Riverside State Park ORV Area
By Clay Graham / CegPics.com
On September 22nd, 2010 I was in Spokane for a DOT conference where my wife won an award. I decided to take a drive out to the local ORV area to check it out. Here are a few pics I took of the park. I will have to wheel it another day when I have more time.
Here are a few photos of Riverside State Park ORV Area:
Spokane Road Trip
By Clay Graham / CegPics.com
On September 20th-22nd, 2010 we went to Spokane for a DOT conference where my wife won an award and had to classes.
We stayed at the Red Lion Hotel next to the Spokane River. While we we there, we went to the Norther Lights Brewery, Riverside ORV Park (See report), we walked Riverfront Park, saw the Spokane Falls, and had lunch at Chili’s before heading home.
Here are some pictures of our Spokane road trip.
PNW4WDA Region 4
Pick Up A Mountain
Report & photos by Clay Graham / Eastern Washington Adventures
At 8 AM on September 18th, 2010 we had the driver’s meeting at Jim Sprick Park for the Pick Up A Mountain clean-up.
Here are a some pictures of the event.
Drivers Meeting
The clean-up run.
Yakima/Kittitas Forest Watch aired down at Jim Sprick Park and drove across the road onto FS1701 to headed up the mountain.
Joining us on the run was three rigs from the Vancouver 4 Wheelers, one rig from Washington Virtual Jeep Club and hards91xj that stayed on the roads with his Toyota pickup so he would not get damage.
We stopped at the camping area at FS530 to pick it up.
We moved on up to the 4W694 trail head.
At 4W670 we drove down to FS1701 and then back up onto 4W694.
We stopped off at Funny Rocks to clean it up and let some of the Vancouver Wheelers play some during lunch.
We moved on taking 4W695 to Moon Rocks.
Moving on down the mountain.
Turning onto FS1701 we stopped to regroup.
At FS530, we turned up toward Bald Mountain. We turned down 4W675.
Down on FS1702 we regrouped before the long drive back down to Hwy410.
Back at Jim Sprick Park we found out that hards91xj some how rolled his Toyota off of a forest road.
He should have just took the trail and he would have gotten less damage.
Activities
At the park there were a lot of fun things to do.
The kids raced Jeeps.
There was a big raffle.
Corn shucking contest.
Divorce course.
Pot luck.
Some of our groups clean-up crew.
People took shelter from he rain for the raffle.
There was a dance after the raffle.
Sunday morning.
Guido looking for Rain-x. lol
The kids playing with the prizes they won the day before.
Sid won the Inspirational Award.
Pancake breakfast.
Volunteers cooking for a lot of people.
The forest is a cleaner place now.
This was a great event thanks to all who helped make it happen.
Trail 4W613 Work Day
Report and photos by Clay Graham / Eastern Washington Adventures
Around 10 AM Saturday August 28th, 2010 everyone met up at the Ahtanum Sno-park where the group was camped.
Sno-park bunny.
We headed up the Mid Fork across Darland and down to the Blue Lake trail where we stopped to fix the Darland Mt Sign.
Crawl Mama decided it needed some white paint.
We will have to come back and paint the brown part another day.
Next we took a break at Blue Lake.
We headed on up 4W615 and noticed someone had drove around the closed sign we put up at the bottom of a user made trail.
We drove up on top and saw the person ran over the closed sign near Blue Slide Lookout.
Some people do not respect the land or the volunteers that are trying to keep areas open.
We moved on down FS1020 and onto 4W613.
At Foundation Meadow we added some water bars since the trail was being wash away.
Woody packed the dirt with his YJ.
Just into the trees we added another small water bar.
And another trench to let the water run.
On down we made a drain where where a log dam was blocking the Spring/Summer run-off.
Once that work was finished we drove down to a bigger problem area.
Two stream crossings had to be rocked and the big mud hole blocked from use.
We lucked out with the rock being so close to this crossing.
Woody placed a big log into the mud hole with his YJ and with the help of others.
The next stream crossing wasn’t as close to the rocks.
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Down to fix the next mud hole. Volunteers worked to make the water flow.
Looks like it will work for now.
On down we had to cut a small log from the trail.
Near the bottom of Foundation Ridge we had to clean out another log dam.
We will have to bring more rock in at a later date.
Off to the bottom to turn around at the Lower Meadow.
Turning around at the Lower Meadow.
Heading back up I stopped to get get some pics of the tight area near the cattle guard.
Crawl Dad hooked his exocage on a tree and smashed the door.
We headed on back to the Sno-park.
This was a fun work day we a lot accomplished.
Thank you to all who came out to help.
Bethel Ridge Yellow Jeep Trip
Report by Clay Graham. Photos by D.J. Scadlock & Clay Graham / CegPics.com
On August 21st, 2010 after we ran the Little Rattlesnake Trail we had a little more fun site seeing around Bethel Ridge.
On Bethel Ridge we stopped to take in the view overlooking Rimrock. Across the way you could see Jumpoff Lookout with a powerful lens.
Down at Hwy12 we stopped to air up. We noticed people climbing the rocks across the river.
Waycrazy had to have his wife bring him some fuel.
This day was a lot of fun thanks to all who came.
Here are some pictures of the second part of the Yellow Jeep Trip:
Timberwolf Mountain
Bethel Ridge
Oak Creek
