NW WA Meet / BS Thread

I'm gonna be about 30 min behind you guys. Or 15 depending on when you leave safeway.

 

Are you up the road already

 

Hey brother yeah just got to them. Just found out that you were waiting man. Msg me your number if you can.

 

Bishop 4x4 you comin?

 

Yeah the little compressors have a duty cycle. Even my ARB has a 50% DC. I think the lower cost ones have like a 30% DC.

 

Shoot! For some reason was not subbed to this thread, I was in Monroe this morning, if I would have known (and didn't get called into work) I would have shot down just to meet everyone and scope out the rigs. Have a safe trip!

 

You guys still alive?? Anyone interested in tomorrow!?

 

Hoping you all made it out.. Good news is it's going to be warm tomorrow. I

Not to sound like a broken nerdy record, but it might be a good idea for at least one person to think about some alternative communication, i.e. HAM. Had a conversation between myself up in Deming and Issaquah, clear as a cell phone conversation @ 120 Miles. Especially as the weather is getting colder, and the shitty weather is approaching. Because you really are screwed when shit hits the fan and no one has cell reception.

Attempted to push all the way through FS38 this morning, no go. Let my buddy call it; he doesn't have a winch and was the lead vehicle. Made it up to 3,000 feet though, snow depth of about 12". It rained at the lower elevation last night, and really consolidated the snow up to that point. Progress got slow once we got to that thin crust/slick powder stuff.. Definitely would like to try again.

Heading to Colockum next weekend to try and break through from Wanatchee.

Awesome views of Baker and the Twin Peaks.

 

CBs are great for chatting amongst a group of rigs, but that's about it.. Still an awesome thing to have when everyone else has one, and really great to have on a long road trip. Should have recorded some of the banter between Mipawlus's and I on our trip out to Bozeman..

Those handhelds max out at 5 Watts. Great if you're in town near a repeater. Not so much if you're in between two mountains and need to reach out. I'd save your money and go with an in-vehicle radio.

$200 for antenna/coax/radio will get you into a completely capable setup.

Of course it all has to be coordinated before.. but if one of these guys had a radio they could talk to me up here via a repeater. Something like "Okay I'll check in with you at 1600 and let you know how we're doing.."

I dunno.. I approach going out in these conditions, or any kind of conditions alone/with a group all about risk assessment.. The best thing you can do is attempt to mitigate those risks by being prepared. Just like that gun, a radio is just another tool to have in your quiver.

Rant over.

 

It's on the to-do list still, but I have a VHF radio that needs installing first, four FEMA classes to slog through, and I need to find training for both first aid and CPR.

 

Hopefully alive...

 

GSPRunner is viewing this thread right now... not sure if it was just the last thread he had on his phone though.

 

ruh roh im at work right now (SAR center for the NW) lemme know if we need to open a SAR case...

 

We all made it out! I'll post up the few amount of pictures I have in a minute. We got to the top of the road without any problems...Apparently last weekends meet was a bit more epic.
This was my first ever meet and I just can't say enough about how much fun I had and how nice everyone is. I can't wait for another one!

 

i work in a command center sord of the "control center" for the NW area

 

Yep made it out! Really fun and a beautiful day. I'll throw up some pics soon.

 

iPhone shit out on me shortly into the meet.
Apple FTW................
Enough of my sarcastic bitching,
Here are a couple pics I managed to snap-- shoulda been better than I was but ohhh well

 

Yeah, I'm missing the smell of burnt clutch already

 

How do you burn clutch if you have 4lo? Heh heh

You guys get bogged down in the snow like we did last week?