Wednesday 9/16/2020 Zion National Park, we had 10:00 am tickets for the bus, and needed 40 or so minutes to get in the park. Note to self, traffic is stupid in N.P.’s and parking is nearly non existent. Mike & Angie rode with Irish & Tina, and they found a parking spot after circling...

Monday 9/14/2020 My turn in the hot seat (Leading), I chose Wayne’s World as the trail for the day as it held a 4 Rating, a step up from the previous day. We left the RV park and drove into the park ($20/day), hit the staging area and aired down the proceeded to the trail. It should have been...

Sunday 9/13/2020 Irish led us out of town and found a northern entrance to the trails just outside Hurricane Airport. Even with the maps we had downloaded into Gaia GPS it was tough to follow the trail (Sand Hollow for Wimps Rated a 3). The area is mixed in ownership and a sort of free rein...

Friday 9/11/2020 We left at 08:00, three RVs trailering Jeeps headed for Sand Hollow State Park in Hurricane UT. We (Mike & Angie, Irish & Tina, and Mandi and I) made pretty good time pushing through to Springville UT (just below Provo) the first day, farther than we thought we’d get,...

After spending a lovely night in Kamiah’s Hearthstone Lodge, we had a nice breakfast at the Hearthstone Bakery, fueled up and continued west for the final part of our journey. It was temperate outside and we rode in shirt sleeves, across Highway 12, otherwise known as the Lewis &...

Today we travel the Northwest Scenic Byway, after a brief stop at Missoula HD. We left Hamilton, MT and cruised up to Missoula, MT for breakfast, Mandi wanted to eat at Paul’s Pancake Parlor, but when we arrived the wait was like 45 minutes, and I was already fading into Betty White, so...

After a wonderful evening at the Redfish Riverside Inn, we headed southeast to Sun Valley. This put us on the Sawtooth Scenic Byway. It was a beautiful cool ride, we actually had to wear our jacket for the first leg, up over Galena Pass at some 8700 ft, and then down to Ketchum & Sun...

Day 0.5 Kennewick – Ontario Technically we cheated as we ran down from Kennewick , WA to Ontario, OR Wednesday evening (about 3.5 hours), as the temps were in triple digits. As we passed Pendelton, OR it was 107 degrees, for those that don’t ride imagine flying through a giant...

Today we’ll start on an 1100 mile trip into the heart of Idaho, just because we wanted to see what’s there on the bike. Having been cooped up all year, we need to explore, and Idaho/Montana is a perfect place for that. Our planned route; Today – Kennewick, WA –...

So after a nice visit with family friends etc, it’s now time to get home, Mandi will fly out of Pittsburgh, PA, While I jump on my bike and ride home some 2400 miles. I will be covering some ground but taking it easy too when possible. My proposed route back to the house was to be as...

So today we point towards the folks’ house with a few stops along the way, let’s see if we can keep up with everything. We left Port Clinton, I got the chance to meet up and say hi to one of my Air Force buddies Pete Z, in San Duskey, grabbed a quick breakfast and then From here...

DISASTER strikes, our plans to cross over into Canada and drop back into NY were dashed. We got up jumped across the Canadian border declared a weapon… Who knew the Canucks don’t like handguns? Yeah, we got shutdown for doing the right thing and declaring. Anyway it’s now...

Today we travel across to the western shores of Lake Huron in search of a Light House, Ocqueoc Falls, Paul Bunyon, and start looking at crossing through Canada to Niagra Falls. A fun filled day that finishes at Pt. Huron Hilton on the US Canadian border. I have to admit that had we kept our...

Today we get up, and run down to catch a ferry to Mackinac Island, MI. Mackinac Island After a (warm) jaunt around the garrison, we then made our way back to the bike so that we could ride down to Petoskey, MI on the now eastern side of Lake Michigan. We rode through the Tunnel of Trees, a 20...

As we continue our journey the plan for the day is to take in as much scenery, and as many outings as we can fit along side the 280 miles we need to ride. So we start in Menominee and point north heading for Marquette. After our cruise by Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, we travelled NE to...

So we decided our big motorcycle trip of the year (on the new bike) would encompass the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The plan I ride out to Wisconsin, pick up Mandi and hit the whole UP! So I left and high balled it making Butte MT (8/19), the first night, Rapid City, SD (8/20) the next,...

On our way home, as we were rolling up Hwy 97, we decided to hit up a newer trail that we had heard about called Rim Butte, near La Pine OR. Now this trail system is being created with the cooperation of local 4×4 clubs and the USFS, and has some extreme challenges along with easier...

Today we’ll leave the infamous Buck Island and push out the Nevada side of the trail. Word was few had completed the trail this early in the year so we were hoping to be the first club through. However, we ran into cross traffic coming from Tahoe that warned us about deep water...

Every year the club (RattleSnake 4x4s) chooses a destination run, this particular year it was California’s historic Rubicon Trail. With all the news of closing down trails across this nation we wanted to be sure and get this trail done as a club before any legislation or fires made it...

It’s no secret that we love to play in the snow with our Jeeps, my wife says it’s the only time she likes snow, because she can stay warm but see all the beauty it brings, well right up until some gets stuck or breaks something. This go around we would be up the Ahtanum on the...

We decided it was time to go back to Elbe Hills OHV park, being fall on the wet side of the state we knew it would be a wet challenge, and we were right. The pics tell most of the story on there own, but the basics were 4 rigs 3 RVs and a tent made the trip, and we all had a great time...

October of this year was a busy month, as you might see our next run to Elbe Hills here too. This run was to be a simply trip traversing the Naches Trail from west to east, then we also got some time to play at Funny Rocks. It was also a time to look at my tire situation, I had been running...

Just when most folks have had enough snow, we seek it out, because snow wheelin’ is less likely to break stuff compared to rocks… Every year we try to do a run up in the Blue Mtns of OR, when the trails finally open to Jeeps – that’s why we go to Idaho before Easter,...

So a bunch of our club went back up into northern ID, Pritchard ID actually for some deep snow wheeling. We left on Thursday, wheeled Friday & Saturday and headed home on Sunday. The snow was magnificent and hella deep. Unfortunately Mandi had to work, so I had to steal the pics from the...

We were invited along with Black Diamond 4×4 to an impromptu open snow wheeling session on Mountain Mafia’s, Bonner Ferry property to play in the snow. So we did just that. It seemed like a long drive as we didn’t trailer our Jeep Julia, but it was well worth it, and what a...

What started out to be a Cowiche Mill Run, ended up on the opposite side of the mountain… Check out the details and more pics on the forums – https://www.rattlesnake4x4s.com/nu4um/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=268 For now here are some teaser pics…

The Rattlesnake 4X4 Club and Black Diamond 4X4 Parts and Fab of Kennewick, WA teamed up for a Christmas Tree run in Tollgate Oregon. We had a great turnout and enjoyed meeting new 4 Wheelin’ enthusiast. We hope to make this an annual event! I don’t believe anybody actually got...

So I’m in a CAST and Mandi and I get to talking somehow about how Syler our 11 year German Sheppard/Collie mix is slowing down and seems to be having some health problems. So what if we got a younger dog to help him stay youthful as long as possible. She offers I’m gonna be around...

So after our trip to Texas to help after Hurricane Harvey, Mandi & I took a little time off to heal our bank accounts, and it seemed a good time to get some medical work, I’d been putting off for about two years. Hence you may notice a slow down in our activities. It looks like this...

Having spent only 9 days in the area, likened to a war zone we were both physically and mentally exhausted, making our time seem more like a month. We had accomplished many of the goals we set out, and things seemed to be coming back together for the area. Power and water were being...