September 14th, 2002
We have been wanting to do an
early run for awhile to take advantage of the nice weather and to get some
nice sunrise pictures.
When the sun comes up on Mt.
Rainier at sunrise, it looks awesome.
You will see Mt. Rainier here in quite a few pictures. It's a milestone in the state of Washington as it can be seen from both sides of the state.
Here are the people who went.
Alan (alanh) 2002 4Runner
Bill (wrongway) '85 truck
Corey, '91 4Runner
Jim (mytruck) & his wife
Trudie, '89 Extracab truck
The videos are best viewed if
you right click the link and save it to your desktop. If you merely click
on the link, it will play, but it can be choppy, and some parts may not
play at all.
Later in the day Bill let Jim
& I take turns at his '85 solid axle truck.
We went up this hill that we
have been on before.
Going up in Bill's rig was a
piece of cake.
A little bouncy, but the hill
is littered with ruts.
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Videos I took
Driving
up old roads
Old
roads behind Alan
Old
roads behind Alan
Old
roads behind Jim & Trudie
Bill
playing on hill
Bill
on hill
Bill
on hill
Jim
trying out Bill's '85 truck
Jim
coming down the hill
Corey
trying out Bill's '85 truck
Corey
coming down the hill
Bill
on hill
Bill
on hill
The reason for going so early
was to capture the sun coming up across Mt. Rainier's face.
We also saw a doe and her fawn
driving up one the the roads.
Going early has it's advantages
too. It's less crowded, and not as warm out.
We were all done by 10 am and
ready to head home after several hours of exploring.
Found a really cool lake, which
I am not going to give out the location too, unless we go again.
We don't want the area getting
to popular as it's tucked away and very hard to find.
Bill let Jim & I drive his
solid axle truck. That was a lick in the butt.
His truck is setup pretty much
for rock crawling.
That is the first time I have
used a stick in awhile, but it all came back to me.
It was fun charging up the hill
as it's packed with ruts, and would be pretty hard on an IFS truck if you
charged the hill like that.
I'd like to get something like
Bill's rig one day, and wheel it up there on some of the harder trails
I'd rather not take my 4Runner on.