Eastern Washington Off Road

All Wheelers Off Road Club -
"Do The Dew!" Run
July 4th, 2009

This year’s "Do the Dew!" Run I was not able to ride my quad because of my bad back hurt too much.
Here are the pictures I did get a long with a few on the run we went on.

The quad and bike riders getting ready at Tree Phones.


And the 10 riders are off to “Do the Dew!”




We decided to head down to the store to get some thing to help our sick 3 year old son.
On the way back we went up the Ahtanum South Fork Road.
We found Hercules' (one of our members) horses were out running down the road.
We stopped and helped his sister get the horses back home.


Once we got up on Sedge Ridge we added Green Dots to the 6 new markers we had place on the last trail work party.


We took the Sedge Ridge Crest Trail back down to see if any other repairs were needed.
We headed back to Tree Phones to eat lunch and to get Luna for the next run.
This next run was from Tree Phones to Jackass Road @ the Gray Rock Trail and then back.
We had to time it to see how long it takes to get there since we are doing an aid station for the 50 K runners on July 11th, 2009.

We headed up the Mid Fork Road up onto Darland Mountain.
The views were not bad for how hazy it was.

Mt. Adams


Mt. St. Helens


We dropped off of Darland Mountain and ran into a big snow drift on the North Fork Road.
It was fun crossing the big drift.

Next we headed up the Blue Lake Trail.
Up passed Blue Lake I waited for Luna to climb the hill with her quad.
Here is a picture of Mt. Adams from there.


We got up on FS1020 and ran it onto Jackass Road to the Gray Rock Trail crossing.
It took 1 hour and 20 minutes to get there from Tree Phones by the way of Darland Mountain.

We back tracked pass Blue Lake. We did not want to stop there because of the swarms of mosquitoes.
We stopped for a break down the trail before the North Fork Ahtanum Road.


We ran the North Fork Ahtanum Road down to the Whites Ridge Cross-over trail and back to Tree Phones on the Mid Fork Road.

After dinner we headed back down the Mid Fork Road, up A-2400, A2420, A1490 and then down A1200 (Boulder Trail) to the view point over Tampico.
This is where we watched the firework shows in the valleys below.


The big fire work shows look small from there but it was a lot of fun for the family.
After the show we went back to Tree Phones to sleep.

The next morning (Sunday) we just could not take the mosquitoes anymore.
The mosquitoes were worse than I have even seen them.
The mosquito repellent products did not stop them from eating us up.
We threw everything in the XJ and camper and headed down to the Ahtanum Sno-park to cook breakfast.
It was hotter there but we did not get one mosquito bite there.

This was a great weekend thanks to the people who came.

Oh PS: We decided against camping at Tree Phones for the 50 K Run.
We plan to just go up from the bottom by the way of Jackass Road.

I got eaten alive at sarge Hubbard park, And my wife who sat right next to me didn't get bit once

The All Wheelers "Do theDew" Part II

We left Tree Phones parking lot at 10:30am and headed up and over Darland Mt. coming down the other
side we came accross these fun snow drifts that slowed the bikes down but everyone loved the snow
with the heat!

The group coming in to the snow.


MrFixIt get's off to heckle Fireman for sticking his bike.


Waycrazy getting through with only a little fall.


Nevada sitting pretty waiting on the rest.


Test Dummy Motoring over the drift with easy followed by others.



After the drifts we had 2 other groups of quads and Utv's headed in to Blue Lake with us.

We lined up for the traditional group shot at the Blue Lake waters edge.
(Left to Right) MrFixIt, Fireman, Waycrazy, Bobstar, Jeepscum, Nevada, Test Dummy, Sparky, Hercules, & Ray


We left and headed up 615 to the Jackass Rd The hill was loose and Fireman dropped his bike and it flooded.
So while we fixed his bike the others went on up to the cabin where it was getting warm.



After the regroup at the cabin we left for the 613 trail head. When we hit the road a few riders picked up speed
and over looked the trail head. We waited for awhile for the others to come back but we started the trail for
them to catch us later down the trail. It was nice to see a litle shade and water on the trail with the heat
we were riding in. this was at the end of the meadows just wide enough for the quads to make.


When we got to the bold burn complex inthe trail we ran into a group from the other side of the mountains.
This TJ had a Seattle Rump Bumpers decal on it. I took more pic of this group to come but dial up is no fun for reports.
We say a very nice CJ-3b in the group coming towards us and I recognized the owner as the jeep historian and collector
George The Jeep this was cool to see a northwest off road icon on our trail. (Pic to come)


After the group passed the rest of our group caught up with us.


We head up to the Louie Gap/ Gray Rock sign post and decided it was time to call this run and get everyone
off the mountain cause it was hot and we had a bit of carnage that I thought better than to retrace our trail
so we headed down to Nasty Creek Rd and ran it to the Corals before turning up Nasty Creek Flats and following
it to the Jackass rd and headed back to camp.

I would like to thank everyone for participating on this ride even though we didnt finish our planned
route. Everyone returned safe with a few bruises and sore muscles. Thanks Everbody!

Thanks Jeepscum for leading the group! I had a great time and look forward to more adventures ! I do have to admit that after not rideing for about 10-15 years 73 miles kicked my butt. LOL Kinda made me feel a bit old but I am ready to go again.

I may be biased , but I think you are in your prime

great run report Jeep scum, thanks.

Great report Jeepscum. Thanks for being the Trail Boss on this run.

I see we need to do some trail maintenance at the lower meadow again.

Looks like a fun run

Great report everyone!


Hey Coleman.... The skito's feed on the weak, sucks for you