Help Us Name Our Van | Camping at Harmon Lake, BC

All right we have been visiting with our friends Hannah and Andy which you might remember from our Baja series and they've been visiting us all week and it's been rainy and kind of crappy out and then we realized we can just go to the sunshine so we're gonna go on a camping trip. So on our last little impromptu trip we were heading up highway three now we're going the other direction kind of north-ish on highway five or the coca hola. One thing that I'm really loving about this trip is we have no mobile signal right now but I got wi-fi all thanks to Starlink. Yeah our friend Tom gave us this great tip about just putting Starlink on your dash so until we get our new mount which is coming soon that's a pretty good solution. Thanks Tom. Hey guys all right we got two pretty big hills coming up the first one isn't too bad it's kind of not too steep and drawn out but the second one is called the smasher and it's super steep so keep an eye on your engine temperature and feel free to drop back if it gets too warm. So we made a little bit of a rookie mistake here getting to Merritt. Do you see that gas level friends? We coasted into Merritt on fumes I thought we had lots of gas left from our last trip but yeah we cut it a bit close. I asked Jay like coming down the hill if we were going to make it into Merritt and he said I don't know and I said well what's the range and he said I don't know it stopped counting. I think we had at least another 20 kilometers or so. Oh we had tons of gas I only put 80 liters in I think we have a 100 liter tank could have gone forever. A stop in Merritt would just not be a stop without a stop for the Kukuli Cafe. Do we want to be near the dock for the day use? Maybe those two sites over there might be better. Hey guys so what were you thinking? We were thinking of just doing a little short loop here and then checking out the other side before we decide on a site. These two look good. Oh yeah I think these two are it. I think we're gonna do keep going to check. Oh these ones might be better. Yeah these two right here. Yeah they're connected. Why don't you back into the one that you want and then we'll take the other one. Okay so we've just arrived to Herman Lake Recreation Site and it was a little muddy getting in here. Our brand new running boards are currently not usable and the mud even on the handle. I think we have to give the van a little bit of a bath. Like I can't even close the door. But it's pretty beautiful. What do you think Andy? It's looking great. We've got a beautiful little beach, picnic table, some pine cones. Kind of random. This is what I wanted. Sunshine. So nice. So we have to come up with a name for our van and in our last video we had um well we came up with the suggestion of The Cow. The Cottage on Wheels. And we've had a whole bunch of other recommendations as well such as Obi Van Kenobi, Lavash, The Milky Way, Bessie. I liked that one because it's a cow name. Vincent Van Go. There's another one. Oh we were thinking of calling it Kevin because the name of our channel Home A Roam is a play on Home Alone. Kevin. Kevin. Sorry Kevin. Vanna White. I don't know. What do you guys think? It's a lot of options. I know. I'm liking the Kevin now. Kevin? Yeah. Kevin. Vincent Van Go. That one's cute. I like that one too. It's very clever. We've put it out actually on our um social media as well for people to vote. Okay so so far Obi Van Kenobi is in the lead. Actually no it's tied between Obi Van Kenobi, Bessie and The Cow. I do not like The Cow so I really hope it doesn't win. So I don't know. We need to put out to our viewers though like the whole Kevin. I feel like Secret Lake is not that much of a secret. Well this is pretty nice. Here comes Zeus. Oh sweater came off. It's getting nice and warm. You warm yet? I took my mitts off. All right folks guess what we have this time. We are safe. Can't even get it on. Thankfully it didn't last too long. How's Zeus doing? He's enjoying the fire. There we are. We needed it. Yeah hot dog time. All right I've gone kind of heavy on the condiments. That's the way I like it. Looking good. Time for bannock on the fire. Very traditional. Is it? I don't know. Probably. I just meant that indigenous people probably cook them over a fire. In a pan or on a stick. Yeah you can like wrap the dough around a stick and cook it on the fire. Oh yeah that's how you made it. I made it in a pan. Yeah I think we might have to try some of this this season. We need more fire cooking. Do you want me to check yours? Oh yeah they're probably getting... Be careful. Watch yourself. Do you want to scare them? They look so good. You want me to grab it from this side? Oh there you go. Oh boy. This is why I have to crop out most of what Andy says and just put like music over it. Oh those look good. Well good morning. We are going to take you on a camp tour. Let's go. Check out what Harmon Lake has to offer. We're here with Hannah and Andy on sites eight and nine in the east campground. There's also a west campground. I'll show you that later. There's quite a few little gophers around. A bunch of their little hills in here. They've got outhouses scattered around the park. You probably know what an outhouse looks like but let's show you anyways. There you go. So if you come in the east entrance you can take a right to sites 13 to 32 over that way or you can take a left to sites 1 through 12 which is where we are over that way. You can see there's a nice map. It tells you where you are, where all the campsites are. There's also a hiking loop through the interpretive forest. It can take you to a secret lake. Oh and then so this is the the east entrance. If you continue on Kettle or on Cane Valley Road a little bit you'll come around to the west entrance and there's a few sites in there as well. So the way it works here is you show up, you pick a campsite, everything is first come first serve. It's $15 a night. The camp host will make rounds a couple of times throughout the day and to collect payment. They also sell firewood for $10 a bin and you're limited to six people on your site. You're limited to one motor vehicle per site. Additional vehicles are $7.50 a night and actually if you're over 65 you only pay $7.50 a night for your campsite. Checkout time is noon and you can only stay for up to 14 days. Now the other thing that I think is really cool at this campsite, I don't know if you can see them behind me on the hill here, but they have equine sites. So if you ride horses and your horse can be trailered you can come and camp and they've got paddocks up here on the hill for you to be able to keep your horses contained not in their trailer. There's tons of little trails too around here in the forest. We've seen a couple of deer as well. There are also some ranches with cattle so you might hear some mooing every once in a while which was pretty cool. And on the trail through the interpretive forest back there behind me you might see some cow paddies so just watch your step. Also here at this front entrance for the east entrance they have a day use area with a gazebo, a couple picnic tables, and a boat launch. There is fishing in this lake, apparently trout. It seems to be a pretty popular spot for fishing. We've noticed at least half a dozen boats out so far and the lake actually continues around that corner over there so it's a good it's a decent sized lake. Fun for paddleboarding, for fishing, for canoeing. Now the top sights. I would say anything along the water. The sites that we are on down here at the end are absolutely primo. We've got a nice little gentle slope to the lake, got a tiny little beach for ourselves, and we get this stunning view of the whole lake. There's a lot of sites down there as well that also have some pretty nice views so you can't really go wrong. Even even the ones that aren't along the water that are up on the hill you still get a gorgeous view of the lake. Lots of gophers, lots of birds. When we first got here there were loons out there calling. We've seen some mallard ducks. The other thing about this wreck site is there is no garbage pickup so you pack in and you pack out all your stuff. As well there's no hookups obviously. There's no dumping station so be prepared for that. Maybe map something out on your way in or out for filling up or getting rid of your grey tank and black tanks. We're lucky we don't have a black tank to deal with anymore with our composting toilet some might call them. So it's basic camping. It's $15 a night in a most beautiful setting. Beautiful hills, trees, wildlife, lakeside. We also just want to give a shout out to Love Camping BC who gave us the tip on this wreck site. They recommended it to us in a comment from one of our last videos and we are so glad we checked this out because it's beautiful. I think we'll be back. The van was really a mess from all that mud but don't forget it still needs a name. Let us know your favorite in the comments below and we'll see you next time. No, I'm gonna start over. Okay. It's dangerous putting it on the skewer. All right, take two for the intro. Use this one please. Oh, hold on. We got fire now? Oh, that's a good blooper. The little groundhogs or groundhogs not groundhogs. We are coasting into fumes. Coasting into fumes? Coasting on... I'm gonna restart. 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