NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Gregs works on my lifted GX all the time and have always treated us right. In fact, they found a rear main seal leak on the wifes RX a month before her warranty expired and saved us $6500. I still owe them dounts and coffee for that.

 

Rear main seal is $6,500 to fix? That’s fucken insane.

 

At the lexus dealership I guess it is

 

Hey WA!

need some driving/traffic intel.
Driving to Bellingham area, coming from northern Arizona this weekend.

I’ll be taking the 4R with 4WD.

I can get to twin falls, Boise, Richland/Kenniwick easily.

gps/google maps says go 90 over snoqualmie pass. I’ve been following WSDOT socials and that looks like a shitshow. Is it really? I wouldn’t mind taking 84 west over to Portland and coming up 5 either.
Any input on routes and road conditions?

 

90 is the main east/west route in WA and is pretty well maintained so you should be fine unless it closes. Can't comment on 84 as I have never taken it in the winter months but I have heard it gets icy.

 

The weather for the pass looks clear this weekend, but temps are in the single digits. Like @WrecklessAbandon posted, 90 is maintained pretty well but there will still be morons out there causing wrecks and closing stretches of the highway at times. I'd expect the roads, especially around Snoqualmie Pass to be more crowded due to the long weekend.
Safe travels!

 

Yea... my concern would be closures due to others inability to drive. I also have read DOT will close it to knock down avalanche risky snow build up?

I (kinda) forgot about the long weekend, but that's the exact reason we opted to drive up, so that we didn't have to take extended time off from work...

 

I-84 is currently closed from Baker City to Pendleton!

 

There's the rub, you won't typically know it is closing ahead of time

 

just checking the route right now, and even 84 in eastern OR is closed right now... can't even get far enough west to make a decision on which route... Hopefully by Sunday the bad weather will be past...

 

The forecast from now till Sunday is pretty rotten for NE Oregon.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-118.50309851533594&lat=45.60100776672604

 

https://youtu.be/8D2zuOtqwBc?si=BWsQDrMsDdb8KzHO This guy is my go to for weather in the PNW. Your path from Southern Idaho to Bellingham is going to get hammered Saturday.

 

@Shadowhunter excellent link, thank you!

This storm really is looking like the shitshow I think it is... and it sucks no matter how you look at it or what route to take...

 

84 across the top of Oregon sucks because it’s 60 mph. That section that’s closed across the Blue Mts is no joke. I’ve driven it a couple times in February and it’s been a white out. Ladd canyon can be pretty gnarly too.

 

A crew of us 4x4 from PNW were headed to Moab (trip #1) in Oct 2017:
I-90 to I-82 to I-84
Just outside of Pendleton towards Meacham, we hit snow flurries.
Not sticking but some other travelers were skerd...

 

I'm in Portland and the weather forecast has varied wildly for the coming weekend. With a snow storm coming through, it’ll likely be a mess. Portland does not handle snow well. Friday night into Saturday has the highest chance of snowy weather. And with several inches of snow, very cold temps, and wind, I would avoid I-84 from The Dalles/Hood River into Portland. That stretch gets bad with snow storms and often gets closed. I can’t say how it’ll be compared to 90.
https://tripcheck.com/ Is a great resource for Oregon roads. Check those cameras to see how it’s looking.
Feel free to DM me for a Portland area road update this weekend.

 

I drove that closed (and open again …) 84 in the corner of OR in late November. It was ok but had snowed and was right at the freeze mark.

I can’t postpone this trip but it may take more days than I had planned

 

thanks for the 84 info. Been watching the trip check cams already. And the WADOT. None of it’s looking good…

 

Driving down to Bend /Mt Bachelor tonight. Gonna be killer snow. Just hope we can make it haha

 

This is what I keep seeing