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Offline AKIron

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« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2004, 01:23:39 PM »
Real purdy pictures Rip, bet you had a good time. Welcome back.
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« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2004, 02:25:28 PM »
Holy Cow Rip,
Look in the 1st pic, directly over the camper. UFO?

BTW, good lookin truck. How did it pull the mountains?
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« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2004, 02:31:38 PM »
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My favorite picture, a grandson with his grandfather (Minnesota). [/url]

Hey, that kid's got the steely-eyed look of a natural-born Aces High killer.

Thanks for sharing, Rip.
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« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2004, 02:48:13 PM »
thx for sharing rip :)


more of this kind of posts and less politics
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« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2004, 02:52:01 PM »
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thx for sharing rip :)


more of this kind of posts and less politics


Cant disagree here, the USA has much better looking natural scenery than Norway...

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« Reply #20 on: July 07, 2004, 03:24:35 PM »
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Cant disagree here, the USA has much better looking natural scenery than Norway...

;)


hihihi :D  nice try
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« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2004, 03:31:23 PM »
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BTW, good lookin truck. How did it pull the mountains?


TY. Not bad, it only kicked out of OD over the passes and I maintained 50 mph with the Camper on the back just fine over 4 major passes. On "Look out" pass in Idaho it kicked into 2nd gear and I bullied it back up to 50 mph, never exceeding 3500 prm in the process.   That 460 cubic inch engine is a monster! I wish I had the 3.73 rear end instead of the 4.10 though.  MPG would have been better with the 3.73 rear end, 12.5 mpg going to Minnesota (light load, 300 lbs of gear and 4 passengers) and about 8 mpg avg. coming back (with 3200lb camper on the back, plus aforementioned load)  I had a helluva head wind all the way back westward too, so I bet I could get 9 mpg without the wind.  Hooking the boat up in Eastern WA to homeward leg (3 hours) didn't affect the mpg at all.
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« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2004, 03:40:43 PM »
My dad used to have an identical style camper on his '88 F250. It had a 400 Modified and it was a dog. Wound up putting extra cooling on the engine and tranny to keep from burning it up. But to it's credit, it never broke down and he made several long trips (Texas to D.C., Texas to SoCal, Texas to Minn.), just never got in a hurry.

Now that I think about it, he probably had 5,000 lbs of crap thrown in that camper.
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« Reply #23 on: July 07, 2004, 04:19:50 PM »
Rip you gotta take that thing to Europe! :)
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« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2004, 05:01:52 PM »
Did you get a chance to take the "Going to the Sun" road?

See the weeping wall?


I love Glacier.
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« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2004, 05:08:30 PM »
rip.....

what kind of camera did you use?
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« Reply #26 on: July 07, 2004, 06:07:49 PM »
yellowstone is better than glacier

:p

WB rip and me!
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« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2004, 06:13:51 PM »
rpm, lmao!

grun, LOL! ...with a texas oil well deed in hand, yah! http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Difference.jpg

Midnight, neg on GTTS road, no vehick-alls over 21' allowed anymore...I'm 24' with camper and wasn't prepared to unload it due to old jacks that need replacing on the camper. We spent two nights at Saint Mary, then drove the southern route around to West Glacier and spent 1 night at Lake McDonald (super size me baby)

Nilsen, these were taken with an old pentax 35mm and a canon s40 digital. One day I'll get serious about buying a good digital camera, its on the 'want' list.

Skull, yellowstone next year! been close though, Quake lake...
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« Reply #28 on: July 07, 2004, 06:21:04 PM »
yellowstone is still growing back after the 88 fire.

damn 20 fish in 12 hours?!?!?! i bet you were using the damned spinner to.  I gave up spinners last year for Fly fishing, which i still suck at. only caught 4 fish.  3 brook trout and 1 Bonneville cutthroat out by yellow stone. (brook's on Madision River just inside yellowstone and the cutthroat on the Hoback river in my disclosed fishing hole:D ;) )


Quake Lake is truly sad.  The sight of those tree's out in the lake is truly sad.:(
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« Reply #29 on: July 07, 2004, 06:25:31 PM »
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yellowstone is still growing back after the 88 fire.

damn 20 fish in 12 hours?!?!?! i bet you were using the damned spinner to.  I gave up spinners last year for Fly fishing, which i still suck at. only caught 4 fish.  3 brook trout and 1 Bonneville cutthroat out by yellow stone. (brook's on Madision River just inside yellowstone and the cutthroat on the Hoback river in my disclosed fishing hole:D ;) )


Quake Lake is truly sad.  The sight of those tree's out in the lake is truly sad.:(

Yeah, spinners :)  I've always been a meat hunter, not a trophy hunter :)

Chit, if you're ever out in the Yellowstone area in the spring, hollar, I have fishing rights to 3 ponds on the Gravelly range at 7,000 altitude where you could put cotton on a fly hook and cast it out in the ponds and they'd bite it...we caught 15 fish one afternoon, on my first and only time on a fly rod.  My stepdad has his own pond on the same range, with Brown, Brookies, rainbows and GRAYLING!** (Step brother works for the federal fish hatchery in Ennis, 70 miles North of Yellowstone)

**(I caught the "Cycle" one afternoon but I cheated and used spinners :p )
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