Exploring the Backcountry in Washington State 

That’s central Washington there!! Not “eastern” til you hit the Columbia and stop seeing trees 😂

I love it when you hop in with your friends along the drive and asking them some questions. Even just hanging out and seeing you guys enjoy your time together is a great addition to the videos!

I live about 25 minutes from that area. Those are my hunting grounds for big mule bucks in the fall. Lots of great trails. I follow you guys and watch all your videos and I’m happy to see that you guys are out in eastern Washington.

What a great time my friend! 🙌

I am continually impressed by the effort put into the camera work and editing of all of these TrailRecon episodes. 'Very nice!

Incredibly fun to watch and live vicariously through you guys. The east coast has its uniqueness but BDR, not so much. Brad, you are quite the gentleman to ensure your wife is safe and enjoying the adventure as well. She is a lovely person.

Can't wait to start my Adventures & Build

I've completed 5 BDR's in the last 12 months. Fantastic routes. Highly recommended.

Retirement is a blast! I have been at it for 11 years now and since I get to do what I want to do with my time now every day is an adventure. I hope you enjoy your retirement for many years to come especially when your wife gets to as well. Thanks for all the great content and sharing your adventures.

You group of guys are exactly the type of guys i like to hang out with. I think you and your wife are amazing and work good together. So glad to see you 2 get away out in the mountains and enjoy each others company. What a great series of vids. Keep up the great work bro.

What a great trip. I liked your chat with Regina. Especially saying spending time with you was the best part.

As a Jeep Liberty owner, it does my heart good to see the red KJ hanging with the Power Wagon, Tacoma, and Gladiator! It’s a capable little rig.

Really appreciate the camera work on these videos Brad. Thanks for keeping the bar set very high!

I have been following you since you were small and when you just started posting videos tell you this is one of the best videos I seen or importantly I like the part that you had your wife in there speaking about her feelings and how she needed to relax more and appreciate that and I think that’s the goal that you’re trying to achieve with everyone to get out get on these trails get yourself a nice rig and really enjoy this country and enjoy the outside. What you are demonstrating so this country is such a beautiful country and if we take some advice from your wife that we should just relax leave our 9-to-5 back at home and enjoy it and I tell you this video brings out all of that keep it up you’re doing a great job

“Rivers, mountains and trees” I’m with you lady.

Love the adventures and encouragement to overland!

Very impressed with your channel. My fiancé and I enjoy watching and learning from you. It is my hope to travel all over the States and live this life daily. Please please start posting your camping recipes. The food each of you cook looks amazing, especially your wife's cilantro, tequila chicken tacos. Please post her recipe. She needs to have a TrailRecon food channel on RU-vid. Seriously.

Thank you Brad and Regina for sharing your adventure with us all. My wife and I are exploring the UP of Michigan and doing it together is so much more fun. Regina joining the adventure and videos has really added a lot to your already excellent channel. Cheers!

Glad to see WA trails being highlighted on your channel! Thanks for showing your viewers what we have to offer here. Glad to see you had a great time!

Nate looked kinda sad you guys were done, like almost chokin em back a little. You gotta love that guy! Amazing trip, Washington looks so nice, gonna have to get up there and explore one of these days!

Lived near here for 12 years. Loved it.

One Of My Favorite Adventures! I love my 2020 Ram 2500 though it is not a Powerwagon it is still fairly capable. Seeing Family and Friends come together of a common interest is awesome. I am glad Regina was able to enjoy herself and want to do it more in the future. If you are even in Northern New England I'd love to tag along and maybe learn a thing or two!

Pleasure getting to meet your wife. My wife and I agree with her love of trees/mountains/rivers/lakes. Glad the Powerwagon camper setup is perfect for enjoying adventures together. Thanks for bringing us along.

Those bed campers are the best possible choice for overlanding in my opinion. There is nothing worse than having to tote behind a trailer when trying to enjoy the sights and sounds of traveling. Now if only I could afford one.

You guys are my favorite collaborators. Awesome views and awesome positivity. Thank you!

Would absolutely love to see you both doing some harder wheeling together with the JK and TJ. Awesome video as always 👍👍

You make camping look so amazing. I have a 2014 2door Jeep Rubi that has some nice work done to it when I bought it from Jeep. I beg my wife to let us buy a little tear drop trailer and go camping like you guys do it but she simply does not like to “rough it”. So for now, I live my camping life vicariously through you. Thank you for all the beautiful scenery

When you’re towing a trailer (or not) and you’re going over mountain passes, put your Tacoma into ECT Mode and “manually” shift your automatic transmission. That’s what the ECT Mode is for. It the “power” mode for your Tacoma. Whenever we go to Seattle and go over Blewitt Pass (hywy 97) and over Snowqualmie Pass (I-90), I put my Tacoma TRD Off Road into ECT Mode every time.

Enjoying you new video with my morning cuppa tea 🍵 here in *Victoria Australia, stay awesome*

Oh man, thank you for doing that! This is something accessible for me and many more local enthusiasts. Great motivation. More of us need to get and explore our own backcountry, so we understand how important it is to protect our public lands!

@trailrecon, i think she likes you, and not shy about it. So cool. It is always nice to see a couple who like each other.

What a great adventure, made even better with Miss Regina coming along.

I Love Camping.

Glad that Regina has some insightful comments about pros/cons of the trip. I always take too much food. I like the idea of stopping in small towns to re-stock as needed.

what an amazing trip. Thank you for exploring our extended backyard. Nate and Matt sure did an amazing job!

I love to see Mrs. TrailRecon with you. I know my overland adventures wouldn't be the same without the intrepid Mrs. Pithler.

Love these adventure overland videos from you, man! They always inspire us to get back out there ourselves!

Passed your group on the Bethel Ridge route, good to see you, wished we would have realized it was you in the moment! Glad you enjoyed your time in the PNW!

Brad, your videos are awesome and I thoroughly enjoy your travel logs. Your trip to the Washington coast was really scenic and it looks like you and your wife had a lot of fun there. My wife and I will be going there next month. We also look forward to exploring some of the places you have visited over the years. I am always looking at maps for great trails to explore. There is a trail called the Magruder Corridor road, which is a 123 mile dirt road between Elk City, Idaho, and Darby, Montana (Forest Road 468). It winds through some very scenic wilderness, and there are some offshoot trails and USFS camp sites along the way. It looks like it would be perfect route for your Powerwagon camper. There are a lot of U-Tube videos that people have filmed while traveling this route. It looks like it would be a really neat adventure and it is definitely on my bucket list to explore. Keep on wheelin’ and happy trails! Regards, Mark (US Navy Retired).

These videos are just awesome

such a beautiful area! great to see your campsites🌲🌲🌲

I moved away from home(Eastern Washington) a little over a year ago, and I do not miss the wind. West side gets rain and the East gets lots of wind.

The fire that took that bridge out almost took my parents home. I travel that area regularly. Its basically my back yard!

Nice to see you and your wife enjoyed some well deserved time together exploring and wheeling. I guess diesel is here to stay at last. Three different diesel rigs and only one gas powered truck (mostly diesel overseas). Nice!

Pretty landscapes with green grass and forests are not the only thing with overlanding. Being remote is such a great feeling, in fact it's the best feeling in my opinion. Although you have a lot of people travelling with you, maybe not as good for the remote feel of peace and serenity.

Amazing scenery - good stuff as always. That little Jeep Liberty is pretty sweet too.

nice to Regina so happy. Great video

Nice trip,wonderful couple,everything was awesome,thank you for the video

Those Liberty diesels are great,and they have plenty of aftermarket support in the way of better radiators and lower temp thermostats

We live 5 miles SW of Cashmere, WA up in the mountains. Wenatchee is a short 1/2 drive to the east and Leavenworth is 20 minutes to the west. This summer a few friends and us will be going from Malaga to Ellensburg on the back roads. Some of us guys have some weekend camping / fishing trips up the Chumstick and Blewitt Pass area. We all have late model Tacoma’s with the TRD Off Road and Double Cabs. Our wives idea of “roughing it” is in a Holiday Inn, whereas us guys will be sleeping in the beds of our trucks. Yep, it’s a guy thing.

Great off road adventure I did the drive with friends 5 yrs ago

My husband got me into watching your videos and I love them! I get such wanderlust whenever I see where you go, so beautiful. I'd love to know your music playlist for your videos, it is amazing!

Love the Bob Seger on the radio! Keep up the adventures!

This video was awesome. I'd just like to of seen more of the inside the campers. Thanks for sharing 👍

That was a great video. Well done. Enjoyable to listen to this.

Reminds me of when I was a young man traveling with my buds in a Jeep camping all over the west coast.Thanks for taking me along on your epic adventure. Peace!

My very first night in my FWC, which was at Trona Pinnacles, the wind was 40 with gusts to 50. I used the furnace to keep the temps over 50, but it was dang loud! Now that I'm retired, I plan to do all the BDR's and the CDT. I've spent over 50 nights in my FWC since I got it in Feb of this year, and I STILL over pack!

I'm glad someone like this filmed at Washington state

My family is just getting into overlanding. We live in the PNW close to the cascades and we plan on doing at least some parts of the backcountry discovery route, as much as our vehicle can handle. Love this video, thanks for sharing!

That is a yes. when I grew up in Montana we went antelope hunts in the East. we can a camper. slept great. but we didn’t have electric water pump. it was a hand pump in kitchen. still had a blast. :-)

Love this . My husband and are planning an overland trip . We recently did a trip to Newfoundland with out truck and roof top tent . Loved it but I think we might like a slide in truck camper !!

Kinda cool seeing my stomping grounds in a video. Nice film work.

For that Jeep Liberty, it sounds like a heater core issue. My '99 Grand Cherokee doesn't have an engine fan, just electric, and I haven't had issues. I've driven it on the Naches Trail twice, along with other adventures.

Looks like an amazing trip guys. Loved every moment of it

Thanks for taking us along. Beautiful views.

Did the same route the opposite direction of travel, and the bridge was "still there" a couple of years back beautiful scenery!!

that's awesome to see family doing thing like that

Good old ellensburg wind!

Totally off topic, but I love the music in your videos…..So relaxing and smooth!

Looks like you made it to Bethel Ridge and overlooked Rimrock…there is some excellent technical wheeling around Rimrock!

Fantastic vid, great trip, love to see you and your wife out and about together.

This is one of my favorite areas, I'm glad you had the chance to visit it!

as always my favorite channel with the best footage. Wife is loving the fact that you have your wife on here too.

Great music Brad! and... bringing your wife along increased the greatness of your videos 4 fold :).... isn't it amazing how video just never captures the grade of terrain.

When you promise her ''One day, I gonna put the world at your feet'' and FINALLY YOU DELIVER! 9:52 EDIT:RESPECT for mr. Brad!!! 👊🏼

A block heater in the jeep will help in the winter a better option for winter

Hi. Eastern Wa resident here. I think it's really cute that you think that was "super windy." LOL

That Liberty is awesome..never knew those could look so cool when outfitted with overlanding gear

Thank you for making such positive videos @trailrecon !

Absolutely love the WABDR! I've done those sections twice and it so beautiful as you guys have said. i'll give you a tip with those pancakes. Mix them in a ziploc bag and cut the corner off. Then you can squeeze it out almost like frosting. Super easy!

Amazing trip great video

I love Washington … especially the views from the Seattle Great Wheel 😍

Great series! glad you guys had a good time up here, i love this state.

Everyone loves and misses Marco. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Another great one Master Chief, just caught it today. My home town is actually just off of the BDR on the Canadian border! Little did I know my teenage running around in the mountains was to become part of the WABDR! Thank you for the video and sights of my home land.

Driving that route is the first time I have ever encountered gates that you are allowed to go through. The first one I pulled up to I was disappointed that it was closed up, until I saw the sign asking me to close the gate behind me.

Hey man, this video is very well shot and your commentary is super calming. Keep up the good work!

You have an awesome channel. It reminds me of Fred Trost and Michigan out of doors or Wilderness Journel. It has that same vibe. Thanks for taking us along on your adventure.

We just call that Wenas Road when we're taking it between Yakima and Ellensburg.

YES!!!! Learn to relax👍🏼 it's awesome😬 great, great videos. Thank you

What a trip! Thanks for sharing with us!!

Amazing trip. Thanks for letting us tag along.

Nice video! Smart idea to move off the ridge when the wind picked up. My wife and I spent a sleepless night at the very top of the ridge due to the wind. The only saving grace was the cell tower 1/4 mile away. We watched Netflix on the tablet for hours that night. :)

you are the Rick Steves of overlanding! awesome.

Wind near Ellensburg? Welcome to Ellensburg. It’s always windy.

I can't believe people dislikes this kind of videos , for me this channel is amazing. keep up the good CAMP !!

i would love to see more of Marco in your trips

@dirt lifestyle Nate!!! I’m sorry my friend I let you, Brad, Regina and Josh down on this trip I promise to make it up to you soon!!! I’m with you! Josh is a great cook and Regina! Come on! The cooking in that group is top notch!!!

Yakima valley Washington ❤️🇲🇽🇺🇸 home sweet home

What a great video and narration 👍👍👍