Camps pitched in your memory

[John Joseph]

I find that some of the most desirable places to camp no longer exist. Instead they are etched in my memory, from trips long passed and now either don't exist or are unrecognizable due to improvements, forest fires, or simply scrubbed from the earth by government edict.
I still find myself contemplating those good times.
Here's a pic of Camp 16 on the banks of the Merced River, now long gone, replaced by 1970's cement cabinoids
Are there any phantom campgrounds haunting your memories?

[Happy Joe]

here was one of my favorites long since destroyed by trash people;

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Enjoy!

[MacGyver]

The site wasn't trashed. The gang was. I'd been camping with the same group of people for around 40 years. We didn't all get together every trip, sometimes it was the core five or six, sometimes a bit more. But in the Fall of 2013 we had what I call the last hurrah before personal politics started tearing things apart. 20 people sitting around, laughing, joking, playing cornhole, what we called Full-contact Uno and, of course, mucho alcohol. I have a long video of the action that I watch from time to time. Great but bittersweet memories of a trip that I doubt I'll ever see the likes of again. Here's a shot of the village from the hill behind the site.

[Happy Joe]

Here is a Pic of our "Reliables"... those we could pretty much count on for Woods time the photographer is naturally missing from the pic though still a member of the reduced group; sadly we have lost one to diabetes and another, incapacitated due to to COPD (and old age).



Enjoy!

[John Joseph]

Here is a Pic of our "Reliables"... those we could pretty much count on for Woods time the photographer is naturally missing from the pic though still a member of the reduced group; sadly we have lost one to diabetes and another, incapacitated due to to COPD (and old age).



Enjoy!

"It's always fair weather when good friends get together."

[Happy Joe]

... Found another old camping pic.. (courtesy of one of my friends)...



Enjoy!