Post up some shots of your T@B set-up at the camp site! #3

We stayed for 3 nights this past week at Douthat, one of our longtime favorite VA state parks in the Allegheny Highlands.

Here we were at site 9, with a nice overlook to the creek in the valley below the damn..

And another shot from a different angle..

It seemed that everywhere we looked, there was spectacular color..

So, we couldn't have timed this trip any better!  But alas, with all the good things, there sometimes come some bad ones..

On our first night it got very cold, like 38°, but our Alde kicked in and kept us toasty.  That is, until about 3 am when I was awakened by assorted noises coming from our Alde..

When I sprang to my feet, I knew it was a glycol leak when my feet got wet & warm.  I turned the system off, but by then we already had a half gallon of glycol on the floor.  I'll follow up in another thread with more details on what I found, cause, fix, etc, but I have only myself to blame.  Cleaning up at 3am was no fun,but fortunately we had enough old rags on hand.  The rest of the night was too cold for me, even with 3 or more layers, and by the next day I realized I had a cold & sore throat as we drove for an hour down to Salem to pick up a couple jugs of glycol at Tonie's.

After getting the Alde tightened & re-juiced, we toured some of lake-side scenery..

The next day we took a 30-min ride farther west to the Covington, VA area to see the spectacular Falling Springs waterfall..

One of my favorites & 70+ ft tall.

Finally, we celebrated having a warm Alde & I put up the party lights..

Now, if I  can just kick this cold!

10/30/23: PS:
After our our return, I realized yesterday that I still wasn't well enough for general anesthia (cough, sore throat, headache, low grade fever, conjunctivitis, nasal congestion, watery eyes) so cancelled my colonoscopy for tomorrow.  That's a relief, as I want to 100% for that procedure.
As far as our Alde issue, I can provide a bit more info, since I found this photo I took of the problem..

Like the leak I had last spring from a rear convector where I used this same heat shrink tubing with high temperature glue coated inside, these connections at the U-shaped tube joining the front ends of the two passenger side convectors had no provision for a physical barrier that would prevent the U-tube from sliding forward if the glue became too soft to hold. 
What I also realized, from an engineering standpoint, the fluid flowing through the U will apply a constant force at the end of the U,  thereby pushing/pulling it loose from the end of the pipes.
Since I had already coated all the aluminum pipe stubs with epoxy sealant, I figured we'd be ok without any heat-shrink tubing, but double clamped.  Indeed, we finished our next 2 days with good heat & no incidents.  However,  I feel like it wouldn't hurt to fasten an L-shaped metal bracket inside the removeable cover over those side convectors.

PPS:
Feel free @ScottG to move this last part about my failed convector fix somewhere else or let me know where.  Or I may do it if I find an appropriate spot.

PPPS, (7-5-2024):
About the above-mentioned L-shaped bracket idea to prevent the U-hose from slipping off the pair of convectors, I finally got around to it..

Just 2 very short screws plus a small L-bracket.  (Careful, because the other side of the wood is the exposed side of the cabinet under the seat.)