Rainforest settings for TC photos?

emcvay wrote:
Wettest Places in United States
Place Inches Milli­metres
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 ;)

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

-Eric

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

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.

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 TC’s going through that “Jungle” 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 TC’s might have problems in a place like this but many take their RV’sto the “ deep north”in Australia

A TC in Northern Australia

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. :)

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.

emcvay, I take your point -- west of the Cascades is very, very wet. (Very pretty, too!)

Wettest Places in United States
Place Inches Milli­metres
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 ;)

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 ;)

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 ;) 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)?

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:

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