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New Years Eve – New Years Day 2007-2008
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Hey, where’s my feet? |
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NYD 2008 |
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Waterfall by camp |
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Todd stuck |
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MJ |
Stephanie |
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Keith’s Sami |
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Allan’s |
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Wade’s |
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Keith |
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Jenn |
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Trip report – by Beth Marie with
comments from Jenn
On New Year's Eve I headed out for my second run with OBH,
my first being the holiday tree run up
After getting lost (turns out GPS's only work if you do what
they say) I arrived at about 17:30 and fueled at the local CFN, which was
amazingly
within a stone's throw of the Chevron. I fueled and grabbed
a quick bite to eat and then headed back to the Chevron and hurried up and
waited. After
about an hour I voted to whip out my laptop and watch a
movie that my passenger had brought along. That worked for about 3 minutes
because the
power adapter on my cig light wasn't able to handle the pull
for the laptop (gotta love Alienware laptops and their power sucking). At about
18:45 I
began to think we were in the wrong place because no one had
yet to magically appear from OBH. I
called my sister and asked her to check Yahoo
to see if I had missed something, and I hadn't. At 19:00
Chris pulled into the Chevron with ?Katana? (his
dog). Shortly thereafter Alan and his wife (Cherise), in a TJ, joined
us in the parking lot.
The six of us and our three rigs headed out at about 19:20
if I remember correctly. We went from the Chevron at the corner of
From the Falls we headed upriver, with all four rigs. In a
short amount of time we arrived at the "base camp" and met up with
Jesse, his Girlfriend,
and M.J. They, Jesse and gang, had brought a camper along
with their rig, and Chris had a travel trailer parked in the same area. We stood
around and
BS'ed for a short time before we headed up the road. I unloaded my extra gear at the trailer and such too. As we headed up the
XJ had some trouble the further up we got, with Chris, Jenn, and Jesse in front
us, whom all sit up very high in comparison to the XJ, we kept having trouble
because we where plowing snow. I thought
about it for a moment and came to the conclusion that we needed Alan in front
of us because he set lower than everyone else, but higher than us. So our
little team shook things up and changed the order around. About this time Chris
realized that he left some things in his trailer and voted to go back. So he
went passed us heading back and we trekked on. Jesse broke the trail for almost
the rest of the night, plowing through snow 10 times bigger than his dog. More like
100 times! Lol. That’s a tiny dog. Both Jesse and Chris spent time breaking
trail.
The night was without any bad things, although we did have a
few problem moments. Jenn's Jeep did give her some trouble about three times
and she had to be dug/ pulled out. It was a
bad night for Mr. Detroit… I kept sliding and crabbing off the side of
the hill.
The XJ ended up at 6 psi for the night and the rest of the trip, worked
wonderfully. Then we had some trouble
when Alan was mildly stuck and threw it in reverse, we were a little close so
we threw the XJ in reverse and backed up. Upon this action we backed ourselves
into a snow bank and became stuck, all the way into 2008. Yes, we spent the first moments of 2008 slogging uphill in
the snow…not even realizing it until Alan let of his 8 shots to let us
know. Jesse came back and put a tow rope on the XJ
and yanked us out, and he proceeded to tow the XJ all the way up the hill. At
about this time he realized that they had left me standing at the bottom of the
hill, without my flashlight. It was very difficult to walk up the hill as my
boots refused to get traction on the tire ruts and the snow was too deep to
walk in. I had a lot of trouble all night with my boots, they caused me to walk
like a drunk even though I hadn't been drinking. Something tells me it's time
to go shopping for boots with better traction (these are almost wore out on the
bottom, have had them three years now. But all and all the Jeep did get unstuck.
Thank you Jesse.
The only other main problems of the night were Chris driving
into a snow bank - this was a _very_ normal
Chris maneuver…lets see how far we can back up this hill…oops,
there is a hole back there. Lol - which can be seen in
Alan's photos, and Jenn's tire coming off.
I had been having troubles and the guys
decided I needed less air. I warned them
that I lose the bead any lower than I was.
Jesse said no problem, his compressor can reseat one. He definitely proved that it can. I had pulled a long turn in reverse while
turning around and rolled the tire right off of the rim. It didn’t
take long for the guys to get it back on and we were all rolling again.. Both
at the same place only seconds after each other. But both where easily fixed by
a group of strapping young men. We voted to have the fire at Chris's Trailer,
so we all headed down the hill towards camp. When we got down the hill Chris
built a fire and put on some great music. We all stood around BS'ing until Alan
had to leave because he had work in the morning. After that I whipped out the
hotdogs, roasted a couple and started force feeding people. The hotdogs left
something to be desired in taste though.
I must say that it wasn’t real cold out on this
night. I mean it was cold, but not super
bad. However my feet were freezing from
all the standing on the ice. I think my
socks gave it up as a bad job.
At about 4:00 we all headed in and hit the racks, in Chris's
lovely trailer, thank you Chris! Chris *claimed* to set the alarm for 7:00ish,
but we all
woke up at about 9:00.
Oh, he did set the alarm… it went
off 3 or 4 different times (he hit snooze).
I heard it. I guess you guys
didn’t. Nathon and I headed down to town
to pick up some fuel and misc. things. We then headed to Chevron to meet up
with the day group. I ran inside and picked up a tube of lip balm, and was
amazed to find that they accepted credit cards on $3 purchases, but then again
I was amazed that a .2 oz tube of lip balm cost $3. (Along with my camera I
also left my cash on the counter at home).
The group then headed up to the staging area, the XJ still
at 6psi. We left the group at the staging area and headed to the trailer; we
bumped into a couple of hunters and made sure they were okay. The group then
came up to the trailer and we all got ready. I got to meet many new people, but
also got to see some familiar faces, Colby, Corey, Todd, Lynn, and some others
that where on the tree trip. Didn't get to talk to Keith much, I hoped to find
out what part of Mac (McMinville) he was from.
I had a newer
We got the chance in the XJ to pull two people out. A sami
and a older Toyota Land Cruiser. Jesse in his
Corey told me that Chris had broke, so I turned around and
went back up to see. I didn’t
realize at the time that Jesse was still majorly stuck. Buried in fact. I missed Keith dumping the sami over, but
Wade got pictures for me. =) Thanks!
Shortly after that the group got together and was getting
ready to make a fire. Rumor had it that Colby chained up the Blazer and headed
up another road. But that was never confirmed, the chaining up part at least.
At this point Nathon was ready to leave so him and I headed down the mountain
and went to the Chevron and aired up the XJ. We then headed towards home. I
dropped Nathon off and made my way home. I got home and was exhausted.
I have given some thought to the group though, I had a
lovely time talking to Jenn but I think that we need to recruit more ladies to
the group. Either
that or we could recruit some single guys for Jenn and me
;). All and all I had a lovely time. It
was absolutely beautiful in that area, the river reminded me of Breitenbush in
September. I really wish I would have remembered my camera, but that only makes me more apt to remember
it in the future. Thank you all, I had a wonderful trip!
Glad to hear you had a good time. It was fun.
After you left people made their way up the direction we
had been headed on the night run and played around in the gravel pit there
– literally a hop and a skip up the road (200 feet?). No fire, too windy up there. The wind was something fierce, and cold. There were plenty of stucks both getting up
there and while playing around. Jesse
had to rescue me out of one deep hole. I
was just sitting there with all 4 spinning.
After a while we headed back to the junction and some of us
got to talking, others headed down the hill in small groups. I was in the last group heading down, and all
went well until I started playing around, slid into the ditch, and needed a
pull out from Robin. After that my front
tire promptly came off the bead.
However, that wonderful group of handsome men came to the rescue and we
got the tire back on and headed down the mountain. Somewhere after that Chris lost his tie rod
again, however it seemed to be a quick fix as they were at the camp only about
5 minutes behind me. I got aired up and
loaded up and then took off for Dugan Falls and then home.
It was a pretty fantastic trip!!!! I had an absolute blast! Thanks to all who came, I didn’t get all
the names or rigs, but we had lots of folks show up, both rigs I had seen
before and ones I have not seen before.