WA 2021 Summer BDR Run

I'll be doing this route from S-->N the last week of June with a few other friends. If interested shoot me a PM.

 

would be interested to hear what you find out. I've booked tickets for ape caves in late June and planning to do the same with the family

 

You have to book in advance?

 

yeah they limit it during covid so its not too busy but it was like $2 for the day or something like that so not crazy

 

Lol covid just waiting in the cave to get you like the Bogey man

 

You're not going to bang your head unless you decide to crawl into a side passage on your hands and knees. It only gets "tight" in one section, and you just bend over a bit through there. A handheld light and a headlamp is all you need.

 

Really?

 

I never felt the need for a helmet, but I'm not the type to typically bang it into things. Most of the tougher section (upper), the ceiling is going to be well above you.

 

@PacNW_Taco

Proposed itinerary:


July 31 - Meet in Carson at noon, Carson General Store (1162 Wind River Hwy, Carson, WA 98610), camp around Guler Ice Caves (nice spot we found last year, 45.951138,-121.648675)
Aug 1 - Hit the trail at 10am to be in Packwood (Chevron - 12974 US-12, Packwood, WA 98361) around 1:15pm for gas and lunch. [note - NF-23 currently closed due to to snow]. Leave Packwood at 2:45pm, camp around Bethell Ridge (46.71384123648593, -121.0993271345287)
Aug 2 - Hit the trail at 10am to be in Ellensburg (Circle K - 1600 Canyon Rd, Ellensburg, WA 98926) around 2:30pm for gas and lunch. Leave Ellensburg at 4:00pm, camp around Lion Rock (47.251884, -120.588883)
Aug 3 - Hit the trail at 10am to be in Cashmere (Shell - 102 Titchenal Rd, Cashmere, WA 98815) around 1:00m for gas and lunch. Leave Cashmere at 2:30pm, camp around French Corral (47.705545, -120.513343)
Aug 4 - Hit the trail at 10am to be in Chelan (Shell - 301 E Woodin Ave, Chelan, WA 98816) at 1:00pm for gas and lunch. Leave Chelan at 2:30pm, camp OTG (48.3495674512389, -119.87907127365281)
Aug 5 - Hit the trail at 10am to be in Conconully (Whitley Fuel - 201 N Main St, Conconully, WA 98819) at 1:30pm for gas and lunch. Leave Conconully at 3:00 pm, get to the boarder at 6:30pm, camp somewhere maybe?
Aug 6 -
Aug 7 -
Aug 8 -


Edit - Time to start getting a list of who is going and what dates for visibility

I am looking like aug 3-5

 

31-5 maybe more.

 

I’ll come find you guys on Sunday 8/1. @Tacodog if your down for some more trip after the WABDR we can come back through Bolder Cr to Winthrop and run up Hearts Pass. I’m planning on coming back through Bolder Creek anyways. We would back track a little on the last section of the WABDR then cut over to Winthrop through some pretty amazing county.

 

Sounds like a plan. Now to get my boafeng set correctly. We using the same as last year?

 

@WrecklessAbandon you check out those links I pm ed you?

 

Yup! Got a bunch of that stuff ordered. Thanks

 

Probably, I figured out why we couldn’t get yours to work like mine. I had to order a new one after the boy dropped one in the Cascade river out coon hunting last winter. That one came locked out of being able to manually punch in the numbers from the factory. It’s in the memory settings. I’m going to order a https://baofengtech.com/product-category/mobile/ next week and get it in before the trip.

 

If it doubled up. I’ll buy the extra from you.

 

I'll commit to 31-5 and maybe the extra days as well if that happens. Hart's Pass looks awesome!

 

I took my truck up Hart's Pass last summer with the stock highway tires, woke up from camping overnight to a flat at 6 am. Trying to get the spare on wayyyy up high away from town was a pain. Upgraded to the KO2's shortly after

 

I love skechy janky EA Wa tire changes. Especially with the stock jack.