Thinking like this is why we can’t get along as a whole. Good intentions aren’t always good ideas. Putting the cart before the horse is just stupid.

Yes, for sure confused me at first.

Nice.

Omg stop. We can’t just fuck off so hard in left field like that and not appear pretentious as hell.

I'm with you. Those guys are a-holes. Like Denali and Tahoma, these things were named something else for a long long time.

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As a side note, there's some r/confusing_perspective going on here... I swear this is a single image lol

You don't recognize the Salish Sea?

Yes. I’ve had a staked tent roll away with the people in it! We woke up sleeping on the opening, whole tent a couple camp sites away. I can’t imagine what that looked like in stop action mode.

So, yeah, buckets of sand to hold tent in place windy.

So if anything the Strait, not the Sound.

Take down the canopies before bed. They will be gone in the morning.

Sometimes it’s not windy at all. Other times I’ve seen canopies fly hundreds of feet in the air and land on cars. When it’s that windy, stakes don’t do anything. My friends tent had a couple gallon jugs of water in it and the wind took it. Tents usually do okay but canopies are like parachutes. What I have found to work is to take the corners off of the canopy and if you want extra security, loser the canopy when leaving the site. You could probably look up predicted weather beforehand but most people camp with normal tents and canopies

Food scene is great in seattle, in my opinion. Tacoma is good too. I live in Bremerton and options are limited but there’s still plenty of good choices within a 20-30 min drive. I’m originally from Philly and there’s definitely things that just don’t compare (hoagies, cheesesteaks, pizza, bagels/breakfast sandwiches) but oh well, just more to look forward to when you get back for a visit!

Wow, Larsen! Around the time you were born there, my grandpa worked there for AT&T, and my grandma for IBM supporting the SAGE facility.

Ended up with my tent wrapped around a tree the first time I tried to camp in Vantage. Seemed still during the day, and when I got back from a concert at the gorge my tent went flying. Heavy, sturdy, all of our stuff in it.

I’d suggest Gig Harbor if you can afford it.

See what ya did there

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Wasington and Oregon are the best states!

As long as I can still measure the trunk space of a car by how many bodies I think would fit into it then we're good.

Marine Area 6

If possible, sleep in a car/camper. We slept in a tent and kept our cooler and bags in it so the tent was fine but the wind was super loud. In my experience, it wasn’t constant wind but it came in random gusts. Sand bags are the best for holding things down! Bring a hoodie and a beanie

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Whatever you think is staked down enough, double it. And take canopies down if you’re not using them. My last time at gorge was a couple years ago but I had JUST gotten a new car the day before and drove it to the gorge. A wind gust came out of nowhere and picked up our canopy (that was staked down) and smashed it against the windshield of my car, shattering it.

This is from a drone :)

Not all of it