Washington Veeky Forums?

>Also are all these forest roads paved? Im sure some of them arent.

There was one Meet in the distant past that was a bit rugged. However, there hasn't been anything particularly rugged this year in terms of road hazards such as potholes, drop offs, rocks, flying debris that chips paint or windshields. We've had none of that. And it seems everyone wants it that way. Besides, we're in WA. There's no point on going into such terrain when there are so many other scenic drives to go on.

>How many washfags are there up here?
You can look up that census thread. Or look at past archived WA meet threads.

>Whats the car culture up here like?
There's various cruise-ins like the one in auburn, so it's not all concentrated around seattle. The previous Meet thread had a link to a weekly cruise-in over in the Redmond / Kirkland / Bellevue area for higher-end cars. That one takes a winter break (rainy season) though, so you'll want to catch it before the summer/fall season is over.

A lot of the WA Meet people didn't make any entries on the census. So it would be quite inaccurate as a way of looking at Meet attendees. Because the Meeters are pretty much not on it, the census could even be thought of as a list of people who don't go to WA Meets.

>I know meets happen
Hopefully there will be another one soon. In the meantime, I will probably go visit the Cornfield maze and also take a drive up to Vancouver BC.

>Hopefully there will be another one soon.
Same here.
I missed the previous two Meets. Pissed about that but schedules.

>I just moved up for school

Which school? The programming school for game writing? It's an intense dedicated 2 year program but has a high immediate hiring rate for its graduates.

Bunch of ricers. If you like teh v8 or some exotic stuff hit up xxx root beer on any given sunny weekend. Foods good anyway and there's usually one group or another meeting there.

>Whats the car culture up here like?

There's lots of cruise-in groups in the various cities. There's also more formalized groups for car owners (aka corvette owners group, camaro owners group) or rare/antique car collectors. Some cities such as Renton host public annual car shows of collectible cars where parts of city streets are blocked off to provide a venue for display and discussion about the cars, restoration process, etc.. Some meet at restaurants, or move around to different parking lots. Some are established weekly or monthly meets where many cars cruise by. You don't find these in seattle due to lack of open parking lot space. These cruise-in meets are in the suburb cities.

Example of a suburb seattle semi-organized cruise-in Meet spot:
triplexrootbeer.com/

Your friend is the Summer season. Your enemy is the Winter rainy season which gave Seattle its "rains every day" reputation. You get a whole season of rain if you live in the convergence zone. And sometimes you get rain in the convergence zone while just 10 miles away it is sunny day.

>Whats the car culture up here like?
Lots of car groups up here. There's even a Toyota MR2 owners group. Of course, the usual other groups such as CRX owners, VW owners, and Miata owners. Some groups are involved enough to have multi-day events in cooperation with other related groups in nearby cities.

Not all groups are "ricers", "kids", or "boomers". Some are a mix of working age adults with kids that simply enjoy their personal cars such as the local Miata group.

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Ellensburg here. Beautiful roads....

Let's Have A Road Trip !

Maryhill Loop is pretty GOAT and I want to run it sometime.

Here's a pic of my old "crew" before I left WA for work. I miss this state.

Shit forgot this
vimeo.com/51577249

Get in the WA kik chat if you want.

>/WA/ uses KIK for the offline Meet conversations (and other stuff as well). Although some people still don't use KIK

I assume the next Meet is being worked out on KIK right now. Can someone post some summary of what is going on?

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The car culture isnt too bad. If you want a good weeaboo fest go to the movie theater in renton/kent by the hospital and friday or saturday night around 1130-12. If you want more oldschool shit hit up covington, the race track is close by and alot of really cool well restored cars are around. the covington car meet is by mcdonalds every friday night any warm day.

My shit might even run before the end of winter keep an eye out

I live in Port Orchard. Pretty much a bizarre Twin Peajs level weird for car owners.

>kik
>offline

No planning going on at this point, if you want to help plan and coordinate another meet sooner feel free.

Nigga you stalking me?

Probably, except I don't know who this is

Yeah you do.

We have been talking about doing a multi day camp and drive and going on the north Cascade hwy towards ID or going out on the peninsula and taking 101 down the coast

I figured but muh anonymous

Did I reply to you in another thread too?

Also, 101 is pretty in spots but a pretty boring drive. You guys should go do Hurricane ridge or go find this blown up dam

Or ruins porn. Too bad there are no abandoned missile silos to explore.

>We have been talking about doing a multi day camp and drive and going on the north Cascade hwy towards ID or going out on the peninsula and taking 101 down the coast

A multi-day camp with a motel/hotel stopover is fine with me. I'm not up for camping in a tent though. I think civilization has spoiled me especially being able to have a warm shower before I go to sleep and a hot shower when I wake up.

meetup?

damn we need one in colorado

the More Skids guys are from Washington

Don't a be a bitch, you can bring a bucket and splash around in that if you can't skip a shower.

Went driving at Long Beach this past weekend

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i'm definitely down for a full weekend trip. flying season is pretty much over now, and i havent gone camping at all this year

A fuck ton of subie bros, particularly in and around Snoqualmie. A lot of dorifto fans in the area too but you rarely see anyone do it on the road. Cops here don't fuck around with street shenanigans. Evergreen Speedway in Monroe holds open drift usually twice a month from April to October. The community is pretty good and the car shows aren't bad. There's some serious dudebroing and vapfaggotry though. Bellevue is great for car spotting if that's your thing, but be ready for some of the worst driving you will ever encounter.
This. The 101 loop is fantastic once you get west of Port Angeles. Also the drive out to Cape Disappointment is pretty nice, but as the name implies it's not much to see at the end. Decent food in the area though.
That looks nice man. Last time I was out there was in December of last year.

You're asking to get stuck, friendo

Finally bought a 1987 300e after being carless for over a year. Might actually go to the next Veeky Forums meet, even if my car isn't really an enthusiast one.

Seattle U, full of SJWs

Yeah they live right by me, like within 10 mins. I have yet to meet them in person tho

>You're asking to get stuck, friendo
It would be amusing if there was a Meet. The pack leader storms out onto Long Beach. Everyone else follows the leader. Suddenly everyone is stuck. It's low tide but now the tide comes in. The only car that escapes is the lightweight Miata.

Covington car meet? I live like 5 minutes from there also only ever see teens with lifted trucks and teens with riced cars doing donuts.

Where the heck would we meet in Covington, Fred Meyers?

>tfw was there for the 2013 Flash Mod Car Meet at South Center

The Rainier Run this past summer also had the convenient starting rally point at a group of shops (restaurant, gas station) with Fred Meyer (opens at 7AM). It's nice to get snacks and gas up.

And the one asshole who keeps taking a bike :^)

>implying i cant just toyota meme control my way to victory

youtu.be/BMzlXDf07kQ

We have multiple bikes.

>And the one asshole who keeps taking a bike :^)
I remember the WAT_Bike and the Ducatti in this Meet picture.

Ahh yeah I forgot hyperanon has come to more than one meet.

I miss the ones organized on kik since I don't have it running all the time. Shit wrecks my otherwise amazing phone battery.

Should I just text you when we have a meet coming up?

Washington a best

That would be helpful. I've been trying to pay more attention as well as look for threads.

>I miss the ones organized on kik since I don't have it running all the time.
Ahh, I don't use kek at all (and won't in the future) so I depend on Veeky Forums posts about Meets. If I look at anything else, it would be in Discord type forums where posts hang around for everyone's convenience.

>Shit wrecks my otherwise amazing phone battery.
Just use one of those cheap external battery packs with the cellphone's USB. There are some really thin lightweight usb power cables out there so the cable doesn't get in the way. Some packs use replaceable AA NiMH batteries, so they are incredibly cheap to replace and recharge batteries as they wear out.

Since the phone uses power from the USB first, the cycling lifespan of your expensive-to-replace internal cellphone battery is preserved.

>Washington a best
In planning more Meets, it may be useful to look at each county entry for its attractions. Too bad all their chamber of commerce listings aren't in one convenient spot.

It's usually the local chamber of commerce that populates those motel and hotel information racks with all those local maps and listing of local attractions. With the rise of internet, those racks have mostly disappeared though. That's too bad since those racks were often the source of a free basic local road map.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Washington

>i'm definitely down for a full weekend trip.
>We have been talking about doing a multi day camp

I don't mind roughing it if there's an Embassy Suites along the way.

We could do what the stancefags do and drive up the Leavenworth then down to Ellensburg to bully CWU guy's boi pucci.

If it's a rainy day, would it be called off? OR would a rainy day Meet be done to take advantage of the rain? At least the big car museum near the Tacoma Dome could be visited since that would use up some indoor time which rain doesn't affect. And someone mentioned the tacoma area had homeless wandering the parking lots, but those won't be out in the rain in the museum lot.

I know there are some minuteman sites in Montana, but probably not abandoned just yet

Hey, I was there for that

>live in WA
>don't comfy cruise in the rain
What kind of pleb are you?

Fuck yeah! That looks like a row or 2 away from where I was parked.

Seattle as a whole is filled with sjws

>If it's a rainy day
At the Elwha station location of the Olympic National Park (Olympic Peninsula), the rainy season is basically mid-October to the 3rd week of March. Picture has the rainfall summary.

Im in skagit. Pretty chill and scenic here but pretty far north

if you dont currently or in the past ever have ownd a truck or a honda, youre a faggot in my book.

Did you buy that Typhoon from Kompact Kar Korner?
I've only ever seen one in this state, and it was there.

Don't forget that Boeing has tours of their jet airplane assembly factory in Everett. Is a plane vehicle related? But for a whole group of us, that would mean we'd have to know the Meet date well in advance in order to reserve airplane factory tour slots at the same time/date. None of this one or two week notice before the Meet date stuff.

>Hey, I was there for that
The next time there is a good winter windstorm, I'm going out on the floating bridges across Lake Washington to experience the waves crashing over the road deck. Anyone know which bridge (520 vs I-90) gets the biggest waves?

The I-90 floating bridge sank in a november storm. The contractor decided to save money by pumping contaminated material for storage inside the floating pontoons holding the bridge up. The contractor deemed it safe because the bridges were over-engineered.

The bridge sank.

In the investigation the contractor said it was not their fault that data proving the contractor was at fault had disappeared out of both the company records and the state's own duplicated records. Achoocorruption Achoo. The taxpayers had to pay for closing out the aborted repairs, buy out any contract terms they were still responsible for, and pay for cleanup. After that, the taxpayers then had to pay for a replacement floating bridge.

Sinking of the I-90 Floating Bridge across Lake Washington
youtube.com/watch?v=gm0YQ3vuyyY

I-90 touches the water. 520 does not.
I 90 will have a much better chance of you getting wet.

520 got rebuilt. Everything has switched to toll since you last remembered it. If you don't have a scannable passcard inside your car, you'll pay a higher toll fee.

Replacement 520 Floating Bridge (opened 2016)
wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR520Bridge/About/BridgeFacts.htm

>I-90 touches the water. 520 does not.

The 520 floating bridge is not as scary as it used to be. The new replacement bridge has more engineering in it than the old one. So the old 520 was the "best" bridge to go on during the winter storms. That's because the road edge was VERY CLOSE to the actual edge of the bridge. Thus a strong wind could pick up a whole 5-foot chop and fling it onto your car. You say 5-foot waves are small. Sure, but the old 520 road deck was just 7 feet above the water. Your car was genuinely close to the water. This new 520 bridge was built by nanny carebears. It's too safe now.

On the old bridge in a storm, your visibility was limited and you could scrape your car on the railing which made for nail biting excitement. That made the old 520 bridge the "best" bridge to go on during a strong wind storm.

I think we should go to the museum of flight. Shit is cool.

It's a lot of fun up there.

Nah that's not mine unfortunately. This is my Camaro at the meet, after it moved to Dick's when we got kicked out of the parking lot kek.

I know you guys have had bikes in the past but my bike is really the only vehicle I have worth a shit. Would it be really out of place for me to show up on one? Assuming it's not the dead ass middle of winter.
Anyone up near Everett?

bikes are fine

i've got a full bed in the back of my rig now, so i'm good with a hotel stay or a campout.

South Everett reporting in

Nice, I live near the home depot on 99.

I live on Casino Road

This guy looks kinda like young Layne Staley

I was just there on a trip!

So many people I got stuck there. There was one guy hauling ATVs in his minivan and we tried to stop him getting out of the parking lot

"Nah bro I know what im doing"

And he got stuck within 2 feet and proceeded to dig himself deeper

>Lame Staley

Poor guy.

I'm by explorer middle school, work on casino

Im pretty sure I've seen your crown vic a couple times heading to work, unless theres another ex Seattle pd vic around here

silverlake fag here

>I live on Casino Road
Godspeed user.

I drive a black Prelude with red front wheels and A yellow WAT sticker on the back windshield.
Usually commute down or around airport, occasionally heading up 99

i think i may have seen you on airport. i fly out of paine on saturday mornings, so i'm in the area a lot

Those people are great, we saw a guy out in beverly a few years back that got 3 different trucks stuck trying to get a dead bike and would just get out and walk back to get the next Truck

>Don't forget that Boeing has tours of their jet airplane assembly factory in Everett.

Appointment type attractions are difficult for larger groups. While Boeing makes accomodations for families to tour together, when it is individuals in a group, it takes long lead time because a lot of slots may be filled up for a particular time of day. Something like this could work for the /hou/ group which is less random with people who commit to showing up.

Sounds like Long Beach would be a place a lot of people simply cannot drive their cars onto. Especially since all of us except the laco would have A/S tires that cut the sand instead of ATV tires compressing and floating on the sand.

I managed to take my vstrom out around on the beach riding 2up with road tires and didn't get stuck.
Beach sand is pretty sticky and firm due to the debris, moisture and salt, the biggest thing is to keep momentum in dry spots and don't start out going up hill.
Rwd usually has an advantage since the front tires help compress the sand into a more usable track for road tires too.

>the biggest thing is to keep momentum in dry spots

But that means in a group of cars, everyone has to abandon the person who gets stuck. Otherwise, if the group stops their cars to get out and push the stuck car out of the sand trap, now everyone's cars has zero momentum.