Trip Report: Scouting the Whiskey Dick Road Management Area – 05.16.2008
Who would have thought that a Friday trip to the Whiskey Dick Road Management Area near Ellensburg, Washington would bring out more participants than most weekend trips.
Well Jerry (aka SoggyMountain) picked a wonderful day for a Backroad Drivers Northwest tour of the Whiskey Dick. Hands down, this was the warmest day of 2008 to date.
The meeting place that morning was the Bar 14 restaurant in Ellensburg. In attendance for the days trip was of course Jerry from Yakima driving his full size Jeep SJ Wagoneer; (and if I get the names wrong, please forgive and let me know to correct them) Phil and his son Travis from Newcastle, driving the white Ford Explorer; Paul from Tacoma driving the other Ford Explorer; Jim (stucky) driving the white Chevy Pickup (I forgot to ask where Jim was from); Trish and Tammy from Bothel driving a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon; John and Cindy from Monroe driving a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon; Sid from Renton driving his Jeep Wrangler, Peter and Don (I forgot to ask where they were from or if I did, I didn’t write it down) driving the Sportsmobile van; myself in my 80-series Toyota Land Cruiser; and Bill from Ellensburg who joined us for breakfast but had to supervise a fencing property today so he couldn’t join us.
Categories: Adventures Tags: 60-series, 80-series, Backroad Drivers Northwest, backroads, bohinkleman spring, bryant creek, caribou road, cayuse, chevy, colockum, colockum road, darrell f jones, desert, elk, ellensburg, fj60, fj80, ford explorer, gps, grave, gravesite, hedgehog cactus, jeep, jk, land cruiser, landcruiser, little bohinkleman creek, little brushy creek, memorial, northwest, outdoors, pacific northwest, quilomene, quilomene ridge, rollinger creek, rubicon, shrub-steppe, skookumchuck, skookumchuck ridge, sportsmobile, tj, toyota, trip, vantage highway, wagoneer, washington, whiskey dick, wild horse wind farm, wrangler
Quilomene Wildlife Area Overland Tour 07.22.07
After a nice peaceful night in a hotel in Ellensburg, Washington, we loaded up the Land Cruiser and headed out for a day trip to the Quilomene Wildlife Area.
Categories: Adventures Tags: backroads, brewton road, campsite, caribou road, colockum, columbia river, crescent bar, dry gulch, ellensburg, expedition, fj80, gps, green dot roads, land cruiser, landcruiser, little brushy creek, northwest, overland, perkins road, quilomene, tekison creek, tour, toyota, vantage, washington, west bar, whiskey dick, wildlife
Outdoor Photos 03.07
Outdoor photographs taken during the month of March 2007. Locations include the Puget Sound lowland forests, the upper White River, Crystal Mountain, Cle Elum Lake, Colockum, and the Columbia River near Vantage, Washington.
Categories: Photos Tags: cle elum lake, colockum, columbia river, crystal mountain, outdoors, photographs, photography, Photos, puget sound, vantage, washington, white river
Trip Report – Early Spring Outdoor Photo Adventure – Washington
With no real destination in mind, we packed up the Land Cruiser with camera gear and basic supplies (and of course the dog) and headed to Eastern Washington for a day trip. Locations incude Cle Elum Lake, Colockum Wildlife Area, Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, Wanapum Dam, and the Columbia River near Vantage, Washington.
Categories: Adventures Tags: adventure, beverly, cascade mountains, cascades, ccc, civilian conservation corps, cle elum, cle elum lake, colockum, columbia river, ellensburg, fish, fj80, forest, ginkgo, land cruiser, landcruiser, levering, park, pse, puget sound eneregy, railroad, ronald, roslyn, snoqualmie pass, toyota, trip, vantage, wanapum dam, washington, wild horse, wildlife, yakima
