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”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”Hangover Run Jan 2020
We did not know what to expect. The forecast was for warmer weather with the possibility of freezing rain. Please no freezing rain! We met up at the IGA in Darrington. As time passed more and more rigs showed up. When all was said and done we had 21. We had a short drivers meeting then the first group headed out. It was an interesting group with some very built Super Sammi’s, and a few others plus a full blown unicorn. That is right a CJ7. Anyone who wheels a CJ these days is a stud in my book. (of course I have no bias)
Continue reading “Hangover Run Jan 2020”Tonga Ridge Xmas Tree Run Dec 2019
Joe, Steve, Ken, Ryan and I all decided that we would meet up for breakfast at 7:30 AM in Monroe at the Buzz Inn. After breakfast we headed out to the trail to meet up with anyone else that planned to go. We got to the trestle around 9:10 or so and aired down. We waited until precisely 9:28 and everyone was asking what we were going to do and I said that since I was the leader that we shall go! We did a quick driver meeting and headed up the hill. It was just us 4 rigs at that time.
Continue reading “Tonga Ridge Xmas Tree Run Dec 2019”Clam Shack Build Oct 2019
For the past few years Operation Shore Patrol has been held at the Tidelands Campground in Copalis Beach WA. Dave, the owner of the campground has been really good to us and accommodating our group to the point of breaking some of the campground rules that are normally in force. So it was when Dave asked if there was any way he could get some help with building a new clam shack for guests there were several people from the Rainer Ridge Rams and the Timber Tamers that said they would be happy too. A date was set for Oct 12th when everyone would converge on the campground.
Continue reading “Clam Shack Build Oct 2019”Operation Shore Patrol Sep 2019
Keep in mind – it’s the trip, it’s the beach, it’s the friends, it’s the shared meal, it’s helping make the beach a cleaner place, it’s the jokes, it’s the fun, it’s the leg-pulling, the sound of engines, the heritage of wheelers being wheelers together – Operation Shore Patrol is overall – THE EXPERIENCE!
Continue reading “Operation Shore Patrol Sep 2019”Jeepcast Trophy Challenge Support Sep 2019
Given a choice of a romantic dinner at Skippers on two for one fish and chips night or spending the day at JTC (Jeepcast Trophy Challenge) Wendy chose to spend the day with me at JTC for our anniversary. All kidding aside it is the spending time together that is important and I can’t think of anything I would rather do than spend time with family. What an awesome day we had even if it was not a traditional anniversary.
Continue reading “Jeepcast Trophy Challenge Support Sep 2019”Gallagher Head Lake and Van Epps Pass Sep 2019
We scheduled this run a week prior and had 12 rigs signed up to go and ended up with 7 actually showing up. There were 3 meeting spots for this run. 7am at Bothell Shell station, where Travis in his red JKU and candidate Ken in his Tan TJ showed up to meet us. We then caravanned to North Bend to meet the rest of the crew, which was Moose and Mary in their TJ, Jon and Heidi in their JK, Curt and Wendy in their JKU. Hopping on the freeway we went… next stop Cle Elum to meet Chris in this Yellow XJ.
Continue reading “Gallagher Head Lake and Van Epps Pass Sep 2019”