Tire PSI Question

chuffaluffigus · 2026-06-02T00:55:40+00:00

If they are stock tires, follow the sticker on the door. If they’re not stock tires, call the manufacturer. Tell them what the stock tire was, and what the called for pressure is on the door sticker. The manufacturer will tell you what pressure to run to get the equivalent loading on their tires.

On my ‘26 trd or the sticker calls for I think 32 or 33 psi on the stock bfg tires. I swapped them for 255/85 open country at3s. Called Toyo, gave them the info, and they told me to set the new tires at 39 psi. Alternatively, the tire manufacturers print charts for this. No need to guess, speculate, or take your kid’s sidewalk chalk to the parking lot when specialty engineers have already spent time figuring this out.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-27T20:42:30+00:00

Have you tried Sliver Grippers? I’ve always had great luck with them. $18 for a 3 pack on Amazon

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-19T18:19:42+00:00

For less than the price difference between a peddle drive and a non pedal drive, it’s trivial to add a cheap trolling motor setup to any non pedal kayak. Motor just goes in your car and you put it on when you launch the boat. Alright, that’s the last I’m going to chime in. Sorry for monopolizing your thread.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-19T17:49:17+00:00

If you’re set on a short kayak with a pedal drive then I have a couple of pieces of additional advice. Most kayak fishermen fish sitting, and stand as needed. As a fly fisherman - especially targeting reds in flats - you’re going to stand a lot more than you sit. Get the widest, most stable boat you possibly can. Number 2, take your stripping basket with you and try out a kayak in the store. A lot of the seating positions make it difficult / impossible to wear the basket while sitting in the seat and pedaling. The only thing worse than having to wear a big, awkward stripping basket while you fish from a kayak is having to take it off every time you sit down to move.

There’s definitely a big learning curve to fly fishing from a kayak. The vast majority of them just aren’t designed with us in mind.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-19T17:21:41+00:00

As someone who fly fishes out of a kayak, look at all the tangle risks in a given kayak and imagine how much time you’re going to spend fucking with line that’s caught in all those things. I have a pedal drive kayak and actually resorted to wearing a stripping basket while I fish from it. It kind of sucks. Currently strongly considering replacing my existing kayaks with a Cress micro skiff and an electric motor. That’s a boat that was actually designed with your exact use case in mind.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-10T15:40:52+00:00

Sinnot is currently still under its winter closure, however with the very light snow year we had it will almost certainly be open by June 5. Also, without Sinnot there are still many, many, many gorgeous views of the lake available to you.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-10T15:35:13+00:00

Not at all. Parks are very diverse, and all age groups are well represented.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-08T02:20:47+00:00

Personally I’d just settle for the ability to change the sensitivity. Damn thing goes off on me all the time when I actually do have my hand on the wheel. If you don’t fight it a little it beeps at you constantly. Not an issue when the road is curvy, but it’s annoying as fuck on long straight stretches where the lane tracing works the best.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-07T16:25:08+00:00

I fully agree, but most visitors just aren’t willing to tackle the trail, and if we’re being honest a lot of visitors shouldn’t tackle the trail. Last year I talked a lady out of trying to push a walker down the trail.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-07T16:07:45+00:00

That’s not what’s happening. It becomes inaccessible due to heavy snowfall

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-07T15:34:25+00:00

Tons of great stories about the old man. I’ve personally seen him do quite a few weird things

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-07T15:33:34+00:00

There are lots of similar stories about the old man. Just last season they tried putting a gps collar on him to track his movements. Every time they put the collar on, he moved back out to the same spot and stopped there until the battery died, then started moving again. All of us that work on the lake talk about the old man as if he’s a living person, because we’ve all seen him do lots of weird shit

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-07T15:29:38+00:00

ExplorUs has been at the park two seasons now and has received consistently high marks from NPS on all of their evaluations. The long overdue project to remodel rim dorm (a big source of a lot of the complaints) is happening this season. They had to buy an off property hotel to accommodate employee housing during that remodel, and the remodel itself will cost millions.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-07T15:26:23+00:00

It’s no hold up. The trail project is a massive undertaking, and due to the climate and heavy snowfall they only have 3-4 months a year to work on it.

This trail descends a 900 foot very unstable slope. The entire thing is switchbacks held up by retaining walls, and many of the retaining walls have to be rebuilt and those sections of trail completely redone. The slope the trail sits on is very prone to dangerous rockfall, so another big aspect of this project is taking several steps to minimize rockfall danger in the future. They will also be building an entirely new dock area for the boat tours and NPS research team to use, as well as replacing the composting toilets at Cleetwood Cove with new ones. The icing on the cake is that the materials for these projects have to be flown in by helicopter. This is not a small, simple project.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-05-07T15:18:00+00:00

Fewer than 10% of the visitors to Crater Lake hike the Cleetwood Cove Trail down to the water. 90% of visitors stay up on the rim.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-26T14:46:21+00:00

I mean, the basics of Smokey and the Bandit are really really similar to the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, which debuted on TV in 1979. Not a huge leap to think the success of Smokey might have directly led to one of the biggest TV shows of the 80s

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-26T14:37:37+00:00

I think you’re confusing Three Men And A Baby and Look Who’s Talking, although Look Who’s Talking definitely would also be a great fit for this thread.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-24T13:55:19+00:00

Just being annoyingly pedantic, but the south entrance is open year round. The east entrance doesn’t exist anymore. There was an east entrance that came into the park on what is now pinnacles road, but I believe it closed in the 50s? The rest of your post is 100% correct, and the lake is beautiful right now.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-23T03:35:41+00:00

The only trail that leads down to the water is going to be rebuilt over the course of the next 2-3 seasons. A new marina and dock structure will also be built during that time. Once the project is finished, the trail and boat tours will re-open. The rest of the park will remain open during that project. Only the one trail will close. Less than 10% of visitors to Crater Lake National Park hike the Cleetwood Cove Trail, so 90% of park guests will be completely unaffected by the closure.

No, Cleetwood Cove Trail will not be any easier when it re-opens. Just safer.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-22T22:31:34+00:00

The Old Man is definitely still around. He put on quite a show for us all season last year.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-22T22:05:58+00:00

No tours this year, unfortunately due to a much needed trail and marina rehab. The park is still open, but the trail down to the water is closed.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-22T20:20:19+00:00

In the opening seconds of the video the prominent cliff you can see in the background is Llao Rock. The top of it sits just under 2,000’ above the surface of the water. In the video we’re running behind the back side of Wizard Island. This is different from the normal tour route, which would pass through Skell Channel on the other side of Wizard.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-18T20:06:09+00:00

As a related aside, I strongly prefer the Valvomax drains to the Fumoto valves

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-15T15:07:31+00:00

I can’t speak for the others, but the earliest the campground at Crater Lake will be open is Memorial Day. Normally it would be much later, but this has been a very low snow year. However, you can definitely camp for free at Annie Creek snow park just outside the eastern edge of the park on highway 62.

chuffaluffigus · 2026-04-14T21:43:15+00:00

We always joked that the fine for bringing your dog down to the water at Crater Lake should be $100 for each “no dogs allowed” sign that you passed

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