Exploring Washington: Part III

"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
09/29/2020 at 18:41 • Filed to: Washington, ZR2

Took the ZR2 on it’s first off-road adventure last weekend to explore a bit of southeastern Washington.

We stayed at a friend’s a cabin near Dayton most of the weekend . It was nice. We saw turkey and deer at the cabin, and Dexter and I proceeded to chase them with all our might.

Had a great breakfast sandwich from Moose Creek Cafe & Bakery; would recommend .

On Saturday, we made it only to to the marked location. I wanted to do the full route from Dayton to Walla Walla as Google only predicted it to be a few hours, but when we got to the serious off-road bits and the mph dropped into the teens I knew we weren’t prepared and decided to turn around. I’d like to go back and do the full route some day soon .

This was parked at an angle of 15 ° , or so my truck told me.

Boy off roading is exciting! I wasn’t even doing anything crazy, but it felt good going to a place most cars won’t ever follow. Probably trying out a trail near Rimrock next time; I’m up for a convoy if any other PNW fancy driving off road?

Took Dexter swimming in the Columbia river at the Tri-Cities on our way home; he loved it.

He loves his head out the window. Wined like crazy when the road got all bumpy though; not sure if he didn’t like it or just wanted to get out of the car and explore on paw.

A ll wet from playing fetch in the river near the cabin.

Hero shot.

Dexter likes the truck best.

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I think the next excursion will be camping. Does anyone have any tents or general camping supplies they recommend? Here’s what’s on the short list:

3+ person t ent / truck-bed tent? (we have a gift card to REI that we might use for this)

JiffyPop

A knife / multi-tool

Also on the recommendation theme, does anyone have anything they suggest for off- roading? Here’s what’s on the short list:

traction boards

shovel

LED headlights

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DISCUSSION (4)

wafflesnfalafel > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/29/2020 at 19:28

worked with a guy that grew up in Dayton, picked asparagus on the farms out there.... gorgeous country

fintail > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/29/2020 at 20:08

Small world, I have family in Dayton. My cars aren’t really suited for more than a gravel driveway, however.

I’m going to be fully based out of Spokane in a few weeks, looking forward to driving the country roads.

CivicWagonEngineer > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/29/2020 at 20:14

Seems like there is a lot of Washington Oppos (myself included)! I’m kinda new here so still learning about everyone on here. When this whole pandemic thing is over we should do a little Oppo meet up

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/29/2020 at 23:44

Small world. Big State.