so we left tahoe on saturday, and initially planned on making it to portland by 9ish. on a two lane road in the middle of north california, we were pulled over for no reason, and the police officer was looking for something to cite us on. He was shaking the jeep asking about how the suspension was going to hold up, and we told him we would make it because we made it this far. that is when irony set in. We drove about 45 mins from our blue suited friend, hit a bump and heard a loud noise out of the back of the jeep. both of us looked at eachother and were freaked out. we pulled over, to see that the wheel was disconnected from the hub. We were lucky to be on a back road and not the highway, but nonetheless it was stressful. We got out to realize we sheared a lug bolt, but luckily due to the aluminum spacers, (that were probably the original issue) only one bolt sheared and we were able to throw the wheel back on and keep moving. But due to our delay we decided to go to bend, not a hard decision. We went to the silvermoon brewery, and caught a bluegrass band. It was a cool town, lots of cool people, and we stayed at the walmart astoria that night. (parking lot).
The next morning we headed to portland to check it out and get some food, and it was an awesome town. It is exactly like portlandia for all of those who watch it. we made it to seattle around 6.
Howdy Yall
Coming from the land of Jackson Wyoming. So we had to change plans a little bit due to the weather at Mt Baker and decided to head to Jackson Hole a little bit early. Even though Seattle's weather is a pretty depressing in the winter, it was great to stay with a good friend Tim wenner. His mother and him fed us allowed our dirt bagging selves to shower and stay with them for a couple days. We tried making it to the Olympic National Forest to see the only rain forest in the U.S. We never made it. Because of the lack of direction and laziness on everyone's part we drove about 3 hours to find a truck abandoned in a park in a forest, gutted and stripped by the forest dwellers (may or may not be human). On a successful not we saw a herd of elk. . . that lee scared away by slipping on a log... from 30 yards away.
On the 12th we left for Jackson hole, driving through Idaho, Montana, and a little bit of wyoming. Idaho never seems to get talked about a lot but it is a very beautiful state. The forests on the rolling mountains seem to all run into either a river or lake at some point and it made for the one of the more scenic drives we have had since the coastal drive in California. Montana is a state of mountains and more mountains. Everything in Montana seems like its a full on backcountry exploration and i plan on making some more trips to that state.
We arrived in J hole about midnight, posted up in the jeep in a hotel parking lot and successfully rolled out in the morning without any hassle from the employee's. Our main goal for this trip was to ride with our friend and manager from buckmans, Chabot. Riding here has been fun in full on spring conditions. Yesterday, the 14th, Chris Mechanish and i were able to meet up with a local rider and may have ripped the hardest lines for both of us including a 25' and 30' cliff drops. It was good to be pushed to my limits again and have some one to ride with during the run. We have been riding and staying with the entire Buckmans Crew for the past few days and its been great to get out with everyone and get to know them a little better. Thank you to Mr. and Mrs Buckman for dinner last night and to everyone in the Chabot house for putting us up.
Today we head to Joe's Valley in Utah. I believe it is in between Moab and SLC. Great climbing down there. We will be there for about a week then its to Breckenridge then home!
Time is moving too fast now. . . .
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| Eric Setting up at Squaw |
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| Lee getting fresh at Homewood |
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| Roadside Breakdown |
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| Jurassic Park? |
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| Buckman's Jackson Hole Crew |
looks like a good time
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