The LVH Fishing Club had another great road trip today, February 26th. We left the Clubhouse about 8:00 a.m. and took a leisurely drive up Hwy 101 to Tillamook. From downtown Tillamook we turned east for about 20 miles to the Tillamook Forest Center. There was just enough snow around to make it beautiful but the road was clear so the drive was great. This was a perfect time to go because there were no crowds and we had the place practically to ourselves. We were all pleasantly surprised at how much information and how well the museum was arranged. We watched a 15 minute movie on the Tillamook Burn and were even able to smell the smoke! Besides beautiful scenery the museum is well worth the drive and I know any of us would recommend it. From there we all drove (there were 14 of us in in 6 vehicles) to the Tillamook Cheese Factory for lunch. Liz Hill made two new friends - check out the cows watching her walk by . . . From there some went on the tour of the Cheese Factory, some headed home and some went to the Tillamook Sporting Goods store. A few also talked about visiting the Tillamook Air Museum. The trip was approximately 180 miles so it definitely qualifies as a road trip and I think I can speak for us all when I say it was a success and we can't wait for the next trip!

These comments in from Brian Hudson:
Wayde/Barb: great road trip today, Forest Center was better than expected and completed one those little circles in your life - in this case vivid memories of school bus rides to the Burn and following the string lines layed out by the foresters up the mountain sides as we planted, eating sack lunches with great views when got to the top. Drug Frank around the Three Capes Senic Route going back (new to him), great views of the Bay, saw elk feeding at the edge of the road, and stopped by the Whiskey Creek Hatchery - 100K Chinook smolts/year and we fed the BIG Rainbows (all 4-5 lb) in the visitor pond - looked like JAWS feeding time - a neat place to visit. They do handicap kids fishing in their rearing ponds (for the big rainbows) in Sept. Its all run by the Tillamook Bay Sports Fisherman Club. Another road trip sometime in the future??