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Rich, DW and I were USFS campground hosts for a few years on the south side of the Uinta's. The Uintah Basin people gravitated to certain campgrounds and the SLC people gravitated to their chosen campgrounds. The place we were hosts mainly got the city people. Not many were locals. It sounds...

Me: Army National Guard 1976-2012 Engineer and Ordnance Full-time military technician 1983-2012 DW: Active Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard 1988-2014 Fuel, Water, Engineer, Finance, MI (she was busy) Full-time military technician for 10 years OIF 2007

My father had a cousin whose first name was Annis. She married a man whose last name was Annis. Her married name became Annis Annis.

Gary, Our experiences as USFS volunteer campground hosts for 4 years at the same campground mirrored yours. I had to argue with people every weekend about how "reservation chairs" didn't cut it. Signs were posted at the fee station explaining what "occupy and pay for the site" meant. Some people...

https://www.colonialflag.com/new-hampshire-state-flags/ Close but not quite.

I pull my 2017 Reflection 28BH with a 2010 Ford F350. There is no way I would try to pull it with a half-ton truck. I haven?t weighed it loaded but intend to. Not sure where Grand Design gets that low hitch weight. Twenty percent of the weight goes on the hitch. That figures out to 2200 pounds...

I feel the same way, Bill. My wife and I are both retired Army and have been through the exact experiences you have. People with those kinds of issues don't make soldiers, only problems.

Try an industrial hose supplier. In my case it was EVCO House of Hose. I had to replace 2 filler hoses on my toy hauler. The hoses were marked as fuel hose but the inside layer expanded to the point no gasoline would flow through. Mine were not unequal sizes though. The hose guy had never seen...

We are required to keep the restrooms clean, update the reservation signs on each site, keep the campground free of trash, ?enforce? the rules, and help the full-time USFS employees as needed. The volunteer agreement says a minimum of 2 hours and a maximum of 8. I laughed when I read the...

My wife and I are currently USFS volunteer campground hosts in our fourth year. We and the seasonal rec techs work hard to keep the campgrounds clean and decent for everyone. I haven?t heard one good comment about concessionaire-run campgrounds in Utah. People tell me the host harasses you for...

Chief, you are not making me feel good about this. We have 99% settled on buying a new Grand Design Reflection. It was the cleanest as far as workmanship and we liked the floorplan. I didn't crawl deep inside and under it, we didn't have the time that day. We had planned on going back for a...

We looked at a 2017 Forest River Arctic Wolf a couple months ago. I was really interested in it until I saw it at the dealer. What a mess. Zero pride in workmanship and quality control. I can't believe they would try to sell this thing. I saw the inside and and didn't bother to walk around it. I...

Speaking from experience as a USFS campground host, I've had people in the campground running vehicles during quiet hours to charge trailer batteries because they don't have a generator. They are treated the same as someone running any noisemaking device. (One guy tried using his truck-mounted...

My trailer is 5 years old. I just replaced the gears in my fuel pump (GPI model EZ8-RV). A repair kit from the local pump/tank parts store cost 16 dollars and I'm back in business.

My LP/CO detector is near the floor next to the entry door. On rare occasions it has gotten a whiff of exhaust from the generator running with the door open. My son stood in front of the alarm and sprayed sunscreen on his legs during the first year we owned the trailer. That messed it up and it...