NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Where's Gallagher?

 

Gallaher Head Lake
Washington 98826

https://goo.gl/maps/1iEFuY3kHdt

 

@Nimitz I didn't realize it was you till I was to far away. I-90 East near Issaquah.

 

I'm almost positive thats not me, even though it looks like me. I didn't get on 90 all day today.

 

Left WA at 6am Friday, arrived in Phoenix at 4pm Saturday.

Went out hunting outside my house tonight.....these little suckers do glow!

 

Fuck. That.

 

How many hours of actual driving did it take you? I'll be making the drive next December.

Also fuck those critters

 

About 22 hours. First day was Camano Island to Wells, NV - about 12 hours with just gas stops. Next day was 10 hours.

 

Worst time to find em is when you wake up in the middle of the night to a sharp pain and then it feels like your chest is on fire, then you find one crawling out from under your sheets.

 

I think this was the highest point in the drive.

 

Ughhh...

 

Turn around.....

 

That would be the last night I ever spend in Arizona

 

Impossible. Even had the light bar on the frontrunner rack.

Check your driveway? lol...

 

But anyway, yeah. Gallagher is clear all the way to the tippy top. That section before the lake is a little wet/muddy, but the rest is pretty similar to years past. A bit more eroded.

 

Scorpions are cool. I've found scorpions in E. Washington. The furthest West was on the East shore of the Columbia River at Vantage. Look under rocks.

 

Not sure if anyone has run into this before but I'd you haven't, get a load of this:

Met up with my girlfriends family who RV camps up at fort warden, parked behind their tiny RV, replacing their tow car. Popped up my roof top tent and was informed by the ranger that a roof top tent classifies as a second trailer/RV and would have to rent a second spot if I wanted to use it (while mounted to my truck)... He was persistent and was ready to write me a ticket if I wouldn't take it down.

I don't know where the hell they draw the line on this rule, but he insured me it was a rule and that's the way it had to be. Not sure if any of you have run into this before at state parks but it pissed our camping group off a fair amount. We're going to write to an appropriate authority and try and get this looked at or at least let someone see my frustrations.

We ended up popping a standard tent on the ground and slept in that. Next project is quick disconnects to shove it up their... I mean, avoid this problem in the future.

 

errrr wtf