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Re: East Glacier RV Parks
We stayed at Leaning Tree Cafe and Campground south of Babb in 2019 for a couple nights. I think it was $20/night with electric and $5 more if you wanted to take a shower. It was acceptable, the breakfasts there were great! We stayed there because it was reasonable and we wanted to hike the Grinnell Glacier trail, 6 miles up to the glacier and 6 miles back down to Many Glacier. The first night we wandered around the campground and got to know most of the campers, it isn't a huge place. The next day, after the hike, I grabbed some scotch and sat on the porch of the "Clubhouse" as that's the only place that had wi-fi. I thought it was weird, there was nobody in the office, but the door was unlocked. People started showing up, looking for a spot for the night. They'd go into the office, come back out, and ask me if I new anything about open sites. As I had met the other campers the night before, I knew who was moving on and what sites were probably open. So I showed each person to an empty site, and told them to go to the clubhouse later to pay their $20. I probably got 5 or 6 campers settled into campsites. Awhile later, a women and her son showed up at the office, I remembered her as the one who checked us in the night before.. I explained to her what sites I had settled people into, and told her that they would bring the $20 to the office when they saw someone there. She thanked me, she said she had to run her son to the nearest doctor which was a 50 mile drive each way and must have forgotten to lock the office. In hindsight, it was one of our most memorable and enjoyable camping experiences ever.905Views1like0CommentsRe: Let's Christen the new Forum w/ a Happijac versus Rieco Titan discussion!
I added Rieco Titan power jacks to our 2003 camper after a couple years of using a battery drill on the manual jacks. It was a huge improvement. The same RT system was on the camper when I sold it in 2019. The RT system was still working perfectly after 14 years. Our new camper we bought in 2019 came with a Happijac system. I was leery after all the bad I had heard about HJ from this forum and others. Sure enough, after two years the right front motor quit working. I took it all apart, and couldn't see anything wrong with it. No water infiltration, nothing It would only work if I gave it power and turned the gear on the motor to get it spinning. So, as replacement motors weren't available, I bought one of the new style motors. It's worked perfect the last couple years, still running 3 old style motors and 1 new style motor. My take - I have tremendous faith in the Rieco Titan system, and close to zero faith in the Happijac system.910Views1like0CommentsRe: Oxygenics Fury RV Handheld Shower head --COLD drip
I had the same issue in our Northstar 12STC truck camper. When I would turn off the water with the shutoff, the dripping water would change to straight cold, and an initial blast of icewater when I turned it back on. I was able to stop that by installing a thermostatic mixing valve similar to this. You set the temperature you like on the mixing valve, and it will let only water from the hot water tank pass until it reaches your preset temperature, then will start mixing in cold water to maintain that temperature. It wasn't hard to plumb in, basically you run your hot and cold water lines to the mixing valve, and only one line from the mixing valve to your shower faucet. I plumbed mine to the hot water side of the shower faucet, so the cold water handle does nothing anymore. No more cold water dripping or blast of icewater. Here it is plumbed in my camper.1.6KViews0likes0CommentsNew Forum Symbols
I looked in the help section, but couldn't find any info on this. The old forum changed the color of topics that had new posts since I last read them. Is that indicated somewhere in the posts of this new forum? Also, I see at least one post that has 2 green checkmarks at the top. What do the checkmarks indicate? Thanks, ScottSolved510Views0likes1CommentWhat Happened to the Truck Camper Forum?
So I clicked on my link to the RV.Net Truck Camper Forum, and this website opened. Where am I? Where's the truck camper forum? I found some of the recent posts here: Is this the correct path? Should I look somewhere else for the truck camper forum? Thanks, ScottSolved2.6KViews2likes13Comments
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