Naples Plateau Camp
It took a lot of map studying but we found a great spot to spend a few days just off a Forest Service road in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, right outside of Naples, Idaho. No crick, like we were hoping for, but aside from one friendly forest ranger with a 4WD truck full of cadets, he was teaching to drive, we had the forest to ourselves. We enjoyed the never-ending Idaho thunderstorms sitting in a meadow. We had read on a full-timers blog that up here in the panhandle, if you find a flat spot to camp, you are within earshot of the trains and the highway, but this spot ain’t so bad.
While we were driving around on tiny, rocky, uneven, sandy, steep, muddy FS roads searching for the perfect spot, the new O’Rielly’s Borg Warner Lifetime Guaranteed Ford starter solenoid froze after only 9 days! I had found the receipt, in the file cabinet, for the solenoid I took out, I had put that one in before we left Pinon Hills in Oct of 2011, I got it at Napa, it was their high dollar one and it had a 36 month warranty.
Fortunately, the helper in my head, kept me calm and inspired me to invent a way to start the camper with some yankee engineering and our chassis shut off switch and our emergency battery jump switch, we kept going to our Shangri La.
Camp song: “Let Hope In – Daniel Bashta”
Cost: $ Free
RV/Camping: Either
Phone T-Mobile: Zero
Internet Verizon: Fine
Noise: Distant trains and traffic
Restrooms: No
Electric: No
Water: No
Dump: No
Trash: Pack it in Pack it out
Location: N48.5636°, W116.4166°
Elevation: 2149 feet
A couple miles west of town
Nights Stayed: June 25th thru June 30th 2014
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so……six nights eh? you didnt move all that time? stayed there and enjoyed the peace and quiet? outlasted rain storms? so what did you do about the starter, whack it with a hammer a couple times to loosen it up? i hope you were able to get another one. also what about bears? have you had any visitors yet? seen any? i know, lots of questions here. yer gunna have to leave a big comment to answer all my Q’s.
It was very nice just to sit there, I dont know when we will ever find a spot that cool again, no the storms never end.
Every time the solenoid sticks I basically hot wire the truck, the real problem is the fuel pump is hooked into it!
We dont seem to see anything wild, the forest rangers seems scared to death of the bears, they got signs all over the state!!! but we ain’t seen none, or no bloody campers, I shouldn’t joke huh?
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oh yeah, i wanted to ask about the flag-pins on the map. so far different colors for different locations. green, blue, orange, and multicolored. esplane, lucy?
I think the pins changed after the meltdown??? I hadn’t figured them out before, my guess is they are tied to the category of the post ???