January 4th 2025. David In his JKU, Joe in his TJ, and myself in my JKU met up at the Sultan Chevron in the morning. We jaw jacked about the typical stuff, and the shenanigans to come for the day. After about 30 min or so we mounted up and attempted to merge on to US-2 100 yards east of the roundabout.
Continue reading “Snow Run Jan 2025”Pick Up A Mountain September 2024
Joe , Andy, Teresa and Nate left Marysville Friday morning to meet up with Curt in North Bend. Four rigs and 2 trailers headed out to Naches.
Continue reading “Pick Up A Mountain September 2024”Operation Shore Patrol Sep 2024
To compare Tamers to lemmings rushing headlong to the sea – would only be partially correct. In part – because lemmings really just move to new territories if their population necessitates more living space. Has nothing to do with mass rodent suicide. The only thing lacking reason Tamers might be doing on Operation Shore Patrol weekend – is to be rushing headlong into traffic – at any time of day or night – and still be foiled in their hope to get to Tidelands early and easily.
Continue reading “Operation Shore Patrol Sep 2024”Whipsaw Trail August 2024
On Saturday, August 31, Jeremy and I began the journey to the Whipsaw Trail located just outside Princeton, BC. Eric and Imseon joined us at the meeting point at Starbucks in Smokey Point with the sun shining brightly. We arrived at the Sumas border without a lot of traffic, we opted to continue on to Princeton and have a late lunch. Less than a 30 minute wait, waving both vehicles through very quickly on we went. Heading up to the steep hill climbs to Princeton, the CJ started vapor locking (new feature since changing out the gas tank and rerunning the fuel lines). But with pulling over and cooling down, we could move on and get going again.
Continue reading “Whipsaw Trail August 2024”WABCDR July 2024
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.
Continue reading “WABCDR July 2024”Liberty Fathers Day 2024
For a few years now Melissa and I have been hosting a Father’s Day weekend run to Liberty. We tend to go over mid-week in order to secure a campsite that can accommodate everyone as a group. Not to mention getting a few extra days to relax.
Continue reading “Liberty Fathers Day 2024”Trail Jam 2023 – Group 2
So this is my ‘quick’ attempt at a write up for the group I led at Trail Jam (Timber Tamers Group 2).
Continue reading “Trail Jam 2023 – Group 2”Hefty Haul Out and After Run
Thank you to every one of the Tamers that came out and made Hefty Haul out a success!!
Continue reading “Hefty Haul Out and After Run”Hefty Haul Out April 4, 2023
Clubs and users unite together showed up on Saturday April 15th for the annual Hefty Haul Out hosted by Region One’s Rainier Ridge Rams 4×4 Club at the Walker Valley ORV Park in Skagit County. We met at the lower gravel pit as base camp following ever so strategically placed RRR direction signs.
Continue reading “Hefty Haul Out April 4, 2023”Cabin Fever April 14, 2023
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.
Continue reading “Cabin Fever April 14, 2023”Reiter – Offroad 101 April 1, 2023
It was a beautiful day. Sunshine and 80 degrees…….Yeah right!! every time I get to Reiter it rains.
Continue reading “Reiter – Offroad 101 April 1, 2023”Sadie Creek 3/18/2023
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.Â
Continue reading “Sadie Creek 3/18/2023”Walker Valley March 18, 2023
A good day of sunshine and wheeling. There was 6 of us all together including Chad with his Dad, Antoine in a JLU, Dean in his JKU, and Nate is his JK on 40’s. After introductions, and a quick driver meeting, we headed off to the south entrance gate keeper.
Continue reading “Walker Valley March 18, 2023”North Fork Snow Run 2/18/23
10 rigs were able to make this run and go play in the heavy wet cascade concrete snow.
Continue reading “North Fork Snow Run 2/18/23”New Years Eve Run December 2022
Few people decided to ring in the new year with an all night snow run. Here are a few pictures from the event.
Continue reading “New Years Eve Run December 2022”Tahuya 11/26/2022
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.
Continue reading “Tahuya 11/26/2022”Tonka Toyz Event
Heidi and I entered Tonka Toyz Mudfest Event. The Chevy was fun in the mud drags Saturday and I got 2nd place in the Tough Truck on Sunday sporting the Tamers flag. They will be posting the event on their Facebook page.
Continue reading “Tonka Toyz Event”Gallagher Lake Run
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.
Continue reading “Gallagher Lake Run”Walker Valley – Travis’s last run.
Travis is moving out of state and so a group of Tamers got together with him for one last trip to Walker.
Continue reading “Walker Valley – Travis’s last run.”WYBDR scratch that WABDR June 2022
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.
Continue reading “WYBDR scratch that WABDR June 2022”Walker Valley Nov 2021
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 !!!!
Continue reading “Walker Valley Nov 2021”Evans Creek ORV Sep 2021
So as Travis might bring up in his report when we got to the lower parking on Evans Creek it was obvious that we had a lot of rigs and we discussed splitting the group up. I took volunteers that would be willing to run trails quickly and with as little spotting as possible.
Continue reading “Evans Creek ORV Sep 2021”Trail Jam Hosting July 2021 (Dave)
Representing for the Tamers as trails hosts at this years Trail Jam there were John, Jake, Sean, Rick, and Tammy and I (Dave). I may be a bit off on some of the details, this is all from my (flawed) memory and it was a long week, by the end details were running together.
Continue reading “Trail Jam Hosting July 2021 (Dave)”Trail Jam Hosting 2021 (John)
For the first time in several years, the Timber Tamers decided to sponsor and send a group of Trail Hosts to the PNW4WDA Trail Jamboree. For those not aware, this is an event that is held annually (well, at least when it’s not cancelled by a pandemic!) in July in the Naches Ranger District of the NFS, and is based out of Jim Sprick Community Park in Nile, WA. This year it was held July 8, 9 & 10, 2021. However, since the Trail Hosts act as trail leaders for this event, we actually arrived at Jim Sprick Park ahead of the event so we could pre-run the trails. And, was it ever an eventful week!
Continue reading “Trail Jam Hosting 2021 (John)”Walker Valley Feb 2021
There was a lot scheduled for Walker Valley this day, so I thought I would get up there and help in any way that I could. Now being a 2nd shifter the meeting time was a bit early for me so I set my alarm. Casey decided it was going to be too early to cold and too snowy so she was staying home..LOL I really didn’t think we would see very much snow. Oh how wrong I would be.
Continue reading “Walker Valley Feb 2021”Beckler Midnight Run Feb 2021
The snow storm was reported to be coming in Friday night at about 10pm. I decided to try to put together a run up to Beckler river rd after my swing shift schedule Friday night.
Continue reading “Beckler Midnight Run Feb 2021”Riders Camp July 2020
Day 1 – Wed
Last year instead of camping in the usual location we decided to try Riders Camp for the first time in a long time and things went well enough that we decided to camp there again this year. Melissa, Cassidy and I left early and were able to get to the campsite at 11:30am. You would think that in the middle of the week the campsite would be empty but there were only two spots with fire rings left and they were right by the road. Damn I had hoped for a better spot.
Continue reading “Riders Camp July 2020”Tahuya June 2020
Sorry there is not write up but there are a few pictures from the run to share.
Continue reading “Tahuya June 2020”Beckler Snow Run Feb 2020
What do you get when you take a Canadian, 5 jeeps, one Sammi, a lot of snow and some dogs. Apparently a lot of fun, no sleep, one very stuck jeep, many tow fees, a broken bottle and two wet dogs.
Continue reading “Beckler Snow Run Feb 2020”Tonga Ridge Jan 2020
With the weather report for the mountains calling for 1 to 4 feet of snow, I had to get a few people together to do a quick snow run. We met at the trestle at about 10:30 am. We were suppose to be there at 10:15 am but traffic was a little bit slow and then on the main road into to trestle there was a downed power line.
Continue reading “Tonga Ridge Jan 2020”