{"id":10451,"date":"2016-09-13T12:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/?p=10451"},"modified":"2016-09-13T12:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:28:57","slug":"indian-creek-boondocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/indian-creek-boondocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Creek boondocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, yea, I&#8217;m a little behind in my blogging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Back at the end of August we rolled into Alpine, Wyoming to stay near enough to the Grand Teton National Park &#8211; as it was our destination the following week &#8211; but far enough away to avoid the Labor Day Weekend crowds. Not far out of Alpine, and across Idaho state lines, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/ctnf\/recarea\/?recid=54449\">Palisades Reservoir<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/ctnf\">Caribou-Targhee National Forest<\/a>. Here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campendium.com\/indian-creek\">Indian Creek<\/a>, we though we would camp along the water for the week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJsmTmsgRGD\/\" target=\"_blank\">A photo posted by Kerri McHale\ud83c\udf32\ud83c\udf35\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd (@asolojourner)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-08-29T15:00:06+00:00\">Aug 29, 2016 at 8:00am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We soon realized the flaw in that plan as the four-wheelers, quads, and dirt-bikers were doing their thing in the large open areas near the water. Not only do we not care to be near all that dust, but same with the noise. And the dogs would be unsafe both to each other and to those having fun on their vehicles. The camping wasn&#8217;t great to begin with; just a large open and sandy patch of land that the water once claimed as the lake bottom. So, after a single night, we set out to find another place to camp with a little more P&amp;Q (peace and quiet).<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, we did not need to move far at all. Just across the highway and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campendium.com\/forest-road-281\">two miles down a gravel road<\/a> lay the best campsite in the entire area (we know, we checked them all) and we moved right in, and a whole week before the Labor Day crowds would arrive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0090.CR2_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0090.CR2_-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"img_0090-cr2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0090.CR2_-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0090.CR2_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0090.CR2_.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our new home had a stream rambling past, trees on either side of us, an a large flat area for the trailer and space for the dogs to play. Immediately, Byron was in the water and Moose was in the bushes hunting for rodents. In fact, Moose actually caught his first even mouse here, beginning his long career as a mouse-killer. If only we could convince him to be so diligent to the rodents that make it inside the trailer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0095.CR2_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0095.CR2_-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"img_0095-cr2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0095.CR2_-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0095.CR2_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0095.CR2_.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0093.CR2_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0093.CR2_-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"img_0093-cr2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0093.CR2_-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0093.CR2_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0093.CR2_.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There still lay another mile or so of dirt road beyond our site and by the Thursday before Labor Day RV-traffic started rolling down the road. Friday we counted dozens of trailers, most in the 40+ foot range and almost all carrying &#8220;toys&#8221; (quads, bikes, etc) with them. We were lucky that our spot sheltered us from the crowds gathering up the road, but we knew it was too large to be alone that weekend. Eventually, someone would come asking to stay beside us, and that did happen just after sunset on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>A truck, towing a horse trailer, came down to our plot of land. I went out to greet and welcome and met three cowboys looking for a place to pitch tent for the night so they could ride the trails in the morning. We couldn&#8217;t as for better neighbors in my opinion. They were gone by first light, riding the trails all day, then came in around dinner time and packed everything back up to go home.<\/p>\n<p>We left the following day (Sunday) to pull into our favorite spot to camp in the entire West, which would become our home for two weeks and a long-planned adventure back country camping in the Grand Teton National Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yea, I&#8217;m a little behind in my blogging&#8230; Back at the end of August we rolled into Alpine, Wyoming to stay near enough to the Grand Teton National Park &#8211; as it was our destination the following week &#8211; but far enough away to avoid the Labor Day Weekend&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[132,241,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boondocking","category-idaho","category-wyoming-by-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0092.CR2_-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9livM-2Iz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-tramp.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}