Fall Colors Run, Greenwater FS road 72
September
27th, 2003
With
fall here, we wanted to get in a run before the snow flies a few weeks
from now.
We
had summer like weather today in the 80s up there in the mountains.
Joey
had picked up his 4Runner the night before after having it shipped clear
from the UK to WA. state.
Kevin
(jimrockford and his son came all the way from Spokane to check out Greenwater.
We
also came across a guy who had shot and killed a back bear.
We
were not sure if he had poached the bear, or if it was legit.
Said
he was berry picking, and the bear was stalking an elk, and he did not
want to see the bear take down the elk.
Uh
huh, yeah, whatever, it smelled fishy to us.
I
bet he was freaked out to see all these Toyota people stop and whip out
our digicams and start taking pics of him and the bear.
Here
are the people who went.
Alan
- 2000 4Runner (alanh)
Dave
- 1998 4Runner (Mad Chemist)
Corey
- 1991 4Runner (hey, that be me)
Ducky
- 2001 4Runner 4Runner
Jim
- 1998 Tacoma (jruz)
Jim
& Trudie - 1989 Toyota truck (mytruck)
Joey
& his sister Renee - 1994 4Runner (UKMyers)
Jowie
- 2002 Tacoma (jowie)
Kevin
& his son Derek - 1991 4Runner (jimrockford)
Mark
& Karynne - 1996 4Runner (mpulver)
Mike
- 1997 4Runner (smr4runner)
Romeo
- 1994 Toyota truck (seafarinman)
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.
Videos:
Please
right click the reel and choose "save target as" from the menu.
These
will not play or stream in if you just click the link.
Joey
playing in the gravel pit, 5.5 mb.
Part
one: Airing down area, the bear, and the gravel pit, 4 mb.
Part
two: More gravel pit action, 5.9 mb.
Here
are some of mine & Trudie's pictures put together into a 5.7 mb slide
show using Microsoft's Movie Maker.
The
music is from a PC game called Interstate 76 that was very popular back
around '98 or '99.
Here
are 36 more pictures
from Jim & Trudie.
Here
is a page
Mark put together.
And
also a page
that Dave put together.
I
feel like I have known a lot of them for a long time since we converse
on the forum quite a bit.
Got
to meet Joey (UKMyers) and his 2nd gen was looking sharp.
He
was glad to have it back after having it on a slow boat from the UK to
the USA.
Joey
got a little excited being up at Greenwater for the first time and got
stuck in some real soft gravel/dirt.
The
gravel pit that we often stop by to play at had a lot more gravel added
to it.
Joey
came up a back way into a trail there, and sunk down a bit.
To
get positioned correctly to back out, Jim (mytruck) and Joey had to use
shovels to level out some of the ground so Joey could back down again.
Seeing
the shot bear along the side of the road was quite strange indeed.
I
can't really fathom a bear being down that low like that, and I have a
feeling this guy was just out for some bear stakes to fill his fridge,
and took advantage of the bear.
Not
sure if it's even bear season up there.
Maybe
Ranger Randy will see this, and do some checking into it.
Much
better than bothering us Toyota folk who are out doing no harm.