Throwback Thursday

Aerosled · Feb 16, 2017

Local area dare devil Terry Star, Snowmobile Jumping King, AKA Tubin' Terry. Republic, WA 1977. 103.2 feet, Crashed and broke his ankle.

Graves Mt. Lookout, 14 miles west of kettle Falls WA. 1976. It was moved to Colville WA in 1985 and relocated on a hill next to the Keller Histotical Museum.

Terry Star Republic WA 103.2 feet Crashed.jpg

Aerosled · Feb 23, 2017

Unimog clearing the Bare Mountain road on the Wind River Ranger District, out of Stabler WA, May 1976. So the tree planters can get over to Canyon Creek to plant clear cuts. There was a brass plate on the dash with the maximum speed for each gear combination. With all the gear boxes in low it was in Feet per Hour.

Cabin at Conrad Meadows on the upper south Fork of the Tieton River, 1990.

Wil-Lee's Cafe 1971. On the Bumping lake road off Chinook Pass. 1971 Ski Doo Elan. The first year they were made.

Table Mountain just north of Lion Rock above Ellensburg, 1982. The old Cross Buck fence is still standing along the rim. In the summer you can still parts of it laying on the ground.

Aerosled · Mar 2, 2017

Bear lake cabin 1972. It's at the head waters of Oak Creek off the White pass highway. That's Less Brown. He owned the used Jeep lot on Fruitvale in Yakima. This was the last time I was up there. I wonder if the cabin is still standing. That'a a 1971 Blizzard Elan, AKA Minnie Blizzard.

Cabin at Blankenship Meadows (Mosquito Valley) between White Pass and Chinook Pass. 1973

Cleman Mt. Lookout 1972. It was only four years old in this photo. It replaced the ground house in 1967. One of the tower leggs broke over the winter so it was torn down in 2007. More here http://www.firelookout.com/wa/cleman.html

Aerosled · Mar 16, 2017

A couple more . Umatilla NF in NE Oregon, 1993. Collecting Scion from the tops of Western Larch (Tamarack). Scion is small branches. "Vegetative Reproduction- Larch does not reproduce by sprouts. Cuttings have been successfully rooted by researchers at the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station..." https://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/Volume_1/larix/occidentalis.htm

Burning logging landing top piles on the Winema NF in South Central Oregon. 1999.

These are real jobs. Picnic in the woods every day

Collecting Scion Heppner OR Jan 1993.jpg

Collecting Scion2 Heppner OR Jan 1993.jpg

trikerider · Mar 16, 2017

Five pictures taken north of Ellensburg (Naneum Ridge, Table Mountain) and one from our yard.

Chadly · Mar 17, 2017

It blows my mind to think that at one time people thought riding those sleds was as good as it gets

Very Cool Pictures! Thanks for sharing.

Aerosled · Mar 17, 2017

The same fence shown in trikerider's post. Sept. 2015

plumnuts · Mar 17, 2017

Chadly said:
It blows my mind to think that at one time people thought riding those sleds was as good as it gets

Very Cool Pictures! Thanks for sharing.

There was very little grooming and you got into trouble you had to get yourself out as there was very little rescue organizations...(not to mention calling for help, meant someone riding out and then driving out to a payphone and calling the operator and telling them you needed help). Very few sheriff's offices had organized search and rescue for winter operations.. .usually meant calling some people that have sleds and going in... if really bad trying to get the air force or the WA National Guard (181 Heli-Med) to go in by helicopter to pull people out... and sleds were not very reliable so you always carried bailing wire and misc. bolts and nuts... and carried enough tools to conduct an engine overhaul in the field :eyebrows:

Down in the parking lot most tow rigs were pickup trucks (or cars), 2 wheel drive so you always carried chains..

trikerider · Mar 21, 2017

Found a few more when i was 16 years old, our club would haul a trailer and set it on 50 gallon barrels (fist pic). You can only see the top of the trailer.

Adventurer2014 · Mar 21, 2017

trikerider said:
Found a few more when i was 16 years old, our club would haul a trailer and set it on 50 gallon barrels (fist pic). You can only see the top of the trailer.

Cool pics Trikerider! Love seeing the old Ski Doo Formula (what I learned to ride on) and I bet that sled deck was a rare sight back in those days!

plumnuts · Mar 22, 2017

wish I had that Yamaha free air...

n16ht5 · Mar 23, 2017

this is my favorite thread.

Lake Cle Elum · Mar 23, 2017

Ski-Doo photo taken a week ago in the Big Horns...

Aerosled · Mar 24, 2017

That Hog track pulling a Fold-A-Sled reminds me of something.

Ravens Roost

Ski Dooing generator fuel for the army

In May of 1971 the army was conducting war games on the Yakima Firing center. They slung an air portable radio shack up to Ravens Roost with a Chinook to relay communications between Yakima and Fort Lewis. It took 50 gallons of diesel fuel per day to run the generators.

The mountains were socked in with fog for about a week and the helicopter couldn’t get in to resupply the fuel. The army called the Naches Ranger Station and asked if they had someone that could help them get some fuel up to Ravens Roost. I was picked for the task.

They showed up about 2:00 in the afternoon. There was a Sargent and a Colonel. The Sargent was driving a deuce and a half with the fuel in 5 gallon Gerry cans and a Massey Ferguson Ski Whiz they had rented in Yakima. The Colonel was driving a triumph TR3. Neither had and experience with snowmobiles. I had a two wheel drive pickup with a 1970 399 Ski Doo twin track (hog track) and a fold-a-sled...to be continued
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Aerosled · Mar 24, 2017

Ravens Roost continued

I figured the Colonel would park the TR3 and ride up in the deuce and a half but he drove his sports car. About 4 miles up the Ravens Roost road we hit the first snow bank. Sarge broke through it good enough that I could get my two wheel drive pick up through then the Colonel hit it about 60 and slid on through in his TR3. This...sarge busting snow banks and I in my pickup then the Colonel in his TR3 following continued a couple more miles until we came to a snow bank about 10 feet deep that Sarge couldn’t bust through. It was May so the snow was really soft that late in the day.

We parked there and unloaded. I pulled the fold-A sled full of Gerry cans with the hog track, the Colonel rode the Ski Whiz, and Sarge rode on back of the sled dog sled style. There were patches of bare ground anywhere from 100 yards to a quarter mile long between the snow banks now. I came off one of the snow banks going pretty fast. When the sled hit the bare gravel road the hitch pin on the sled broke. Sarge did a superman over the sled and landed head first about 10 feet in front of the sled. His forehead was cut pretty bad.

I tried to talk those two out of continuing but they wouldn’t hear of it. We bandaged Sarge's head up and continued. I was in the lead. Just above Huckleberry campground where the road always gets drifted in I took the underground power line road that goes straight up the ridge to the peak. It had some pretty big drifts. After busting a couple of those with the hog track and sarge hanging on for all he was worth...and that was a Lot...I stopped. The Colonel was having trouble staying on the ridge and getting over the drifts with the Ski Whiz too.

Continued...
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Aerosled · Mar 24, 2017

Ravens Roost continued...

 I unhooked the sled and put one five gallon Gerry can on each side of the hog track in front of my feet. I told them to wait there and I would shuttle the cans up to the top two at a time. That worked beautiful but on about the 4th trip back to the stopping spot I bumped the sled with the hog track and it turned sideways and headed off the north side of that ridge. It was a steep open slope for about a quarter mile then solid timber at the bottom. The sled disappeared into the timber. There was still four full gerry cans on the sled.

I told sarge and the colonel to not worry about the sled and to not even try to go down to check on it. I Took Two of the last four Gerry cans that weren’t on the sled up to the radio shack on top of the peak. When I got back to the stopping spot sarge was there waiting but the Colonel wasn’t. I asked where he was and sarge said “Down there looking for the sled”. After a bit the Colonel came out of the trees at the bottom of the slope. He was pulling the sled. He hollered “The sleds okay. It hit a tree and blew the bottoms out of the Gerry cans”.

About the time the Colonel made it up to the ridge a helicopter buzzed us. It was a Military jet ranger. They landed and motioned me over to the helicopter. He said the top of the peak was clear now. I gave him the last two fuel cans to shuttle up to the top.

So there you have it. If anyone ever finds or hears about the Gerry cans with the bottoms blown out at the bottom of the slope just above Huckleberry camp ground you know how they got there.
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Aerosled · Mar 30, 2017

4 Yamaha Enticers and a Ski Doo Citation, Bald Mt. About 1987 I think.

Little bald Garage July 1992 and 2016 after it was converted to a snowmobiler's warming hut.

Little bald garage Snowmobiling warming hut.jpg

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