In the Summer of 2005, the Faithwheelers will be hosting a tough truck style endurance challenge. We think this will be the ultimate challenge of vehicles and drivers with a twist. The challenge will tackle approximately 1500 miles over 7 days with highly varied terrain, and span Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The twist is that all vehicles have to be street legal.

We will be developing the format soon. The initial plan is 2-truck, 4-person teams. Teams will be given a variety of directions, including landmarks, GPS etc for different trails. There will be a night run, mud runs, sand, rocks, everything we can find in the Pacific Northwest. The timed sections will be offroad only so no freeway tickets. In fact, we'll try to make the entire trip off pavement except in towns for supplies.

All trucks will need 33" or larger tires, lockers, winch and roll bar or cage. All trucks MUST be street legal so no buggies etc. All teams will need to be totally self sufficient.

What I'm looking for right now, is other people that may have been involved in setting up competitions that can help with some individual ideas. We'd like each day to be a completely different/separate challenge. We can have a poker run, technical challenge, scavenger hunt etc. Sooo, we need some ideas about different offroad challenges.

The second thing we need, are some suggestions for places to go. I know the western Washington area pretty well, but I need Eastern Washington, Idaho and Oregon suggestions. I need anything anyone has on trail locations, descriptions, directions, etc. I'd like to have 7 separate areas that we can put into a loop.

I'll be starting at Evan's Creek running about 45 hours of trails, followed by a Naches Pass trip and finishing at little Naches, followed by another 3-4 hours of trails before calling it a night.

After that, I can see a early morning start, heading to the sand ORV park in Eastern Washington with a pre-planned track. After that. I need lots of suggestions. Even getting from places like Naches to the ORV needs to be interesting, no I-90 routes...

Please, feel free to give me suggestions, ideas and information. We'll have a date set up soon, registration and more information on our web site. I'll also keep posting her for those that are willing and/or able to participate in this type of challenge.

 

This sounds really cool

 

Does anyone know the name of the ORV park in Eastern WA that has a lot of sand dunes. I think it's Potholes or something like that. I need some info on that park if possible.

 

Never been there, but I think it is near Moses Lake.

 

Scott, are you up for an Evans Creek or Sultan Basin run when you get your next Saturday off?

It'll likely be a winch/lockers required run...

 

Never been to Sultan Basin, what is it like?

 

There are several trail in the Sultan Basin area. Shaw Lake Trail is closed currently. I THINK Highrider is officially closed, but still used. Lake Isabell trail is open and then there's Reiter Pit.

These are all pretty equal to Evan's Creek in terms of difficulty but it's a 90 minute drive to the trailhead from here :o(