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
Photos from the Scouting the Whiskey Dick Tour – 05.16.08
The photos I shot during the Backroad Drivers Northwest trip to the Whiskey Dick Road Management Area are now posted for your viewing. You can view them at Exploring the Whiskey Dick
Enjoy.
Categories: Photos Tags: adventure, outdoors, pacific northwest, washington, whiskey dick
Trip Announcement: Scouting The Whiskey Dick – May 16, 2008
Anybody who has Friday, May 16 available, we have a great off-road trip to the Whiskey Dick area near Ellensburg, Washington.
Categories: Adventures Tags: adventure, ellensburg, overland, trip, washington, whiskey dick
This Week in the Forums – April 21-27, 2008
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.
Categories: Forum Discussions Tags: cornelius, coulee, ellensburg, floods, forum, ice age, oregon, trip planning, trip reports, washington, whiskey dick
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
Whiskey Dick Wildlife Area Overland Tour 07.21.07
After a night of camping along the Yakima River, we got up early, broke camp and headed to Ellensburg, Washington to meet up with the Northwest Backroad Drivers group to explore the Whiskey Dick Wildlife Area just east of Ellensburg.
Categories: Adventures Tags: army, backroads, campsite, cayuse, columbia, communications, ellensburg, expedition, forest, gps, jeep, northwest, overland, park, parke creek, quilomene, river, skookumchuck, tour, vantage, washington, whiskey bay, whiskey dick, wild horse, wildlife, yakima
Whiskey Dick Wildlife Area Photos 07.21.07
Photos of an overland day trip on 07.21.07 to explore the Whiskey Dick Wildlife Area near Ellensburg, Washington
Categories: Photos Tags: ellensburg, expedition, overland, photographs, photography, Photos, pictures, quilomene, tour, washington, whiskey dick, wildlife
