Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures

Join us in Naches, Washington to explore Forest Service, Department of Wildlife and DNR roads on and around Clemen Mountain. Clemen is actually a 4000′ high ridge that separates the Naches and Wenas Valleys and most of it lies within the Wenatchee National Forest and the Oak Creek Wildlife Area. It is not unusual to spot elk and big horn sheep on Clemen and sometimes in one particular area the deer are so plentiful it is almost impossible to keep count of your sightings.

Read more at Clemen Mountain Tour.

Day Two: August 11, 2007.

Daily Goal: To Drive from Babyshoe Pass (on FS-23 near Mt. Adams) to Cle Elum, Washington (I-90).

Map Reference:
Gifford Pinchot National Forest Map
Wenatchee National Forest Map

After a surprisingly comfortable night of sleep in the back of my 80-series Land Cruiser (with my dog Tareva right next to me), I arose just after daybreak to the awesome views of Mt. Adams and Mt Hood. This was my first attempt at sleeping in my FJ80. I initially had my doubts on how comfortable it would be, considering my height. My newly built cargo box, the back seat folded down, a plastic tub on the second row footwell and the front passenger seat folded forward and all the way to the dash provided a great support for my air mattress. All that I had to do to rearrange from the days trip was to move the ARB refrigerator to the drivers side and throw some of my bags in the front seats.
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