Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures

Here are some new discussions on the pnwadventures.com forums in the past week:

Trip Planning:

Scouting The Whiskey Dick - May 16, 2008 [Friday] - A weekday trip to explore the Whiskey Dick Road Management Area just east of Ellensburg, Washington.

Papa’s Toys Tour, 05-10-08 - the 6th annual trip to Papa’s Toy Collection in Cornelius, OR.

Completed Trips:

Tracking Ice Age Floods - April 19, 2008 - The trip report from the previous Saturday’s road trip through the coulee country of Eastern Washington.

And of course, there are many on-going discussions.

Here are a few photos from Saturday’s (April 19, 2008) road trip through the coulee country of Eastern Washington. Complete trip reports are posted on the forum at Tracking Ice Age Floods - April 19, 2008.

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Originally we had planned to meet in Montesano, Washington on Friday morning, however, because of a paving project on the Wynoochee Road from Montesano to Wynoochee Lake, the location of the meet up was changed to the Taylor Towne restaurant just South of Shelton.

Attending was Ray from Edgewood (driving his Toyota 4Runner), Kevin (riding with Ray), John in his Jeep YJ Wrangler, Dick (riding with John) and Randy from Shelton (riding with me in my Toyota FJ80 Land Cruiser).

Our goals for the this rainy spring day were to:

• Locate the train wreckage from the 1961 film titled “Ring of Fire”. During the filming of the movie they set an old railroad trestle and some passenger rail cars on fire and dropped them into the canyon. (See Brians site at Georgia-Pacific No. 9 and Ring of Fire Wreck Site for a great write up of the details of the movie and the wreckage site.)
• Visit the Wynoochee Dam and Lake.
• Visit the High Steel Bridge over the Skokomish River.

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