Idaho BS thread in the PNW

Tonight wife and I took a impromptu cruise up the Boise front watching the sunset

 

I've posted some of them somewhere on here before... might have been in there

 

I've been wanting to go. Should of went when we lived in Kuna. How is the hike? It's looking like Ryan will need a disc replacement so hiking of any kind right now is a bit of a stretch.

 

Hello everyone. Let me introduce myself I'm Matt. I just moved to Boise today and don't know anything about it. I moved from Arizona. Im driving a 2008 Tacoma 4 cylinder 4x4. I need some repairs done on it before I go exploring the wilderness of Idaho. Any suggestions on were to go and not to go.

 

My ex-fiencee last weekend shot herself in the leg with my 357 magnum revolver and claims that someone broke into our house and did this to her. I didn't know that she has a seserious mental health problem. If she is capable of shooting herself what is going to stop ber from shooting me if she having a bad mental health day. It broke my heart to leave the one i loved. But its not worth my life.

 

Repairs are:
1. Master cylinder is leaking brake fuild inside the cab.
2. Throwout bearing is making aton of noise.
3. Lost 4th gear in my manual transmission grinds horribly and won't engage at all.
4.Rack and Pinion is leaking worn shaking vibration in the steering wheel. Also eating my tires for not be in specs of the alignment.

 

Hello all, ran out to the Alvord again this weekend. This took the family and the camper. First night we boondocked at Frog Springs, right on the edge of lake bed, kept us out of the dust. The second night we spent at the Alvord Hot Springs Campground. It was simple, but nice. They told us when we got there to keep an eye out for a cougar that had been sited in the campground. We didn’t see it but we did see some tracks up the mountain. There we even baby cougar tracks. The campground borders on the Steens Mountains and BLM land. On the second day of exploring we saw a group of 8 Big Horn Rams. Got a distance shot with the 200mm lens, but they are still small. Got to pull the pictures from the camera and then I’ll post one of the rams. It was fun, but it’s quite drive to get out there.

 

I thought I recognized this from your live feed on Instagram. We’ve been twice and my oldest keeps bugging me to go back again.

 

thats scary stuff there. Glad you got out of that situation.

 

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/plummer-id/83851/daily-weather-forecast/36147_pc?day=2
wifes phone said up to 8 inches of snow....see what happens...

 

That was my experience in general when I was looking for a second set of wheels. But I thought they were all priced for a premium. 96 Civic for 5 grand and stuff like that.

 

Nice!! Jealous for sure! was it windy on the playa?

 

I know of one

 

It was, we chased some dust devils down with the truck. The eastern side was full of dust clouds and the wind at night turned the fire into a blast furnace.

 

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/plummer-id/83851/weather-forecast/36147_pc now its 6-8...

 

Here is the photo of the big horn sheep. It’s a 1 to 1 crop. That’s how far away they were.

 

Legit. My wife and I were just talking this weekend how we had never seen any big horns in the wild before. Have seen just about every other oddball animal at some point, but no rams.

 

I can tell you where they were. The campground manager said to look out for them, so the have been in the area for a while. He seems to think the cougar drove them down from the higher mountains. It was also 11 am, so,there’s no stress about getting out early. It’s just a long way to drive for the day. Was our first time as well.

 

Looking to up grade the tires on the Tacoma. Anyone recommend a good local tire shop?

Anyone got experience with Toyo wild country ATs or Cooper ST MAXXs?

 

We had a set of Toyo's on our old 4Runner, worked good for what they were.