North West BS Thread

I loved Chelan, i just dont want to deal with snakes. I guess i would have to do a road trip to decide if i prefer the ocean coast or beautiful lakes.

 

So perfect house, property and location with one snake would get a pass from you?
Does job location matter?

 

Yes,
Snakes dont mix well with my kids, dogs and spouse.

job, heck ill be retired.

 

Nice job keeping them happy.
Congrats on the retirement in sight. Chelan, Wenatchee, Leavenworth are all awesome Eastside towns with water close by

 

My buddy bought the new Jeep Gladiator today. He paid 62,000 to 68,000 all the bells and whistles. I am happy for him now there are two guys stuck in Hawaii that want to get back to thier family and rigs.

 

It is a lot but I will not give him shit on it no one needs someone doing that on day one

 

At least it gives you the transmission temperature! (I rented a car a few months ago, they gave me one, more of the base model tho).

 

Trip to Palouse falls today.

 

Spent the day washing and waxing then thunderstorm showed up and screwed up all the work.

 

Looks good

 

Was palouse falls still day use only. We were thinking about camping last but couldn't find if it was open to overnight didn't want to drive down and find out it was closed.

 

It's open for day only as of now. No camping. It was packed today. Never seen it that busy. All lower and upper parking areas were full.

 

Wow that is alot of people. Lyons ferry was busy last saturday but not that busy people must be itching to get out.

 

Kinda what it felt like. All the parks we stopped at today we're busy. Stopped at fishook, palouse, and one around Dayton I don't remember the name for a quick lunch we packed.

 

Wow that is alot of people. Lyons ferry was busy last saturday but not that busy.

 

Been out at Pacific Beach WA and hit up Lake Quinault today. Not too busy out on the coast.

 

You should have your blue beauty posing in some of these pictures!

 

Has anyone done the WA backcountry discovery route in their tundra? My wife and I are interested in doing it in mine, just don't know about trail width.

 

Hey guys. What’s new around here?

I can’t remember the last time I hung around the forum. Life is crazy busy right now and at the end of the day I’m too exhausted to pick up my iPad and check in.

We got away this weekend. First trip of the year and towing with the Tundra. Overall it went pretty good. The motor doesn’t have the stones my ecoboost did, but it does a good job. Think I will be getting a dirty deeds exhaust next year. That TRD system is stupid loud under heavy load.

Hope you all are staying safe and healthy.

 

Took a drive up to Mission Peak today, Washington enchantments in the background.
Happy 4th all!

 

Did two nights this weekend, one just NE of Mt. Rainier and the second 8 miles NE of Mt St. Helens. Awesome weekend and I'm always amazed by Mt St. Helens every time I see it.

 

A few summers ago I was at a visitors center that was 12 miles line-of-sight to the blast center. I asked, "would you have survived the blast at this spot?" She replied "it was 700º here then". So..................

 

Hey what’s going on guys? Got a long shot question but are there any HVAC or maybe sheet metal guys here? Got a quote to get some new B vents installed. Seems high but maybe not. Problem is I am running out of time as the work needs to get done next week during the new roof.
Just looking to bounce this number off someone that would know more then me.

 

Wow, it has gotten quiet around here. What's going on? Everyone out enjoying the summer?

I'm finally starting to dig out after 5-6 weeks of pure hell. Work went inverted on me, some chit when down in the family and I was taking a class that required a lot of my time. Top it off with some repair/gear problems on my trailer and it's been nothing but nut-punches for weeks. But, things are starting to clear up now and life is good.

You guys been enjoying your trucks? We're going camping in a few weeks and I needed to recon some campsites to make sure the trailer fit. We've got reservations on the weekends, but the weekdays we're going to hit up some possibly remote first-come, first serve sites. Took a day trip last Saturday to check it out and also to clear my head. Got to drive some trails and run down some forest roads. Truck did pretty good, but I expected the shocks to handle the axle hop better than it did. And the truck started to float at 55mph (hehe). Oh well, it was a lot of fun. Didn't get any pics of the scenery, but I was happy to finally put some real dirt (or dust) on the truck.

Then I went to a nice range to make freedom ring. That felt good too, especially since I was the only one there.

Day was 480 miles and 14hours of pure heaven.

Will post better pics when we get back...Hope you all are having a good week and staying healthy

 

Looking to hit the range soon, where's that one at? New muzzleloader shows up tomorrow. Traditions pursuit ultralight northwest magnum .50 call 30" barrel cerakote. Excited to get some powder through it and get it ready for elk this year. The blue beast could use some dirt therapy as well.

Things have been good here, no complaints anyway. Glad to hear from ya and hear things are looking up now for you!

 

Comet Neowise making an appearance tonight. Shitty cell phone pic. I just sent in my 5D Mark IV for repairs so it's all I got to work with.

 

Just outside Winthrop...I've never been into black power stuff, but it is a good way to go to get hunting sooner.

I need to find that...so may trees and mountains in the way. Darn Northwest living

 

Timing is debatable, but it's less pressure than during modern firearm season which is what I like best.

 

How's the drive there? I've lived here in the NW for most of my life and have yet to explore all these amazing place. You got anymore spots you can recommend for a stock rig?

 

It should be high enough in the sky tonight.
Go outside a 10pm. Look NNW, near Ursa Major. Use Google Sky Maps to find Ursa Major. Neowise, oddly enough, isn't on Google Sky Maps.

It's not evident at first, it may take a minute to find it, but once you do it's like "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH".