PNW Chit Chat thread

[Savagefurai]

Yeah, it doesn't work as well when you're related to your boss. Lol

[anthonymax007]

Hey my name is Trent and I live down in Corvallis, Oregon. I just picked up an 88' Alpine Weiss 325is yesterday. Brand new to the forum but excited for it. I was wondering if there was anyone close to me?

I'm in Eugene, actually just moved here from FL. I've seen a few E30's down here.

[Matt-B]

We ended up eating in the dalles camping out in my hood forest. It was nice.

There were a lot of classic cars in the dalles.

Did you by chance go into the dalles Shilo Inn, and ask for a room?

[ajhostetter]

Any activities in the Bend area you recommend? Wife and I are pretty active, kids are 4 and 4 months so that's a bit limiting. We're gonna be camping out down there this weekend and besides the Mt. Bachelor ski lift tour...not sure what else to do exactly. Is the downtown tour worth it?

[Turf1600]

Any activities in the Bend area you recommend? Wife and I are pretty active, kids are 4 and 4 months so that's a bit limiting. We're gonna be camping out down there this weekend and besides the Mt. Bachelor ski lift tour...not sure what else to do exactly. Is the downtown tour worth it?

Proxy falls hike

[ajhostetter]

Proxy falls hike

Um, yes please! Thanks for the recommendation!

[Mlarsen]

Elk lake, seriously. It's perfect.

[Savagefurai]

Holy shit. Robin Williams offed himself. Crazy.

[entiatfan]

Mork?! WAT!?

[the imitator]

About the same time we found out about robin Williams death we were at Yale lake; life flight flew over head and the sheriff boat came cruising across the lake, unfortunately someone lost their 2 year old too :(

Aside from all this we had such a killer time! Definitely gotta do a drive out there. Do a city to Ape cave run, get grub in cougar.. Or do the whole loop down to Stevenson from eagle cliff at the tip of swift.

Hmmm

[Matt-B]

Yea, a guy got ran over by a train, and his daughter drowned, out where I work last month. He was drunk, playing chicken with train, as his 4 year old was in the columbia, unsupervised

[the imitator]

No words for that. Every summer has its share of death, but this year..

[Matt-B]

Yea, he was a Native American, and while I dont judge, a lot of them have alcohol issues.

few weeks ago, a family friend drowned the the lewis River in woodland Wa. No lifevest

[the imitator]

bad stuff, I had a very good friend of mine die in a single car wreck about 2 months ago, and 2 weeks later our friend next door to him was depressed and over did it on a new prescription for xanax. O_o eye opener.

When I lived at the Coast, at Long Beach it was always a stressful situation regarding tourists just jumping into the ocean when we are the regulars going "dude.. the tide is going out right now, come have some food and wait for slack tide." Needless to say, every year you always see the Lifeguard in the air just pacing North to south about twice a year.

Although rip currents can happen anytime, its primarily during out going tide.

[OldDrunkenSailor]

I got carried out in a riptide in Indonesia a month ago. One second I was jumping in the waves, the next I turned around and realized that I was really far away. I got on my back, started kicking as much as I could and after getting pretty exhausted looked back to see that I was just as far as I'd been when I started. The waves kept crashing over me and I realized that I was probably going to die. Made my peace and just kept swimming.

Somehow I made it to shore and couldn't support my own weight while lumbering out of the water. Completely horrifying.