
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7139.jpg
Blair's Land Rover
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7158.jpg
Marcus' 70series diesel with poptop
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7141.jpg
Obligatory "get a pic of your rig next to Marcus' rig"
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7142.jpg
Thenos and Tina's FJC w/ Sparticus
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7175.jpg
Paul's Sportsmobile
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7178.jpg
Tom's Suburban
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/slosurfer27/Aliso%20Camp%20CC%20Expo%20March%2008/IMG_7218.jpg