2010 Eastern Washington Off Road Meet & Greet
Report and photos by Clay Graham / Eastern Washington Adventures
On Saturday August 7th, 2010 we had our annual Eastern Washington Off Road Meet & Greet.
This was a great time again this year thanks to all who came. Here are a few pics.
2010 Ahtanum ORV Trails Clean-up
Report and photos by Clay Graham / Eastern Washington Adventures
On Saturday July 24th, 2010 we met at the Sno-park for the Ahtanum Trails Clean-up hosted by Eastern Washington Off Road & Yakima/Kittitas Forest Watch Assoc. with cooperation from the DNR. We had 40 volunteers.
Some were with these groups: Eastern Washington Off Road, All Wheelers, Yakima/Kittitas Forest Watch, Insanity Fab, Jeeping Nomads, Outlaws, Yakima Ridgerunners.
Thank you to all who helped make the Ahtanum State Forest a cleaner place.
Here are a few pictures:
My kids all raced to get trash to win the scavenger hunt Crawl Mama put on.
Odo picking up trash.
After the clean-up we had a potluck.
On Sunday we took a run up to Darland Mountain.
Here is a shot of Mount St. Helens.
The next stop was a Blue Lake.
Ahtanum Camp-out with Trail Work Runs
Report and photos by Clay Graham / Eastern Washington Adventures
This is a report of a few days; July 21-23, 2010
DAY ONE –
On Wednesday July 21st, 2110 members of the Yakima/Kittitas Forest Watch Association set up camp at the Sno-park.
Woody, Test Dummy and I took a Quad/Bike ride with Greg from the DNR.
Here we are at the DNR Camp getting ready to go.
We took Jackass road on up. We stopped to regroup at the View Point overlooking Rimrock Lake.
We took 4W613 down Foundation Ridge stopping at the future work needed in a few areas. At the bottom we took Grey Rock Trail back up looking at some other areas that needed some work.
This bridge was tight for the big quads.
DAY TWO –
We took a trip up Sedge Ridge.
Here is Foxracer going up the Rocky Climb.
Woody.
Here we were pulled off waiting for all to top the climb.
Heading on up the trail.
We stop for a short break.
On up the trail we stopped at the Cutus Hole Vista.
We head back around and then up to Darland Mountain.
Here we stopped at Blue Lake.
Back at camp others showed up.
Foxracer and HavoJr finished painting the Dome Peak Signs Phantom-309 made.
DAY THREE –
We headed up the North Fork and onto the Blue Lake Trail.
We moved two Green Dots post into their proper places.
Guido adding a fresh Green Dot.
On up around the corner we replace a Green Dot Marker that had been shot to pieces.
Next we replace a Green Dot Marker on the gate keeper hill climb.
Next we moved the next marker farther off the trail since people had ran it over.
Up at the Blue Lake Trail/4W615 intersection we moved the Forest Service marker into a safer place since it too was being hit. We added a new Green Dot Marker since the old one was broken.
Up at Blue Slide Lookout we stopped for a break.
Heading down FS1020/Jackass Rd. we stopped to replace the Green Dot Markers at the Short & Dirty trail intersection.
Turning off onto 4W613 we replaced the Green Dot marker.
Coming down the tight area of 4W613.
We stopped to unblock a trail drain.
Bubz wanted to help.
Down where Grey Rock meets 4W613 (Lower Meadow) we placed a new Green Dot Marker in a safer place.
Up at the Dome Peak turn off we put the trail signs Phantom made back up we took down to paint.
We stopped at Strobach Mountain Vista for a break.
At the 4W613/Strobach Trail intersection we placed two Green Dot Markers.
Down the Strobach Trail we replace another Green Dot Marker.
Here on the Strobach Trail we had to moved a tree since people had started a by-pass around it.
On down the trail we replace one more Green Dot Marker before heading back to the Sno-park.
These days were a lot of fun thanks to the people who came.
This ended the weekday runs. See Ahtanum Trails Clean-up for weekend reports.
A special thanks goes to Phantom309 at Helliesen Lumber for making the Dome Peak signs, thanks to DirtyBill for the sign paint, thanks to Havo for the new sign hardware and thanks to the volunteers for coming out to help.
Rimrock 4×4 Run
Report and photos by Clay Graham / Eastern Washington Adventures
On July 17, 2010 we met up on FS1202 and unloaded the trail rigs for the Rimrock 4×4 run.
We first hit trail 4W609. There was a lot of by-passes, unmarked trails and deep ruts.
The dry flat part of the trail were a challenge to get through with my aired down 33s. I had to stay out of the ruts since I was dragging diffs.
Havo
Waycrazy
We came up on a nice hill climb. The Tweety Jeep walked up with ease.
I was parking when Havo came up. Next was Waycrazy.
We watched Waycrazy’s front tires leave the ground a few times.
Sorry about the bad pic.
Sparky74CJ’s turn.
Sparky74CJ’s rig walked up pretty well.
Dirty had fun taking the harder lines up.
On up the trail we found a tree down across the trail so Havo cut it and we moved it.
Here we stopped to regroup.
Some how we came down 4W608. We turned off and took 4W610 to FS1202. At this point Sparky74CJ and Waycrazy headed back to their tow rigs.
We headed up to FS1201 then ran the upper part of 4W608.
At this point and had a choice of running off camber or up this deep rutted chute.
Since my 33s were not tall enough, I took the off camber trail around. Havo and Dirty drove up the chute.
Here comes my Co-pilot. He was out taking pics.
Havo working it.
At the top of 4W608 at 4W613 we found someone left a campfire hot in the trail and there trash.
We had to pull out the trash to let it cool before picking it up.
I took some pics as the trash cooled down.
After we got the trash picked up and campfire out, we moved back down 4W608.
There is one spot on the trail that has a tree of many colors.
My back tire came off the ground and I use the rain gutter to stop the XJ from flopping.
Havo was telling me to turn and he didn’t see a big rock he drove onto causing him to flop over.
HavoJr had a hard time getting out.
Dirty winched Havo’s rig back onto it wheels.
Now it was Havo’s turn with the tree of many colors.
On down the trail we turned off 4W608 and onto 4W608A coming out at Long Lake.
You can see Havo’s new carnage.
We stopped for a short break at Long Lake.
This was our last stop before running the forest roads back to the tow rigs.
This was a very fun trip thanks to all who came.
4W613 Work Party
Report and photos by Clay Graham / Eastern Washington Adventures
On Saturday July 10th, 2010 we met up on Foundation Ridge for the second 4W613 work party on 2010. Here are the pictures of the work day.
ORV Trail Maintenance Crew camp at the Ahtanum Sno-park.
Heading up Jackass road near the view point we found a tree down in the road.
Removing Green Dot from closed road.
Moved the Green Dot to the open road.
Removing a broken Green Dot marker from closed road.
We turned down 4W613 to block off a mud area.
HavoJR working to keep the water from coming onto the trail.
Guido cut some down trees so we could use them to block the mud hole.
BlindPilot winched the logs into place with the help of the other volunteers.
This log took two winches to move. Guido joined BlindPilot winching.
The mud hole is now blocked off and the water flows beside the trail.
Moving down the trail we found there was a lot of snow.
This area here was very challenging. Some had to winch up. BlindPilot pulled my CJ5 through the bad area.
Waiting for their turn.
Craigen’s Swappers did well.
Moving on down 4W613.
We came upon an area where the stream was blocked and water was running onto the trail.
We worked to get the water to flow the right way.
Bubz did a great job helping dig.
The water now flows next to the trail again.
We moved on up to the Dome Peak Trail to pull the sign to take back and repaint.
Once the signs were loaded we moved on.
Here we regrouped.
BlindPilot moving a tree from the trail.
At Strobach Mt. we stopped to put the signs back up that we pulled down to paint two weeks before.
The kids ran and played as we worked.
My co-pilot Bubz was tired.
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The signs are back up. We plan to bring touch up paint on the next work day.
We took 4W613 toward Louie Way Gap.
Craigen took on some damage in a tight area.
Down at Nasty Creek Corrals we aired up and parted ways.
A special thanks goes to Phantom309 at Helliesen Lumber for making the Dome Peak and Strobach Mountain signs, thanks to DirtyBill for the sign paint, thanks to Havo for the new sign hardware and thanks to the volunteers for coming out to help.
