Heat
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Topic: Heat
Posted By: dsmiths
Subject: Heat
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2012 at 9:20pm
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Donna and I did last thursday and friday night at Hoosier National Forest, it is the hotest temps we have so far endured. OOhh I put an inside and outside wireless temp gauge in, and we saw 101 thursday afternoon and 103 friday. We hiked 4.5 miles and went to tipsaw beach, but alas, it was too hot. we pulled out Saturday 6/30 morning early to beat the heat, the pod was cool inside with the a/c on, but it is so noisy. Noise is better than hot. We are looking forward to fall camping. ------------- Dane and Donna Smith 2011 RP-172 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer 4X4 lift kit prodigy wireless brake controller |
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Posted By: kymooses
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2012 at 9:49pm
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We were in Glendale in Elizabethtown. Gauges had us at 105 Friday night as we set up camp and 103 on Saturday. We got our butts up early this morning hitched up the Pod, came home and cancelled our reservations for next weekend so that we could recover! ------------- https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=cnBvZC5zcG90dGVyQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ - RPod Rallies https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1W1foQXGtrjf8aYly1uh0b-bHPfI&hl=en_US - RPod Owner Map |
Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2012 at 7:37am
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I wish you had siad that was where you were at.. We drove RIGHT by Saturday.
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Posted By: kymooses
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2012 at 8:50am
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Yuh, we usually spend beginning of July and the 4th their for our anniversary each year, they usually have a pretty good fireworks show but of course it was cancelled because of the burn ban. ------------- https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=cnBvZC5zcG90dGVyQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ - RPod Rallies https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1W1foQXGtrjf8aYly1uh0b-bHPfI&hl=en_US - RPod Owner Map |
Posted By: Dulcinea54935
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2012 at 12:46pm
We spent last weekend in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, Dakota Regional Park. Using just the fan in the camper kept things bearable during the day and temperatures very comfortable for sleeping -- without a cover, however. The campground was located basically just across the street from the Minneapolis Zoo, which we visited twice and handy to shopping and museums. 
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Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2012 at 9:57pm
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No A/C?
------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: Podsible Dream
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 5:29pm
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Just got in from 3 nights down in the Jersey Pine Barrens. 100 plus for Friday and Saturday. No electricity in NJ state parks! So we roughed it. Slept in the screen house two nights, and after thunderstorm on Saturday evening, in the pod. I found some 12 volt clip on fans at Walmart on clearance and put in some cigar lighter outlets front and back, so we did have moving air.
We sure didn't do much moving around , though!! Great birding though - saw a bald eagle flying along the Wading River at about 40 feet, on it's way some where! Lots of small birds in the pine/oak scrub. Including a pair of Prairie Warblers - a pretty yellow with black stripping little bird. Whip-poor-wills kept us entertained almost all night! There was a tree between us and the next site with a hollow in it and busy pair of flickers feeding a hungry brood all day. Looked like the heat kept folks home- the camp ground area we were in had more than 125 sites - maybe 20 were filled, and many had reserved tags, but no occupants! We survived with lots of water and iced tea. A bag of ice 7 lbs lasted barely 18 hours, but the little frig on propane kept Italian Ices frozen just fine! ------------- Chris and Walt '10 RP-171 'Free Spirit' '13 Dodge Durango Crew 5.7 L Hemi V8 |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 7:59pm
Cool! 
------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual
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Posted By: dsmiths
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 9:39pm
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Podsible, I love going to sleep to the song of the whiporwill, nothing like it, unles its Southern Indiana Kady did's (cicada) what a sweet song, I hate it during hot weather and Donna makes me close the bedroom windows and I can't hear the critters outside in the woods behind our house, we are heading out next weekend to enjoy it first hand. ------------- Dane and Donna Smith 2011 RP-172 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer 4X4 lift kit prodigy wireless brake controller |
Posted By: this_is_nascar
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2012 at 7:56am
I'm very familiar with the area (live about 30-miles away). Wow, you have more nerve than I do. It was way too hot for camping like that, in my opinion. Matter of fact, we have a seasonal campsite in the pines (my larger Jayco) and decided not to go down to the campsite due to the heat and we have full hook-ups there.
------------- "Ray & Connie" - 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road |
Posted By: Podsible Dream
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2012 at 10:09pm
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Dane, we only heard a cicada for about a few minutes each day, must have been tooooo hoottt!
Anyway, we survived just fine! Nothing like a screen hose for being part of nature  !
Ray, hope to see you in September! We saw an R Pod in a driveway near Sweetwater, along the Mullica. Anybody we might know? ------------- Chris and Walt '10 RP-171 'Free Spirit' '13 Dodge Durango Crew 5.7 L Hemi V8 |