Seattle Area Maintenance and Meet

Another buddy of mine and I went up there last year, and found we were able to do most of the trails in a day, and were kind of surprised. We've only been there once and never since.... I might be willing to head up there again if we had a dedicated day?? It would be fun to get a gnarly trip done. The trail I just did in Evans Creek was probably the craziest one I've found in the PNW so far... I've still yet to try Elbe tho
 
I'm out for any hard trail runs. I can't afford to break anything as I just picked up another vehicle that's most likely going to eat up any extra money. But if you guys do some light trail runs, definitely keep me in the loop.
 
Yeah, not much going on Walker. I went a couple weekends ago and we wheeled every trail there in about 4 or 5 hours and that was with a lot of breaks on the trail and fixing stuff. Walker and a tiny bit of new Rieter is the only thing I've wheeled up here. How far is Evans Creek from Seattle? I've heard Tahuya sucks.
 
Evans is probably a good hour and a half to two hours from seattle itself, but so far it's the best trails I've found. I still want to do a lot of exploring over in eastern WA though... I've done quite a few of the Liberty trails, and now I want to try the Rimrock, Manastash, and more of the Naches area. Probably will hit that up heavily next summer.
 
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[MENTION=82154]GSPRunner[/MENTION] and I will be meeting Here at 10:00 AM on Sunday the 3rd.

We will be continuing up into the mountains for a little fun, hopefully in some snow. The LOA is this location HERE which provides an incredible view of Mt. Rainier. However, if it's indeed snowy, that will be a very dangerous destination, and I would recommend an LOA of HERE.

Time permitting, I would really like to try and make it to this lake HERE. When I was out there a few weeks ago it looked interesting, and I imagine would make some GREAT pictures for the first snow.

Terrain is managable by a stock 4Runner/Tacoma (probably even in 2wd) weather permitting. Surface condition is a fairly well maintained forest service road (FSR). Chance of pin-striping is nil, unless you go off the FSR in one of the few spots where you can test out your suspension a bit. I cannot speak for the road going to the little lake as I have never been.

Sorry for the short notice. =)
 
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Here's the forecast for SNOW. Come on.

NOAA Forecast
 
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Here's the forecast for SNOW. Come on.

NOAA Forecast

Trust me. We want to come out and play. Just don't think it's going to happen tomorrow.
 
Trip report? Photos?

Trip report was this: Just a little bit of snow and ice up top. Was plenty cold, just not a lot of precip. Best part of the day though was when we were airing back up towards the bottom, there was a couple trails off to the side of the road that had been carved out over time. They were muddy, and there was a few holes here and there that required some skill to maneuver around, but this group of 4 trucks(stock 1st gen, stock 4th gen, stock LR Disco, and lifted newer G. Cherokee) pulled up and decided to navigate through these trails. Any of these trucks could have easily made it when using the correct line, but it was like they've never been offroad before. They all looked like a bunch of hipsters from Seattle, one looked like Clay Aiken, one was wearing a jacket made for a little kid that made it so his gut was hanging out. Either way, the only truck that made it was the Cherokee. I should have filmed it, it was truly awesome. Anywho, here's a couple pics.
 

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Will be interested in joining next time

I wish I read this thread earlier and I could've joined. I liked the fact that you mentioned that a stock 4Runner can do it. Mine is as stock as you can get but I wish to do lifts in the future. So, did you make it to the lake as you planned? How is the view of Mt. Rainier in this route?
The reason why I asked is because I'm a nature/landsacape photographer and I would like to find some spots to take a picture of the mountain, especially near a lake where there is a good reflection.

Trip report was this: Just a little bit of snow and ice up top. Was plenty cold, just not a lot of precip. Best part of the day though was when we were airing back up towards the bottom, there was a couple trails off to the side of the road that had been carved out over time. They were muddy, and there was a few holes here and there that required some skill to maneuver around, but this group of 4 trucks(stock 1st gen, stock 4th gen, stock LR Disco, and lifted newer G. Cherokee) pulled up and decided to navigate through these trails. Any of these trucks could have easily made it when using the correct line, but it was like they've never been offroad before. They all looked like a bunch of hipsters from Seattle, one looked like Clay Aiken, one was wearing a jacket made for a little kid that made it so his gut was hanging out. Either way, the only truck that made it was the Cherokee. I should have filmed it, it was truly awesome. Anywho, here's a couple pics.
 
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Last minute snow run happening. Don't think there will be enough people to be an open/open on 30" highway tires run.

Details are here: NW-Wheelers Forums

Short version is: Twin Lakes tomorrow morning off of HWY 542. Forecast shows lots of snow tonight.

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d174536!2d-121.6755292!3d48.8028913!4m32!3m20!1m4!3m2!3d48.38473!4d-122.33126!6e3!1m4!3m2!3d48.9081337!4d-121.6976243!6e2!2e0!3m8!1m3!1d674060!2d-122.196808!3d48.704557!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5m5!5m2!13m1!1e1!13m1!1e1!7m4!11m3!1m1!1e1!2b1&fid=0
 
[MENTION=83356]rideexileex[/MENTION]

Last minute snow run happening. Don't think there will be enough people to be an open/open on 30" highway tires run.

Details are here: NW-Wheelers Forums

Short version is: Twin Lakes tomorrow morning off of HWY 542. Forecast shows lots of snow tonight.

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d174536!2d-121.6755292!3d48.8028913!4m32!3m20!1m4!3m2!3d48.38473!4d-122.33126!6e3!1m4!3m2!3d48.9081337!4d-121.6976243!6e2!2e0!3m8!1m3!1d674060!2d-122.196808!3d48.704557!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5m5!5m2!13m1!1e1!13m1!1e1!7m4!11m3!1m1!1e1!2b1&fid=0

Ahhhh that is so tempting! The only bummer is that it's a good 2 hours+ just for me to get to Bellingham :/ you have any plans to hit hwy 2 anytime soon?? I have a craving for snow!!
 
Ahhhh that is so tempting! The only bummer is that it's a good 2 hours+ just for me to get to Bellingham :/ you have any plans to hit hwy 2 anytime soon?? I have a craving for snow!!

Get in the truck and lets go man!

The next time I will be out on RT. 2 will be December 7th. It's a Timber Tamers club run. We will be going to get Christmas Trees and will be family friendly run and it won't be anything crazy. I have to go to a couple meetings before I actually join the club. I've only been wheeling with them for 4 years now, so I guess it's about time. I don't get out to RT.2 to wheeling much anymore since it's a 2.5 hour drive to the snow. I make it to Reiter once in a while for work parties.

You should go tomorrow. Should be getting a couple feet of new snow tonight. :whipping2
 
NICE! Cant wait for it snow over here

First taste of snow!

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Hey I like your new wheels. Are those the new snow camo ones? lol

Man over here on the Olympic Peninsula they consider snow a bad four letter word, if you know what I mean. Every time I comment on how I cant wait for it to snow I get some stupid reply like, "go up to the mountains to play in the snow." :crazy: That would be cool and all for someone who is un-employed with an unlimited bank account. But some of us work and have a family and cant make it up to the mountains everyday, and I would like to play in the snow everyday. :rockon:
 
Hey I like your new wheels. Are those the new snow camo ones? lol

Man over here on the Olympic Peninsula they consider snow a bad four letter word, if you know what I mean. Every time I comment on how I cant wait for it to snow I get some stupid reply like, "go up to the mountains to play in the snow." :crazy: That would be cool and all for someone who is un-employed with an unlimited bank account. But some of us work and have a family and cant make it up to the mountains everyday, and I would like to play in the snow everyday. :rockon:

Ha, I was thinkin the same thing... snow version of those old solid chrome hub caps.

But more snow will be falling soon!

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