Wenas Wildlife Area Snow Wheeling
Hosted by All Wheelers Off Road Club
Report by Clay Graham / CegPics.com
On Thursday December 30th, 2010 we met up with three rigs at the Sheep Company Road entrance of the Wenas Wildlife Area for some snow wheeling. The drivers on this day were Havo in his Toyota, BlindPilot in his TJ and myself “Ceg” in my CJ5. Havo was our trail boss on the run. We made it up to the towers and back down through some deep snow drifts and icy roads. A long the way we saw a few herds of elk and some of the guys saw a coyote. The sky was blue so we had a great view of the valleys and the mountains. Both Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams could be seen.
Two of the three rigs had some mechanical failure but were able to drive back home on their own. My CJ5’s tranny started a loud noise as I was in third gear low range. I pushed in the clutch and the noise was gone. I started back off in first gear and found it was loud too. I hit second and all was good. I tried to go into third and could not get it into gear. It would just grind. On the way down Havo lost an u-joint cap on his Toyota. Havo had to run 2 wheel drive on out.
I would say this was the best wheelin’ I ever done at the Wenas Wildlife Area. The snow was great, my kids had fun and some good friends were there to share the adventure.
Later that night we met at Brats N’ Brews in West Valley to talk about our day over food and a few brews.
Here are some pictures of our day:
