Welcome to the board bro! I also live in the Great Pacific NW.
Not trying to sound like an ass, but we've got a great search engine here with xcelent info presented in LOTS of previous articles that've been posted. You'll find answers to most of your questions this way
your from yhe pacific NW as well? thats cool. I havent got used to the board yet their are allotta things to remember.lol hopefully you guys dont get tosick of the questions.