Annual OR/WA TSF Camping and Wheeling Shindig

Ahhhhhhh ok haha

It’s a pintle hitch and I plan to pull the eyelit 2x2 out and put the locking pin back through the hole so no one can put their own hitch in. Hopefully that’s enough of a deterrent? Whatcha think

 

@Boomer04 between 8:30-9:00am is probably a good time. We can meet at the park and ride kennydale. At a party now but lets arrange meet time and place later.

 

Multiple people camp in one site or two. So splitting the cost of say... $30 for a weekend between 3 people means only $10 per person.

 

Ohhhh ok. I thought we all had our own “campsites” next to one another. Again, never been camping out there. Only went to browns camp area off-roading once, a month ago...in 2 ft of snow haha

 

Whatever dollar bills are left, Ben will be dancing in vip booth #3

 

...which is why the 6 hour trip will be worth it!

 

You can do stuff like that in Tahuya where it's a smaller, circular park, but TSF has many dispersed trails with one very long trail in the middle.
Based on how things have gone in the past and the way the trails are laid out, it doesn't work out very well trying to get everyone all the way back to camp for lunch because you get caught in the middle of completing a trail or you might be on the complete other side of camp. IIRC, last year @penguins_cc broke down on the middle/south end of the camp, and it took me 20 minutes of driving access roads to get back to camp to pick up a tool we needed. That slows down when you caravan.
The best way we did it was to get at least one short trail done on Friday so we could get better splits for Saturday. We also used to have more definitive "I want black difficulty minimum" group and a more laid back blue/black group, but now it's more just about being part of a blue/black shennanigans wagon. I used to be super organized with a spreadsheet and placing people with their buddies, but people just ended up filtering into whatever group they felt like on their own.

There should be a link to the TSF website, and from there, there is a map of the campsite. The camp is first come first serve, except for a few spendier group sites that are usually full anyway. We've been lucky in the past, we've only done dispersed once by choice and once because the site we wanted wasn't available.

 

1. # @Chickenmunga - No caravan, headed over Friday after work - whenever Sunday, black and blue is where it's at.
2. # @snowgod06 - No caravan, early Friday - Sunday morning, blues and maybe blacks
3. # @Benson X - Washington caravan?, headed down Friday after work - Sunday morning, blue/black
4. # @mutilatedjak - Washington caravan?, ??? - Sunday morning, blue/black
5. # @penguins_cc - Washington caravan?, ?? - Sunday morning, blue/black
6. # @Bennett707 (with @JayMac passenger), no caravan, ?? - Sunday, blue/black
7. #@stikle - No caravan, ?? - Sunday morning, blue/black
8. # @jammdogg - No caravan, Friday afternoon - Saturday afternoon, blue/black
9. Aaron S in a Samurai on 33s, ???, Friday morning - Sunday, blue/black
10. @Boomer04 - ???, Friday morning - Sunday, blue/black
11. # @Synergy001 - Hillsboro caravan, Friday evening - Sunday, green - some black
12. # @Skootter14 - ??, Friday evening from Washington - Sunday, green - black (maybe double black)
13. # Uriah S in a 2nd gen on 35s - maybe caravan, Friday if he can get it off - Sunday, blue/black
14. open
15. open

 

Ok sounds great.

 

I think I might actually try and be there Thursday, only so I beat Rob.

"Luggage"... haha

And speaking of gun, I figured out what was wrong with my AR-15 - the gas block had come loose so there wasn't enough pressure to push the BCG back and eject the brass. Weird too, as I had used Loctite on it. @Chickenmunga - you won't have this issue because you have a free float handguard. Mine has a different style that uses a delta ring spring assembly which exerts force on the gas block. Oops. Oh well, easy fix. I may bring that along again in case the opportunity presents itself again (thanks for last time ha ha). I also just picked up this bad boy and ran a few hundred rounds through it. Shoots really nice.

And right there's an opportunity to say this: if you have tools, bring them. Don't expect others to have what you need in case of a breakdown. The more people with tools the better.

Also, get your CBs and antennas in order. I'll toss my SWR meter in just in case it's needed.

And, bring any/all instant/pop-up canopies...rain gear...propane heaters... Two years ago it was cold and pouring in June. We made our own CanopyCity and got through it. It would have been rough otherwise.

 

Checked out the different camp sites last night. And that all makes sense; didn’t realize just how big/long the trails are. Sounds like you guys have done this once or twice lol

 

Wait. Theres VIP booths?! Shit the bed!...Is the roster full?

 

I think I could finally make this year work. Either of you wanna squeeze in the trip?
@utroda @NorthwestCruiser

 

I won’t know until the week before if I can go or not.. depends how much stuff I have for work before they send me to corporate

 

Rats

 

bring the LC and i'll save you a spot in my tent...

 

So many toys to buy, right? I want to try out an LCP or LCP II. An ankle gun would be really nice sometimes.

I'm fixed up now

 

I hear it's open all night...

 

maybe

 

Would be fun. A lot of OGs