Labor Day weekend sent Garrick and Melody in two very different directions.
Garrick heads into the woods near Lake Wynoochee for a rare night trail run, putting the 4Runner’s lights to work on a forest route that gets a little tighter and darker with every mile. The weekend continues with a run around the Wynoochee area alongside a group of motorcycles, some surprisingly fun technical terrain, and a collection of waterfalls worth getting out of the rig to see.
Meanwhile, Melody heads east to tackle Sections 7 and 6 of the Idaho BDR. She breaks down what the northern Idaho route is actually like in a 4x4, from freshly cleared downed trees and rocky roads to limited camping, shelf roads, and an uncomfortably close encounter between a motorcycle and Zach’s Gladiator. She also compares the experience with the Idaho Traverse and explains which route she’d choose for a 4x4 trip.
Before hitting the trail, Melody also shares her latest 4Runner storage project: turning a Plano rifle case into a low-profile rooftop recovery gear box and figuring out how to securely mount it to a Gobi rack.
Plus, random recommendations bring us a surprisingly great jam-band concert, a podcast about side hustles that actually talks numbers, an unfortunate Owala smell problem, and one very important unanswered question: Does Garrick’s third-gen 4Runner have a crotch fan?
All that and more on Episode 52 of Remote Trails™ Radio.
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