Posted in adventure on Dec 31st, 2011 No Comments »
The plan they proposed was to hit up Beckler for New Years’s. With a forecast of lows in the 20s and 70% chance of snow, it sounded like the perfect time to be outside. We headed up in the early morning and I was able to make easy contact on 2 meter with my bodge [...]
Posted in adventure on Dec 10th, 2011 1 Comment »
Headed up HWY2 to the Beckler Rd area to do a little “winch training” for Victoria, who wanted to improve her skills. I had left a MagPul magazine up there the weekend before so I figured why not go back and see if it was still there. Unfortunately someone had come and chainsawed up the [...]
Posted in adventure on Dec 5th, 2011 4 Comments »
So JG took a pass at getting his TJ going but no love. Looks like it’ll have to be towed out to the shop; his old alarm finally broke by “going off” and he can’t figure out how to disarm it. This set off the immobilizer. Sucks. From what I hear they did a real [...]
Posted in adventure on Aug 8th, 2011 No Comments »
I forgot to post the pics. Here they are.
Posted in adventure on Sep 12th, 2010 No Comments »
We will be having the cooking competition at the same location we did in 2007. There are two campsites near Skykomish, WA, off Beckler Road at 47°47’26.27″N 121°17’55.10″W. I will be arriving early to secure one of these locations. If you run out of pavement on Beckler Rd. you have gone too far.
Posted in adventure on Sep 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
Maybe a little bored and restless, we set out to find a place away from the city to see the stars. I originally thought to go out to the Naches Observatory but it’s pretty far (something like 180km?) and I am glad I didn’t. Instead, we headed up to that spot I had taken JG [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
With the rescheduled Maine Trains trip coming up, it was timely that Betty cracked a radiator. This is a common TJ problem as the radiators consist of plastic uppers and lowers bonded to a metal core. You hear about them cracking as little as 35 and 50k miles although 85 to 100k seems to be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Repaired the body damage more or less to Betty. Rather tha hi-lifting the fender back into shape, I used a floor jack and a pelican case and jumped up and down on the bumper a couple of times. It’s mostly pretty straight, I doubt you’d notice unless you were looking for it. The plastic fender [...]