>>1072587Hadn't heard of the WABDR but looking at it I did about the lower 1/3 of it around Mt Adams, camped at this spot just East of the route -
>>1072571The rest of the way through WA I was West of that route towards the middle of the Cascades, roughly around where the PCT route is. Are you on a moto or in a truck? If you're on a moto there's good trails off that route around Council Lake, and you can poach some of the PCT in the off season. I never set out to do an exact route, we stop at ranger stations and get Vehicle Use Maps which show all forest roads/trails, then pick areas that look interesting due to water, geography, lots of elevation gain, or just near something cool. Traveled about 3200 miles on this trip.
>>1072614Yeah can't beat it, it's called a Flippac. It has some downsides, the torsion bar it uses can break and the way the fiberglass is bedded around bare steel causes really hard to fix issues. The company that made them went out of business, but still holds the patents so there's really no other good options. Adventure Trailers is making something called the Habitat but it's $10k the way I would spec it, flips backwards which sucks, and doesn't open the easy way the Flippac does with the torsion bar. I'm selling this truck but going to hang on to the Flippac, unsure if I'm going to get another 6' bed truck and using it or going another route like a JK Habitat Jeep.
>>1072647Ever heard of an Oregonian Spring Snake? They are only a foot long but can strike over 30 feet, shooting out like a coil spring from a Harbor Freight spring compressor.
>>1072654Crater Lake is cool but no offroad access or non-pleb backcountry around it unfortunately, just drove through to snap the pics.
