Myself and some friends went camping last week to Tillamook State Forest and camped at Browns Camp. It was the first time I have been there and definitely will not be the last. We rolled into camp Wednesday night at about 11pm. Wheeled Thursday, Friday and Saturday then loaded up Sunday and headed home. We had a great time. Between the whole group we had two trailer flats, two lost mufflers, one broken power steering pump, one broken front axle ujoint, one ripped off fender and one ripped off valve stem. All pretty easy and fairly inexpensive fixes. We ran Powerline, University Firepower, Cable trail, firebreak 5, saddle up, down airplane hill, hogs back, hood raiser, archers firebreak and of course waterfall. There may have been more but I got so lost I just followed the spare tire in front of me. Anyway, here are some pic's.
Camp

My dog chillaxin'

waiting for Greg to find the next trail

Jeremy coming up can opener

James on waterfall


Jeremy and I reattaching my muffler to the jeep


ready for the trail ride back to camp

bushwacker getting reattached

me going up waterfall

 

poser shot under the tree on Cedar trail

Going up Firebreak 5




this thing has rediculous flex

posing on the last rock of firebreak 5

more shots coming up firebreak 5




me posing on the firebreak 5 rock

 

Random rock garden that runs along the trail, i believe this is on cedar trail


coming down a long rocky hill on Hogs Back

the filter going in the top of Airplane hill

hanging the front tire

coming down airplane hill

airplane hill is a long, nasty sucker, there are no pictures of me coming down because I put my man card in my wifes pocket and took the go around, it was ugly




the filter at the bottom of airplane hill, i fell in love with these rock gardens, they were the funnest parts for me

 

parked along the ridge below 7up hill. we walked up it to look at it. another nasty hill climb

a fun hill climb, i believe this was on archers firebreak, might have been Saddle up

coming down Rocky uphill (yep thats the trail name)

bolder humping while we waited for Greg to find the start of Archers Firebreak



waiting to find a trail again


Jeremy trying Can opener. it was way to wet and muddy this time, Jeremy is already talking about heading back down there to tackle this one again


my team was wore out by sunday. They slept in the back while I drove home.

 

I cant believe I missed out on that! Looks like a great time, i'm hoping to get down there this summer....

 

Awesome pics Mark! Next year is when I'll get to go crazy with upgrades, maybe then I could join you guys more often.

 

Great pics of a great run, thanks Mark. Loved seeing the Rvs in the first couple of pics, that's what I want to do with my camper. Any chance your group will want to camp and run Liberty or Naches later this summer? Disappointed to see that your 09 Rubi on 35 MTRs (like mine) couldn't make the waterfall. Loved the muffler recovery pic! Gonna have to blame driver choice of line till I get to try it next time. Thanks for posting a great trip report

 

There are talks of going to naches the last weekend of this month. I'll keep ya in the loop. It wasn't for lack of trying to make waterfall. Even James on 37's didn't make it. Only Greg in his bronco on 39's and Jeremy in his Sami on 37's made it.

 

Thanks for sharing, great pics!

 

wow, this really does look awesome down there. some very chalenging obstacles. do you have a link to trail maps, getting there, etc.

and let me know about Naches. that's the last weekend before heading to rubicon, so my last chance to give all the equipmet a test run.