Naches & Manastash Jeep Trip (lots of photos)

[kognito]

Originally Posted by nate

Very cool!

I think my 328Ci would have some difficulty with that terrain.

Not a problem, Nate. Jay has winches, cables, and straps

[lupinsea]

Yeah, I can probably drag your 3 series over most of this stuff. You might even have pieces of the car intact at the end of the trail.

[lupinsea]

Originally Posted by kognito

Edit: crazy how that fire up there took off from 300 acres last night to 26,000 acres this mornig!!

Yes and no.

The wild fire is burning on the north side of I-90. We came down the ridge just south of I-90 on the other side of the valley floor. Assuming the two forests are in similar condition, there were stretches of trail where the trees were packed tight and had a lot of dry, dead branches on the lower parts of the trunks. Plus, I was surprised at how much dried and dead wood has accumulated from all the wind fall over the last several years.

We were basically driving through a giant pile of kindling.

No wonder the Forest Service had banned campfires. Those were some DRY forests up in the mountains.