Author: Rudi

The day started off cloudy and muggy.  The agreed upon meeting spot was the Enumclaw Safeway parking lot.  Evan, John V., Michael and 2 youngins, Gary T., Nate, Jesse and Debbie H., Malachi and Melissa, candidates Gary and Page, and of course, myself and Brenda.  After a brief run by several members to get last second snacks at the Safeway, we headed out on Hwy 410 for Buckley and the turnoff to Wilkeson.  Of course, you cannot have a Tamer run without a Tamer Turnaround, or in this case, just a Tamer Turn!  Just a slight navigational error by the Jeep Nav system (and I’m sticking to that story), a quick map read, and we just decided a small tour of some of Buckley’s historical district was in order, enroute to Wilkeson.

Group of the Tamers did a trip across a section of the Washington Back Country Discovery Route and had a great time doing it as you can see in the pictures.

This is a must do event.  The people are friendly, the Trails are fun and the raffle is good.  Cabin Fever takes place in the Northern Idaho town of Kellog. We booked a hotel at the Silver Valley hotel which has reasonable rates.  We have actually stayed there before.  Dan from the Tamers and I changed a cam positioning sensor in the back parking lot.  Not a fun project on a trip but thanks to Dan we knocked it out fast.   Thankfully no Engine code of death for this trip.

So we decided to call this a club run even though there were just the two vehicles. Jeremy and Noni in their CJ7 and Tammy and Dave in our LJ all camped at or near Sadie Creek for the weekend and though the club was invited seems like no one else could make it which was too bad. 

Few people decided to ring in the new year with an all night snow run. Here are a few pictures from the event.

Timber Tamers met at the parking lot at 9:00 am. The 10-vehicle lineup included: Dave F and his LJ, Jeremy and Noni in their CJ, John in his JKR, Eric in his new EV, Will and his Dad in the TJ, and Bill in his Toyota Pickup. Guests included Tony driving with Lexi (Noni’s daughter) in her JKR, Dave and Nikki in their JKUR, Jared and his wife Lindsey in their LJ, and Conner, Jared’s son in his Toyota 4Runner. Headed out at about 9:15 with Jeremy and Noni leading.

Most of us met at North Bend Safeway and convoyed to Cle Elum where we topped off the tanks and then headed out to the trail. We met up with Alan from Moses Lake at the cabin staging area, he had seen the post on the Tamers Facebook and decided to join in the fun.

Sometimes plans get changed or canceled.  Most of the time we try to work around things.  Two years ago we had to cancel our trip to Colorado.  A trip that Moose and I have been talking about for at least 8 years.  Last year many of our plans changed do to fires.   This year there was not one reason but many that caused us to cancel going to Wyoming and instead stay in Washington state.  For those who may not know South Montana and Parts of Northern Wyoming saw over 10 inches of rain.  This caused major damage to the trail system including the Morrison Jeep trail.  There were also many personal issues that caused several members to change their plans.  I guess that is life. 

I am sure at some point there will be a story to go with the pictures but one thing is for sure. There is a new owner for the cow bell !!!!