>>>*Over in Eastern Oregon there are some ruts like that except they are dry. They were left over from the wagons that came through, part of the Oregon Trail.

Of course our government had to "preserve" them because they were "pristine" ruts. I listened to a politician actually say that.

*Since we live closer to the coast it's kinda..damp?

I remember pulling down a trail by Scappose Creek, I saw some ruts with water standing in them. Bunch of guys standing around, I didn't want to go out around so I wound up the old 390 horse Chevy and hit her wide open.

*PLOOOOP! Made it maybe 6 feet.

Mud running across my floorboards, they were all laughing at me. I got out and sank to my white cottons. Then I was pulled out by some guy with tires big enough for a road grader.

The troops go up there all the time, call it the "Yippee" hole. Neat run, but if I was to go up there now I would park up top and sit on the bank to watch....*LOL**.. Some of those rigs go right across the top of it, but then I think if they kept the revs up they could cross the Columbia....*EB