A Muddy Day at Bradley Trails

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.      (we were paddling!)

Jordan and Sabrina getting ready to ride!

We’ve had some nice weather since we arrived in the Pacific Northwest.  It’s not been hot … thank goodness.  Most of all we’ve not had the strong winds we experienced just a few weeks before.  We’ve had intermittent showers and intermittent blue skies.  There have been some chilly mornings but we’re not strangers to chilly mornings.  We had plenty of those in Arizona.

Changing oil

Saturday was especially nice with temperatures flirting around 70-ish.  Sunday was supposed to be nice too.  I was ready to ride the ATVs.  However, at that time I figured we’d need all four ATVs for the riding but we didn’t.  One of the ATVs desperately needed an oil change before it was ready for the trails and at $60 that’s not a cheap thing on a Polaris.  That was just the oil and filter.  The boys were able to do the change themselves!




We also thought we needed to buy a Washington State Discover Pass so we took care of that too.  The Discover Pass in this state is good for two vehicles.  That’s not necessarily the case in other states but we thought it would work good for us.

This is what we saw on the way to the trails.  Doesn’t he look like a friendly fellow?




With three ATVs and five people, we were ready to check out those trails.

Using the staging area at the Bradley Trail site

Then the real “work” began.  The trailer was moved to level ground and the very clean ATVs loaded.  We were only able to take three ATVs with us since that’s all we had room for but the group ended up only consisted of five riders in the end and not as many as we thought.

Muddy Jordan

We figured this would be a good place to practice.  We didn’t expect many riders to be around and there weren’t but we did get to talk to a few.  With so many trails around we did not run into anyone on the trails.  What we did encounter was mud and more mud and more mud.

Some places Lee tackled the mud .... other places it tackled him.  Some were easy rides and others a little more difficult.

That was another new experience and an absolute blast!!  Matter of fact it was one of the most fun rides I had ever had.  I think I say that every time we get  a new experience riding. Again, it was a blast.  There are several other places around here that I want to go but I’m sure we will definitely be back.

Yours truly!!

We had a little company at the trails.  Two trucks using the staging area to take pictures.  One of the boys had bought a “new” truck so he wanted pictures of both of them together.




The ATVs were clean when they left.  They didn’t come back so clean.  However, neither did we.





Terry wanted no part of riding In the mud.  This is about as close to the muddy ATVs he wanted to be.  Lee put him in charge of clean-up.  With a good pressure washer it wasn’t so bad.





Our summers are so different than our winters but we always seem to be busy.  We look forward to the wonderful summers somewhere in the Pacific NW and to the winters  in the south. 

‘Tis life on the road.