Well last night a couple friends and myself did what used to be our annual “Sleepless Run”. It was annual until I moved but I’m back now so Game On
So we did our usual meet up at 8 PM Friday night(so I left my house at 7 PM) at a pizza joint in Enumclaw, after some dinner we gassed up and ran hwy 410 till we hit FS Rd 70 and drove to the staging lot, and aired down. We followed the gravel road a bit till we hit the entrance to the “Wagon Trail” ( about 9:30-10)
We ran up the first climb with no problems. Then we ran into a couple other Jeepers that HAD some problems. One had rolled his TJ down a hill, but had it back on all 4 wheels by the time we arrived. He pulled the plugs, and checked all fluids, one of my friends gave him a quart of atf then they moved aside so we could continue. They were both safe, one had a trailer waiting and the Jeep had very minimal damage, looked like a beat up fender and soft top. He also had a real good cage.
From there every thing else went good, kinda slow but nobody was in a hurry. About the 1/2 way mark we made a friend, some guy named Jeff and his Boston terrier running the trail in their Baddass CJ 6 ( if you have a CJ 6 and your wheeling it, you and your rig are automatically Baddass IMO) He thought we looked like a fun group so he decided to tag along for the rest of the trail.
We finished running the trail and set up camp around 1:30-2 AM then hung out at the fire till about 3 before calling it a night.(“Sleepless Run” remember)
Anyway we all woke up around 8AM, it was cold and rainy so we all quickly tore camp down and went to Whistlin Jacks for some breakfast.
Next we decided to go play at the rocks so we were off again, no issues on the trails we took to get there, didn’t see anyone else on the trails even. Just an easy drive there.
Funny Rocks was the first place we hit up, it was cold and slick, traction was not happening, the easy likes were tough and the hard lines sucked. So after playing around a bit we decided to head over to Moon Rocks where the traction is usually better. It was but only slightly, but the fog rolled in making visibility the issue here. Again we only played for a little bit but hung out and BS’ed for a while before deciding it was time to head towards home. This is where our new friend Jeff said bye since his home was in the Thorp.
The rest of us headed back to Whistlin Jacks to gas up before the drive home. We decided that we could take HWY 410 but opted for pyramid pass since it’s usually faster and all gravel. We got to the area we aired down in the night before to air up this time and headed out on the pavement towards home, I got home at 5 PM this evening. Pretty fun 22 Hrs!
So we did our usual meet up at 8 PM Friday night(so I left my house at 7 PM) at a pizza joint in Enumclaw, after some dinner we gassed up and ran hwy 410 till we hit FS Rd 70 and drove to the staging lot, and aired down. We followed the gravel road a bit till we hit the entrance to the “Wagon Trail” ( about 9:30-10)
We ran up the first climb with no problems. Then we ran into a couple other Jeepers that HAD some problems. One had rolled his TJ down a hill, but had it back on all 4 wheels by the time we arrived. He pulled the plugs, and checked all fluids, one of my friends gave him a quart of atf then they moved aside so we could continue. They were both safe, one had a trailer waiting and the Jeep had very minimal damage, looked like a beat up fender and soft top. He also had a real good cage.
From there every thing else went good, kinda slow but nobody was in a hurry. About the 1/2 way mark we made a friend, some guy named Jeff and his Boston terrier running the trail in their Baddass CJ 6 ( if you have a CJ 6 and your wheeling it, you and your rig are automatically Baddass IMO) He thought we looked like a fun group so he decided to tag along for the rest of the trail.
We finished running the trail and set up camp around 1:30-2 AM then hung out at the fire till about 3 before calling it a night.(“Sleepless Run” remember)
Anyway we all woke up around 8AM, it was cold and rainy so we all quickly tore camp down and went to Whistlin Jacks for some breakfast.
Next we decided to go play at the rocks so we were off again, no issues on the trails we took to get there, didn’t see anyone else on the trails even. Just an easy drive there.
Funny Rocks was the first place we hit up, it was cold and slick, traction was not happening, the easy likes were tough and the hard lines sucked. So after playing around a bit we decided to head over to Moon Rocks where the traction is usually better. It was but only slightly, but the fog rolled in making visibility the issue here. Again we only played for a little bit but hung out and BS’ed for a while before deciding it was time to head towards home. This is where our new friend Jeff said bye since his home was in the Thorp.
The rest of us headed back to Whistlin Jacks to gas up before the drive home. We decided that we could take HWY 410 but opted for pyramid pass since it’s usually faster and all gravel. We got to the area we aired down in the night before to air up this time and headed out on the pavement towards home, I got home at 5 PM this evening. Pretty fun 22 Hrs!