Posted in adventure on Apr 21st, 2012 No Comments »
I thought to head out to the Naches area after hearing that NF-7080 is open and clear. I wanted to see if I could get over from NF-70, even though there are reports that NF-70 is closed at Pyramid due to a wash-out, I’d be coming over from the west side. Unfortunately, I got stopped [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 16th, 2012 5 Comments »
Well, the weather was certainly cooperating this weekend, doubly so since I look outside right now and it’s raining. JG and I headed up to Beckler. One of the things I wanted to do is see if I could get into this other set of roads that looks like it’s west on the other side [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 7th, 2012 No Comments »
Beautiful day in the Seattle area today, hope everyone was able to take advantage of it. I know a lot of people were – I saw a ton of bikes out today. I even got a ride in, after the following mess; This morning I decided to head out to Beckler (since it looked sort [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
I happened to pass Beckler River Rd on the way up to Steven’s this weekend, and it looks like (at least from the highway) all the snow that kept me out in January is gone. The area is still around the snow line, though.
Posted in adventure on Apr 1st, 2012 1 Comment »
Props to X1 for his first time out. First day out ever, we got him riding Hogsback at Steven’s Pass by the end of the day.
Posted in adventure on Mar 31st, 2012 1 Comment »
This is supposed to be a story of a couple of anonymous riders hitting the 101 loop and working on corners, corners, and more corners with some straights thrown in for interstages. However, with a weather report threatening snow (and indeed some snow was found), that just didn’t seem like a productive idea. I can’t [...]
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 25th, 2011 No Comments »
You just have to be in the right spot, since I reason it’s always snowing somewhere. With an upcoming camping trip being planned and a lot of hypotheticals being thrown around about the suitability of some of the classic spots for early-winter camping I thought the simplest thing would be to just go and see. [...]
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 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
Picked up some recovery gear from Olympic 4×4 (first time I had been out there, up in Snohomish) and then headed down to North Bend and up NF-56 as the sun was going down. This used to be one of my favorite roads to drive up before they closed the last section down. Unfortunately, the [...]