Hey Neilan where are you? I'm just off sunset by he WECU.
We should get a whatcom wheeling trip together to meet each other.There are some, but not many places left here to go 4xing in the county.

 

and it is funny how something like a pine needle can stop 5k lbs of beautiful truck from destroying my landscape

 

ya it doesnt help that my gas gauge doesnt work ya that threw me off....hey im down for whatcom county wheeling

 

what, wattora has a trip of 22 people going up to FS 70
here is the full detail
Difficulty Rating: < 3.0 But variable because of snow depth - Click Here for a Legend of Difficulty

Communications: CB Channel 4

Required Equipment: Click Here. Strong front and rear recovery points are REQUIRED on this run. See the Required Equipment page for details. A tow ball is NOT acceptable. Please dress warmly, be prepared with shovels, recovery straps and other equipment for a day of stucks in feet of snow. Toyota of Puyallup is providing lunch.

The current plan is to start up FS 70 and see if we can make it to FS 72 for the loop. Otherwise, depending upon the conditions, 72,73,74,75, are possible alternates. This run is suitable for stock 4x4's and first time drivers.

Saturday - 12/27/2008

Meeting Location:
9:00 AM
Safeway in Enumclaw
152 Roosevelt Ave E
Enumclaw, WA 98022-8241
Click Here for a Map

Please be on time as we will be leaving Safeway at 9:00.

Please RSVP below so we can get a count.

 

yeah thatl make it difficult
wheres whatcom county?

 

I live out in the Geneva neighborhood by lake Whatcom...its kind of funny we all have the same dark metallic 87 4runners here in Bellingham. Unfortunately I am working on becoming a mechanical engineer at Oregon State so I’m only here until January fifth...if some people want to get together after Christmas we could go play in the snow. I know a few places that not to many people know of but they are all snowed in pretty good right now. We could make a run up north fork and see how far we can get, maybe to the gravel pit? Any of you like shooting? The cold has kind of worked my runner over good but hopefully she will live again by the end of tomorrow...

 

whatcom county is the northern most county in washington, the biggest town is bellingham

 

ya that is crazy we all have the same colored 4runners...maybe it was the most common color, ya im down this week, my 4runner is mostly stock but I can sure try the hard stuff

 

my runner is only lifted 2 inches with mt's no lockers or anything, just some engine stuff. have you been up northfork before?

 

I have add a leafs and bfg mud also, actually does pretty good, no ive not been up there where is it

 

well it is about 20 minutes out highway 542 towards mt baker...it used to be epic wheeling with almost a hundred miles of trails everywhere but it is now shut down...but there are still around 20 miles of logging roads and a few gravel pits that are fun to play in. It probably has over a foot of snow right now so no garentees we could even make very far. Another option would be academy but there is a debate on whether or not it is still ok the wheel there...

 

what happened with academy

 

bassically way to many people were going there just to party leaving garbage and scraped cars everywhere after they started leaving the gate open. Way more people were wheeling there and things were getting shredded and erroding pretty bad. A few good guys a know where wheeling way up on the mountain on some of the more difficult stuff and when they came down there were police officers at the bottom. They said they had poeple who lived in the neighborhood watchign and peoples trucks were goign to start gettign impounded.

Later on while working at Les Schwab I met a guy who owns a majority of the property on the lower side. He said he used to not care but as things got worse it was just to big of a mess. The streams that his cows drank were running with mud from the top of the mountain. He claimed to have contacted neighbors and the police department.

I know many people who have continued to wheel there without a problem and there are no no trespassing signs or anything posted.

 

ya that sucks figures people trashed it bad...I havent been there in like over a year

 

there is actually some quality trails up there if you know how to them. There are actually trails that couldnt make it up with my old trail only rig. I dont really take my 4runenr up there anymore because i always try stuff beyond my 4runners abilty and get body damage haha.

Ya some people have no respect they have to leave the gate unlocked because they built one house up there. With the gate unlocked anyone can drive through without having to get through those minor obstacles. Me and my friend actually were night wheeling up there before and passed people having a small party. when we came back they were all gone but left a bunch of garbage and was about a 40x40 foot section of grass burning that took us like and hour to put out...

 

lol i like the instant thread convo you guys are having, priceless lol there is a chatroom here at yotatech =)

 

yeah everytime someone says somethin aboot washington everyone's like hey i live in washington lets get down to some threadjackin!

 

Who wants to go the peak RIGHT NOW!?

haha, im kidding, though i am bored as hell. I spent 5 hours swapin my pass side spindle out today with one i had on hand (how lucky am i?) ... Luckily the bushings are like new, that cv is tighter than a nuns ... woohoo.. so i HAD to take it out in the new powder for some testing and on the roads for some further testing =)

but now.. im bored..damnit!

 

algranger thinks it needs more testing
and arent spare parts just the best

 

its snowing and its dust on crust of ice...

heres some photos...



my bmw...


one of my trucks.