Camping in the Santa Ana mtn range - date TBD

[Morrigoon]

Okay, so I'm dying to go on a trip. Camping is cheapest, and local camping even better! So I'm thinking of maybe heading to O'Neill Park (http://www.canyonlife.com/O'NeillPark.folder/KERRYWEB/oneill.htm) or Caspers Wilderness Park (http://ocparks.reserveworld.com/GSPRedirect.aspx?p=R&i=426). I'm presuming some time in October, but the official date is TBD. These locations are both very convenient to Orange County.

Before picking a weekend and making ressies, I thought I'd feel out whether some folks'd like to join in on the fun.

[Capt Jack]

I could surely do a camp trip, but timing in Oct will be tricky for various reasons, both $ and non-$ related.

if the timing works, Im surely in. hoping to do a few days or a week?

[Morrigoon]

Can't take any time off from work, so this'd be a Fri-Sun for me. Simple cheap weekender.

[Capt Jack]

ah, that helps my chances immensely (not to mention makes it relatively cheap)

I can live on jerky and nuts for a few days. :-)

[Morrigoon]

Yeah, cheap being the operative word. I was hoping to go somewhere a little nicer, but I'd have to head past Ventura Co. for that and I simply don't want to waste the time or the gas. These places are like 10 miles or less from where I am.

[Chernabog]

Let's camp in the esplanade and say that we're lining up for the 55th birthday :D

[Sohrshah]

You know, we could do a camping/Terra Cotta Warriors thing. Take off Friday, go see some bad ass chinese fighter-types in Santa Ana, and then go to the Santa Anas and do the camping thing for the weekends.

I'm DETERMINED to see some Asian clay action!

I am all in for camping. Hopefully I'll find something to sleep on by then. If not, I'll just drum all night. :D

[Cadaverous Pallor]

The terracotta warriors are awesome. :snap:

Oct is totally packed for us.

[Capt Jack]

so far the only weekend in October I KNOW is out in Oct is 11th & 12th (so far anyway)...

does that help?

[Morrigoon]

Not sure, that may be a weekend the boy and I have to spend gathering up our foodstuffs and sticking them in plastic bags (they're fumigating our complex shortly after)

I really wouldn't hold off the terracotta thing for this.

[Not Afraid]

October is really full.

[Morrigoon]

Would anybody still camp in early November? Or is that just too cold? I'd be concerned about weather at that point.

[Disneyphile]

Ken and I have been wanting to camp by ourselves for the longest time, so our next venture will probably just be the two of us. And, we really can't commit even $1 to recreation right now anyway. So, we're out of group camping for awhile. Sorry.

[Capt Jack]

Would anybody still camp in early November? Or is that just too cold? I'd be concerned about weather at that point.


I'd consider it.