2022 Summer WABDR Run 9/10-15 (with map)

Update with map (note - wabdr trail didn't upload perfectly)

2022 WABDR (google.com)

Proposed route/days/meeting/camping spots:

Day 1 (9/10/22)

• Meet at Enumclaw Safeway @ 9am (47.198083617833326, -121.97984130699496)
• Leave Safeway @ 930am
• Meet at HWY 12/Bethel Ridge Rd @ 1230pm (46.675546383823836, -121.08021663253959)
• Camp near Cleman mountain (46.8235768, -120.8577616)

Day 2 (9/11/22)

• Leave camp by 10am
• Rendesvous at Love Truck Stop @ 3pm (47.00827207206248, -120.58572090916228)
• Leave Loves @ 4pm
• Camp @ Lion Rock (47.252289519928254, -120.5772949498724)

Day 3 (9/12/22)

• Leave camp by 10am
• Rendesvous at Rusty’s Drive in@ 1pm (47.52039219720005, -120.45512825345833)
• Leave Rusty’s @ 2pm
• Camp @ (47.95641219712618, -120.24156381965761)

Day 4 (9/13/22)

• Leave camp by 11am
• Rendesvous at Shell @ 12pm (47.84020745926938, -120.01441118824758)
• Leave Shell @ 130pm
• Camp @ Leader Lake (48.361827587729834, -119.69883148746298)

Day 5 (9/14/22)

• Leave camp by 11am
• Rendesvous at Whitley Fuel @ 12pm (48.55857023921754, -119.7503608398474)
• Leave Whitley Fuel @ 130pm
• Camp @ Chopaka Lake Campground (48.91468684366637, -119.70228769809634)

Day 6 (9/15/22)

• Leave camp by 10am
• Drive to the border
• Go home
• Or keep camping

GMRS channel 16 (462.5750)

Attendees:

stonylaroux - sept 11-15 (GMRS + ham)
Shadowhunter - sept 10-13 (GMRS)
JDAM - sept 10-15 (CB + DMR)
Tacoma San Diego - sept 10-14 (GMRS)
SilverYeti - maybe
action_zacked - maybe (GMRS)
utroda - sept 10-12
a2lowvw - sept 10-14
Tacodog - sept 10-14

WrecklessAbandon - sept 10-13 (GMRS + ham)
vecdran - sept 12-15 (GMRS)
tonered - sept 9-11 (ham/GMRS)
PacNW_Taco - sept 10-15 (ham/GMRS)
Flash_Adalwolf - sept 10-12
EK99civic - sept 10-14

 

Jeally!



Maybe next year, if I can't hit up a weekend section?

 

. Following dot

 

following, August dates preferred

 

Mid July to early September is heavy fire season.

 

I'm down, would late September be too far back? Would be nice to not be in fire season this time.

 

If we did this the last week of June most of the snow should be melted and we *might* be able to have open fires at camp.

 

Has anyone run this in a day? BajaWashington 500?

 

@spencermarkd

 

Send it

 

I already have almost all my vacation days planned so would only be able to do it on a weekend, pretty much a full day of driving to the start/driving home from the finish it looks like

 

This might be a stupid question, but y'all are talking doing the BDR in trucks, yeah? Not motorcycles/dirt bikes/dual sports?

Thanks for the tag @fatfurious2

 

Yes in our trucks.

 

We might be better off with snowmobiles at this rate.

 

Snowpack is pretty thick right now, probably be mid june before all the snow in the Mt Adams area is melted out.

 

So what about mid September run?

 

North Cascades is what I'd be concerned about. Section 1 near Mt. Adams doesn't get super high up, and it's easy to route around. Plus Section 1 wasn't all that exciting anyway.

Parts of sections 4 and 5 are beyond 6000 feet, very remote(so not a lot of options for reroutes) and awesome routes that shouldn't be skipped(actually I'd say that about all the sections but 1, some of the most beautiful roads I've ever been on. One is mostly just driving through a forest on gravel roads).

 

Yeah section 1 blows. Happy to skip it.

 

It's almost July, should we start figuring out dates? I need to start planning/requesting my PTO time.

Also just wanted to get this rolling again.

 

I'm tentatively still down for sometime in September, probably just for 4-5-6 to "finish" my run from last year. Things apparently only just melted out and the last tree clearing was performed last week.