We had a GREAT time in MOAB (thanks all that helped put that together) with the WranglerTJForum group running our LJ 
W had an opportunity to go in another direction from the desert and head up the west coast to Oregon with another group for some deep woods jeeping in Tillamook and get out of the heat wave. Our group was around 40 jeeps for the week, and we split up to smaller 8 jeep groups and took different trails each day. This place is absolutely beautiful and reminded me a lot of backpacking in Maine & New Hampshire and trails were empty during the week.
Tillamook State Forest is large and is continuously maintained for fire prevention and all the jeep trails we went on crisscrossed the logger's gravel roads while they cut and move logs from designated areas. We were able to drive thru one active logging setup, watching them pull logs up the hillside and cut / stack and they were all very nice and no issues and we used a CB to monitor / notify when heading up / down their roads.
It was raining or our first few days and trails were very slippery with lots of sticky mud, but it was a lot of fun helping each other and completing the trails. Some sections of the jeep trails are so grown, you could hardly see the other jeeps in our group unless it was a bright color, and some sections were so tight that the 4 doors had issues making the turns. It actually helped that is was raining cause it allowed us to use roots to turn against to get around some turns without backing up.
The town is small but they had good resources and we took one day and went to visit the Tillamook Cheese plant which was really cool, and the WW II dirigible hanger — there use to be two but one burned down. Here they had a lot of WW II history and displays.
Here are some pics on our Archers Firebreak trail run and will try posting others runs which included Firebreak 5, Ginsburg, Cedar Tree and a few others where we made wrong turns and ended up on smaller side trails. All the trails are on Gaia maps and all pretty accurate, so we really never got lost.
W had an opportunity to go in another direction from the desert and head up the west coast to Oregon with another group for some deep woods jeeping in Tillamook and get out of the heat wave. Our group was around 40 jeeps for the week, and we split up to smaller 8 jeep groups and took different trails each day. This place is absolutely beautiful and reminded me a lot of backpacking in Maine & New Hampshire and trails were empty during the week.Tillamook State Forest is large and is continuously maintained for fire prevention and all the jeep trails we went on crisscrossed the logger's gravel roads while they cut and move logs from designated areas. We were able to drive thru one active logging setup, watching them pull logs up the hillside and cut / stack and they were all very nice and no issues and we used a CB to monitor / notify when heading up / down their roads.
It was raining or our first few days and trails were very slippery with lots of sticky mud, but it was a lot of fun helping each other and completing the trails. Some sections of the jeep trails are so grown, you could hardly see the other jeeps in our group unless it was a bright color, and some sections were so tight that the 4 doors had issues making the turns. It actually helped that is was raining cause it allowed us to use roots to turn against to get around some turns without backing up.
The town is small but they had good resources and we took one day and went to visit the Tillamook Cheese plant which was really cool, and the WW II dirigible hanger — there use to be two but one burned down. Here they had a lot of WW II history and displays.
Here are some pics on our Archers Firebreak trail run and will try posting others runs which included Firebreak 5, Ginsburg, Cedar Tree and a few others where we made wrong turns and ended up on smaller side trails. All the trails are on Gaia maps and all pretty accurate, so we really never got lost.
7 up gets your attention when wet too.