Annual OR/WA TSF Camping and Wheeling Shindig

if you read the letter of the law, anything involving 10+ vehicles constitutes a sponsored event, but I don't understand how that doesn't apply to family camp outs then
The PDX group is sorta kinda still TW, but you are right in that we have more than enough people.

 

Was shown this link this morning... I might come around and scope this out! Not sure about trails at this point, the truck is mostly stock and I've not gone off-roading before! BUT it'd be fun to scope it out and see what's up, maybe have a go. I've penciled it in as a tentative possibility, it does sound like a ton of fun.

 

There's plenty of roads and easy trails to drive around on that a stock truck can do. Beautiful scenery out there, plus the camping, and food, and the people. There's other people that will be doing the green (easy) and blue (little harder) stuff from what I'm seeing on the list, so it's not like you'd be left on your own to drive around.

 

No response yet to my email to the coordinator. I'll be out of office tomorrow, so I'll check again Monday

 

Thanks for the head's up. I'm going to have to work that Friday, but I'm off on the weekends so I might cruise out with the other peeps on the Saturday! It definitely sounds like something I'd like to do, and it sounds like it's an annual thing you guys do?

 

Yup, this is the 7th annual. There's other informal runs out there as well through the year.

 

What does everyone else think about capping the roster at this point? @DontTouchMyTaco would be our 18th, not sure we need to stretch to 19+

 

how many rigs do we want in a group, how many leaders do we have?

 

Is there any maps of the trails? And are the trails marked well?

 

yes there is a map, the trails are marked with signs, imo the map layout/legend is shit. but what do i know.

 

i'm not opposed to leading, but my navigational skills are subpar

 

@Chickenmunga let's cap it.

As long as I can play Friday with a few of you that I've wheeled with, I can lead the beginners Saturday if there are some who want to just try things out.

 

I can't read trail maps for shit. Maybe it's because the TSF one is so confuzzling. Or I'm just an idiot. Or both.

 

I'll bite the bullet and ride in front of Ben....

 

I NEED A BUFFER OF AT LEAST 3 YOTAS ON BOTH SIDES OF ME AND BEN.

Just sayin'.

 

Come run blacks with @utroda and I

 

There's probably a nicer one available online, I didn't bother to look. I was bored at work so took some pics and tried stitching them together...for no particular reason. Close enough.

 

Max group size I would suggest would be 8, but smaller is preferred. The hard part is determining who wants to be in what group
If at all possible, the lead and the tail should both be the best kitted, and have comms. One winch per group minimum is a good idea for the few times when they are needed.

The map is better than the last version, but it's still confusing. We talked to a ranger once and asked him where we were on the map, and they said, "hell, I don't know."
I would recommend grabbing a tablet or phone and getting either the maplets version, OSMand, backcountry navigator, etc. I haven't figured out which one is the best, it would be cool to have a few people load different apps to their devices, put them all in the same vehicle, and do a compare. If we get the availability I'd like to try that and see how easy it is to navigate from Brown's Camp to the top of Cedar Tree.

I don't think there's ever an outing where we aren't analyzing the map.