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Rainforest settings for TC photos?

RobertRyan
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I have noticed the bulk of the Photos submitted for trip reports are primarily in fairly dry areas. That is a generalisation , but TCโ€™s in Alaska are rare or a rainforest are non existent.
This shot of a Pop Up manufacturers TC in an Australian Forest is fairly common here. Pickup is a VW Amarok
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Eric_Lisa
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emcvay wrote:
Wettest Places in United States
Place Inches Milliยญmetres
Aberdeen Reservoir, Washington 130.6 3317
Laurel Mountain, Oregon 122.3 3106
Forks, Washington 119.7 3041
North Fork Nehalem Park, Oregon 118.9 3020

Out of curiosity i did a fast search....no East Coast towns in the top 4 anyway ๐Ÿ˜‰


Hehehe, heading to Nehalem in a few weeks. One of our favorite places to go for a spring outing at the coast. Glad it will be raining, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do with my pure-bred Pacific Northwest webbed feet. :R

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RobertRyan
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Bedlam wrote:
I camp all year, but here's no reason for me to take pictures of my camper sitting in a puddle on a rainy day with heavy overcast. The few pictures I post will typically have bright color rather than muted shades of gray.

Which tends too be most people. Different if you are taking your TC through pretty tough terrain

Bedlam
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I camp all year, but here's no reason for me to take pictures of my camper sitting in a puddle on a rainy day with heavy overcast. The few pictures I post will typically have bright color rather than muted shades of gray.

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RobertRyan
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bighatnohorse wrote:
There must be different kinds of rainforests.

The US Pacific Northwest rainforest has a more persistent drizzle pattern with occasional daily showers.
Forest trees are covered in moss and the moss supports ferns and fungi growth.

The abundant undergrowth decay - a rich soft humus - isn't the sort of thing one wants to drive on.

Your forest photos look quite different - not what I would expect from a "rainforest".
Here's a rainforest image from Wikipedia and it looks like some of my backyard:

That is a temperate Rainforest that you get in the Pacific Northwest and parts of Australia that is different too a Subtropical/Triopical Rainforest you get in extreme Northern Australia and South East Asia.( Vietnam) Wooded Photo I showed with the TC is part of a normal Forest in Australia, not a Rainforest.
You still get TCโ€™s going through that โ€œJungleโ€ in Northern Australia
Here is a shot of Camper Trailer being dragged through a small river in the extreme North of Australia. It is very close too Papua New Guinea
Traditional TCโ€™s might have problems in a place like this but many take their RVโ€™sto the โ€œ deep northโ€in Australia

A TC in Northern Australia

jimh406
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It took a while because I had to round up some pictures with pb different than it once was. Not in any particular order and includes pictures of my previous F350 SRW as well. Not desert. ๐Ÿ™‚

Mora Campground - Olympic National Park (Washington Coast)



Potholes State Park - Washington



Grants Village - Yellowstone National Park



Near Grayland, Washington (Washington Coast)



Just off the Tieton River - White Pass Area, Yakima County, Washington



Gifford Pinchot National Forest just Southwest of Mt St Helens



Depot Bay Area, Oregon



Okanogan National Forest



Deception Pass State Park



Threw this in taken from a hotel room on Kaui. Not me, but still cool. It's a truck camping.


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profdant139
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emcvay, I take your point -- west of the Cascades is very, very wet. (Very pretty, too!)
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emcvay
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Wettest Places in United States
Place Inches Milliยญmetres
Aberdeen Reservoir, Washington 130.6 3317
Laurel Mountain, Oregon 122.3 3106
Forks, Washington 119.7 3041
North Fork Nehalem Park, Oregon 118.9 3020

Out of curiosity i did a fast search....no East Coast towns in the top 4 anyway ๐Ÿ˜‰
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emcvay
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profdant139 wrote:
Interesting observation, Robert! I think that the moist part of the USA is mostly east of the Mississippi, where there is less federal open land than in the drier Far West. So if you like to camp way out in the middle of nowhere (which makes for some good photos!), you are more likely to be in dry territory. The wetter portion of the US was settled much earlier than the West, so it is more densely populated, in general.


Wait? What?

Wetter portion? The East coast doesn't get that much rain does it? Not even close me thinks. The Rain Forest (yes) of the west coast is the wettest place in North America and I believe has more TC's per capita than anywhere. I could be wrong on that but I doubt it.

12 FEET of rain is not unheard of in parts of the Northwest ๐Ÿ˜‰

My guess on why there are less pics is just that people don't travel to rainy places to camp as much as they do to warmer drier places ๐Ÿ˜‰ Just my thought!

After all, who'd want to travel to Ocean Falls to camp out (ok, I would but then I used to live there)?
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bighatnohorse
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There must be different kinds of rainforests.

The US Pacific Northwest rainforest has a more persistent drizzle pattern with occasional daily showers.
Forest trees are covered in moss and the moss supports ferns and fungi growth.

The abundant undergrowth decay - a rich soft humus - isn't the sort of thing one wants to drive on.

Your forest photos look quite different - not what I would expect from a "rainforest".
Here's a rainforest image from Wikipedia and it looks like some of my backyard:
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RobertRyan
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joerg68 wrote:
I have found it is much easier to take good pictures of my TC in an open field, and much more difficult in a forest full of trees.That may or may not have something to do with it.

It is relative. Base vehicle is unusual too start with, has a modified suspension

joerg68
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I have found it is much easier to take good pictures of my TC in an open field, and much more difficult in a forest full of trees. That may or may not have something to do with it.
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valhalla360
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RobertRyan wrote:
Grit dog wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out wth the second sentence of the first post means......

Seen no shots of TCโ€™s in Alaska or ones of a TC in a Rainforest. Primarily shots of TCโ€™s in arid areas for example Utah


Go back and re-read my point...the vast majority of truck campers don't live in areas with tropical rain forests.

Nothing right or wrong with it just the number of pictures will tend to be proportional to where they live (particularly on this site as it's geared towards N. America). If the bulk of the truck campers are in the USA & Canada, it's a long trip to get to tropical jungle, so you won't see a lot of pictures in those settings.
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RobertRyan wrote:
I have noticed the bulk of the Photos submitted for trip reports are primarily in fairly dry areas. That is a generalisation , but TCโ€™s in Alaska are rare or a rainforest are non existent.
This shot of a Pop Up manufacturers TC in an Australian Forest is fairly common here. Pickup is a VW Amarok


TC's in Alaska aren't rare you may not see many posted but we saw a bunch of them during our 2015 trip into Alaska with our TC. Check out the TCTR 3.0 link.
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c_traveler2
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RobertRyan wrote:
Grit dog wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out wth the second sentence of the first post means......

Seen no shots of TCโ€™s in Alaska or ones of a TC in a Rainforest. Primarily shots of TCโ€™s in arid areas for example Utah


In the Truck Camper Trip Report 3.0 you'll find a lots of TC's reports in Alaska including mine own, it doesn't take long for people to forget about the TCTR link.
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