Aaaanyway, sorry been long days at work so did t type or upload anything. Day one started with my buddy Chris and I hopping in the rig in Vancouver, Wa and driving north to go pick up my brother Benjamin, we don't get to see eachother very often so it worked out well to combine this H40 meet n wheel into a guys weekend. Picked Bubs up from work and headed on down to the waterfront. Caught the 1hr and 15 min ferry ride over to Bremerton and pulled into Tahuya State park after dark. We found the set up lot and the trail across the street so we turned in on the trails and were greatful immediately for all the extra lighting as trying to figure out which turns to take proved challenging to say the least. Everything I had read online stated the 4x4 trail was labelled with yellow diamonds. Horse****. Never saw one day or night. So we worked our way further down the trail and after a difficult hill descent with some spotting and a couple turns ended up crossing a road and entering a campground loop which thank god had a map. After a quick consult we figured out where we were and decided to head back around to the set up lot. We drove in, saw folks camped in the middle, worked our way around the edge and stopped at a loss for what to do next when low and behold I see headlights coming down from what we would later find out to be an upper lot. Chris thought they were toyota lights at which point I argued saying I'd recognize those lights anywhere and low and behold it was ramrod! After a quick hello, we decided to head back up to the upper lot and pitch camp. RAmrod and his GF had their tent setup in no time as after two weeks on the road they had settle into a solid routine, we had not attached the annex to this tent before but with his help had everything set up and beers cracked in no time, around midnight, josh (hills)'s brother walks up outta the dark and asks if we are the hummer guys which was met my laughter so off he went back into the shadows to get Josh and Charles with his H3 for the night. Meet and greet passed and with four rigs and the nine of us hung out until 2:30 or 3 before calling it a night. We were all up around 8:30-9:30 ish got camp broke down and Janice (Hummjay) showed up so we did a little training exercise geared towards familiarizing folks with their tire locations, we aired down and hit the trail. Thanks everyone for being so patient as I was navigating with a paper map (thanks Janice) trying to follow the trail. We had teo good hill descent, a great hill climb where Charles nailed it and ramrod cheated (lockers)
and 5 hrs later we were done for the day. While we were out Blake (taylorblake) and his buddy showed up and did a little wheeling on their own waiting for us to pop out, and superbuickguy made it once we were back in the staging area. We chatted for a bit, helped each other air back up, I found the heat overload limit for the first time on my Viair with Janice's 3 million PSI tires LOL! and superbuickguy guy got everybody else squared away.:thumbs:
Josh headed out scouting after a powwow and found us a great camp sight :woot: So folks worked their way there for the night got set up and spent the night chatting till the wee hours:cheers: Unfortunately Janice couldn't stay but swore she would pop her camping cherry with us on the next run (and I'm holding you to that!!!) Must've been about 11 Sunday by the time we were all packed (me last) still getting the hang of the RTT, and headed out. Josh headed south pulling my trailer :giggle: And the last four of us worked our way back to the ferry, enjoyed the ride then split up in Seattle sadly to go our own ways. Temps varied in the mid to high 90's during the day, it was a hot weekend, but the stream at the camp sight was refreshing for everyone. Chris, Bubs, and I headed over to drop Bubs off at his apartment and then we worked our way back to Vancouver. The mud was so thick it was holding heat and my floorboards were uncomfortably warm. That and a temp gauge at the high end made for an interesting drive home, but thankfully no one was hurt, no one broke anything, and a good time was had by all. Can't wait for the next trip!
