ssthrd
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Pbutler97 wrote:Folks drive late model trucks in with the water up above the bottoms of the doors to launch boats?
The area looks awesome. Have to get there one of these days.
Folks around here spend more boat time in the salt chuck than in fresh water. Bigger fish. And more rust.
Ya do watcha gotta do!
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Desert Captain
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As scary as this kind of boat launching/retrieval appears it sure looked like these folks knew what they were about and I sincerely doubt it was their first rodeo. The lake is around 66 percent full so there is a lot of room for more water, hopefully a good winter of heavy snow in the surrounding mountains will generate the runoff needed to top the lake up.
At least it is fresh water... can you imagine what salt what salt water would do to those nice new trucks? ![[emoticon]](https://forums.motorhome.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/doh.gif "doh")
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Pbutler97
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Desert Captain wrote:As scary as this kind of boat launching/retrieval appears it sure looked like these folks knew what they were about and I sincerely doubt it was their first rodeo. The lake is around 66 percent full so there is a lot of room for more water, hopefully a good winter of heavy snow in the surrounding mountains will generate the runoff needed to top the lake up.
At least it is fresh water... can you imagine what salt what salt water would do to those nice new trucks?
I was looking at it from the standpoint of damaging an expensive truck, or at least making its value essentially nil. A pickup is not water tight when you submerge the rockers and bottoms of doors. But whatever floats their boat lol.
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It’s been several years but I really liked camping on the west side of the lake. And if you drive up the road towards Young on the east side of the lake a few miles there’s a flat area that I always wanted to dry camp at and the view over the deep canyon was spectacular.
Also, go east on 260 and then turn south on the Young road and go about 2 miles where the big powerlines go over the road and turn left. There’s terrific dry camping in that area and one of the areas also has a terrific view over the edge of the Rim.
I think it’s about 20 miles north of Globe, up the salt river canyon, there’s two campgrounds on the left side, very secluded and peaceful and completely covered over by trees.
Dry camping in Arizona what was the best and the only problem was, I ran out of time to try all the great places I saw! Craig
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With the under seat area a convenient place for bulky electronics to be mounted I'd choose a very long trailer tongue extension instead of a deep dunk. Their truck, their choice.
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Desert Captain wrote:OP here,
Yes we live in Payson Arizona which is 40 miles north of the lake.
![[emoticon]](https://forums.motorhome.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/cool.gif "cool") My best friend lives in Payson. He lives on Chatham Dr. We were out there in 2017 and stayed at Houston Mesa Campground.
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Houston Mesa CG is a very nice but largely unknown by most folks passing through Payson. I'
ve never seen it full so keep it in mind if your travels leave you anywhere near Payson at the end of the day.
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Pbutler97 wrote:Desert Captain wrote:As scary as this kind of boat launching/retrieval appears it sure looked like these folks knew what they were about and I sincerely doubt it was their first rodeo. The lake is around 66 percent full so there is a lot of room for more water, hopefully a good winter of heavy snow in the surrounding mountains will generate the runoff needed to top the lake up.
At least it is fresh water... can you imagine what salt what salt water would do to those nice new trucks?
I was looking at it from the standpoint of damaging an expensive truck, or at least making its value essentially nil. A pickup is not water tight when you submerge the rockers and bottoms of doors. But whatever floats their boat lol.
It’s a Ford. He was probably hoping for an insurance claim to total it so he can get a Ram!
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