Introducing My New PNW Adventure Vehicle
After retiring my 80-series Toyota Land Cruiser and Jeep JLU Wrangler, I’m introducing my new vehicle for my Pacific Northwest adventures.
After retiring my 80-series Toyota Land Cruiser and Jeep JLU Wrangler, I’m introducing my new vehicle for my Pacific Northwest adventures.
Daily Goal: To Drive from Babyshoe Pass (on FS-23 near Mt. Adams) to Cle Elum, Washington (I-90) via Bethel Ridge and Manastash Ridge.
Today was going to be a very long day. Not only would I be attempting to reach my destination in Packwood, I would also have to include the drive from my home in the middle of Washington state to the southern border near Oregon to start the tour of the Washington Cascade Mountains. My goal was to complete the drive from the Oregon border to the British Columbia in four days.
For the past year, I’ve wanted to map out and drive an overland route through the Cascade Mountains of Washington state from the Columbia River near Oregon to the northern border with British Columbia.
After a night of camping along the Yakima River, my daughter and I 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. After a stop for a quad iced americano and to top off…