This campsite located west of Buzzard Swamp on south of Lamonaville on Loleta Grade Road, offers a real wilderness experience on a large open campsite -- but has excellent cell services for those wanting to work remotely or just watch a video on their phone. Definitely check outside the campsites on Lamonaville Road along the Gurgling Run, which in recent years have been improved with hardened gravel pads and other enhancements by the Forest Service.
Do note that section of Loleta Grade Road along the East Branch of Millstone Creek is permanently closed since Superstorm Sandy, so you will need to access this area from Lamonaville or Forest Road 287 from Belltown/Millstone.
In this video I want to give you a tour of my off grid cabin and property in celebration of 10k subs. I have 50 remote acres of peace and quiet. I built the cabin myself with wood I cut and milled right on my land. The cabin is solar powered, I have a well, garden, fruit trees and plenty of game of around. And wouldn't you know it, winter has made an early appearance this year. Enjoy the tour!
I really like NB888 channel and his set up a lot. He has a decent chunk of land, and a reasonably sized cabin -- not these enormous multi-bedroom McMansions that you see everywhere. And he doesn't go crazy with solar or high technology -- at 500 watts of solar and a few kilowatt hours of battery storage -- his system is very small and minimalist. Basically heaven in my book.
The deer really don't even seem to notice or care much about people at Five Rivers. It probably isn't great that they are so comfortable with people there.
For calls their big gasser engine in their 3/4 ton pickups the Godzilla engine. Am I seriously considering getting another big truck? One bigger then I already have? Probably not but I can’t help but keep eyeing the Big Red regular cab long bed F-250 one of the developers regularly has parked out at the Colonie Town Hall. Truth is I kind of want a simple but big, reliable, old fashioned kind of work truck with an eight foot bed for lots of room for camping.
The Toyota Taco trucks are fine and you can get them with a six foot bed. They would be much better on the gas, driving in traffic and in the city and narrow off road trails. But I worry with all my camping gear – especially week long trips it would be difficult to fit all that crap in. And I don’t love all that technology crap and the big TV screens cars now have and you need to go through a menu to turn on the defroster. Seems like more crap to break, plus all that emissions and unreliable fuel economy crap like displacement on demand. The big trucks are exempt from that crap and tend to be over built and better suited to take a beating on the rough roads I like to explore. But the Toyotas are legendary for reliability – though they’ve been forced to adopt a lot of that government crap now.
The thing is that I know it’s only a matter of time before I have to commute again and if I move back out to the country then I’ll need something that won’t kill me with the gas bills. I don’t necessarily want to mess with the suspension of my next truck but I do like riding up high. And I’m not sure I want another half ton truck – they’re fine but their big but hardly heavy and though like a 3/4 ton. If anything the half ton trucks have gotten even more suburban – lower to the ground, lightweight components, softer seats and technology crap. Stuff I don’t really care about or want.
It costs nothing to look, dream and think. Red is good for now but it’s so obvious in my mind that he is going to need to be replaced sooner than later even if I do dump a lot of money to stretch out his remaining days.
