Re: post up your camping pics
 

that's Nahatlatch valley on the other side of the river
Attachment 1654113

and between those mountains is Hidden valley, pretty much only foot or bike/quad accessible. Hidden is squeezed in between Nahatlatch and Klowa mts. will be going there later this yr
Attachment 1654114Attachment 1654115

dawg pit stop- but he cant get to the water....not good, temps are climbing in the canyon today
Attachment 1654116Attachment 1654117

Re: post up your camping pics
 

one of the steeper hills in the canyon
so named for a mule that went over the side in the mule train days of travel thru the canyon...
Attachment 1654118

some nice views
Attachment 1654119Attachment 1654120Attachment 1654121Attachment 1654122

Re: post up your camping pics
 

that's Kwoiek valley over there, way to (still have'nt made it....) John George lake
Attachment 1654125

was real muggy traveling thru the lower canyon today
Attachment 1654126Attachment 1654127Attachment 1654128Attachment 1654129

Re: post up your camping pics
 

coming in to Lytton, gets extremely hot here, quite often it is BC's and Canada's hot spot of the day. thankfully with the hi thin cloud it was only around the upper 80's
Attachment 1654135
Attachment 1654136Attachment 1654137Attachment 1654138Attachment 1654139

Re: post up your camping pics
 

leaving Lytton we took hiway 12 thru the upper Fraser Canyon- which has the distinction of being the most expensive road to maintain in BC. it is extremely windey with high sharp drop-off's and is very narrow, luckily we turn off before we start hitting that carp...
Attachment 1654145

heading up our turn to Monkey Wrench. rough gravel road that climbs about 1000 ft in half a mile right at the start. was also VERY dusty, wife was "complaining" 'bout taking her truck up it....
Attachment 1654146Attachment 1654147Attachment 1654148Attachment 1654149

Re: post up your camping pics
 

some nice area's to ride, just cost me a fortune in fuel bringing the crew up here...:lol:
Attachment 1654152Attachment 1654151

talked the wife into "checking out" Stein on the way home. her RA was giving her some hake, so we just went to the entrance of the park.
two ways to get across the Fraser, the reaction ferry, which was lined up, or the CN train bridge
Attachment 1654154
Attachment 1654155Attachment 1654156

Re: post up your camping pics
 

the ferry crew has a schedule, but they pretty much set their own hrs.....can be hit and miss, so the local natives started using the CN train bridge to get across. they fixed it so no more accidents could happen, it hangs off the side of the train bridge...
Attachment 1654166Attachment 1654167Attachment 1654168Attachment 1654169Attachment 1654170

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Stein is a little over 400 sq miles of UN-TOUCHED land, prob the only un-screwed piece left in North America. there is no roads, no vehicles, no bikes, atv's- nothing. you go into Stein on foot only, nothing else. it is truly spectacular in there. when my son is a little older and bigger, i will take him in there.
Attachment 1654171
Attachment 1654172Attachment 1654173Attachment 1654174Attachment 1654175

Stein valley gallery
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/exp...in_val/photos/

Re: post up your camping pics
 

actually there is a third way to get across the Fraser up there.
this little known susp bridge. it's actually a water pipeline across the river a couple miles north of Lytton.
no way in haaaaay was the wife going out on it....:lol:
Attachment 1654178Attachment 1654179

the thin cloud made a rainbow around the sun
Attachment 1654176Attachment 1654177

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Great pics again ,thanks for the ride .

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Teaser shot. Desert trip 2017.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4259/3...18237353_k.jpg100_0926 by Bigassgas8.1L, on Flickr

Larry's rolling roadshow of trucks made another run to the desert last week. We've got a ton of photos and video to pour over but the trip report will be coming soon. I have to say this was probably the most fun I've had on 4 wheels for sure. Central/Southern Utah is an amazing place to see. It's even more fun to wheel. Day one off road had us on the wrong trail that we took anyway and it turned into the best off road trail I've done personally. Obstacle one after another. We made about 12 miles total off of I-70 and it took all day to do it. Stay tuned...

Re: post up your camping pics
 

That looks awesome, Rob. Looking forward to the trip report.

Re: post up your camping pics
 

cool trip Zoomad!
looks like the blazer did fine :metal:
where is this? be liking it...
Attachment 1666752

Re: post up your camping pics
 

went to Skuzzy mountain today...
named for the only vessel to ever make it threw Hell's Gate in the Fraser canyon.
the Skuzzy was built specially for the canyon with a multiple compartitioned hull, one of the strongest engines available, and a huge winch on the front. The Skuzzy made it on the 3rd attempt with the engine going full out, the winch pulling, and 150 chinese railroad workers pulling on ropes from the cliffs. Every time the Skuzzy went out into the Fraser, they had to do hull repairs from the rocks and the pounding she took. There is not many pics of the Skuzzy as it was only in service for 2 yrs 'till the railroad was threw the canyon, then it was dis-mantled. the hull sat at Kanaka bar for yrs moldering away...
Attachment 1666753Attachment 1666754Attachment 1666755

heading up-river for Hells Gate
Attachment 1666756

little safer by road now :lol:
Attachment 1666757

Re: post up your camping pics
 

the Coquihalla has really become the main way into the BC interior the last couple yrs, with a major increase in people, so been going up the canyon lately, not nearly as crowded...:lol:
pretty quiet on this stellar day...
Attachment 1666758Attachment 1666759

'till i hit this guy....and just because people can afford something, does'nt mean they know how to operate it...for half a hour this id**t in the coach could not seem to make it over 25 mph....grrr, where's the next passing lane...
Attachment 1666760

actually went by my turn off and went a few more miles up the canyon to the Cisco bridges at Siska. was hoping for a rare shot of 2 trains on the bridges at the same time, but as ya can see....
Attachment 1666761Attachment 1666763

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Scuzzy creek FSR
Attachment 1666764

wife does not like Scuzzy rd, carved into the side of the mountain with a drop from 1000-3000 ft down
Attachment 1666765Attachment 1666766Attachment 1666767

road is pretty decent to this tower
Attachment 1666768

Re: post up your camping pics
 

some shots from behind the tower....lucky there is barbed wire around it, love hi things and like climbing hi things...:lol:
Attachment 1666769 Attachment 1666770Attachment 1666771

getting up a little higher, prob a few thousand ft down to the Fraser river now...
Attachment 1666772Attachment 1666773

Re: post up your camping pics
 

coming down into Scuzzy creek, then start climbing again on the other side of the valley
Attachment 1666774Attachment 1666775

Scuzzy creek
Attachment 1666776
Attachment 1666777Attachment 1666778

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Scuzzy creek forest service camp ground. seven or eight free rustic campsites along the Scuzzy. no one is around right now though
Attachment 1666779

someone went thru a lot of work clearing this slide up...
Attachment 1666780Attachment 1666781

...yet a couple miles further in and it starts deteriorating again....big cross ditches...:lol: dragged my hitch threw here
Attachment 1666782Attachment 1666783

Re: post up your camping pics
 

road is pretty much done for vehicles
Attachment 1666784Attachment 1666788Attachment 1666787Attachment 1666786Attachment 1666785

Re: post up your camping pics
 

south side of Scuzzy
Attachment 1666793Attachment 1666810

Cam's peak
Attachment 1666801

looking back down the valley
Attachment 1666809

spied this blazer on the way home....not a fan of the rims and tires
Attachment 1666811

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Cool pics as always .

Re: post up your camping pics
 

That was actually on the back way we took from Montrose Colorado to Moab. It's called Old 90 and really is nothing but 40 miles of dirt to within a few miles of the border to Utah. That's looking south to peaks near Durango and Cortez. This was a really neat road with multiple changes in elevation and eco-systems. Only problem was the cloud of dust leading off of Larry's truck didn't lend to good shots in some areas so I didn't break out the camera or phone.

We had talked about taking a different route if we had more time as there is a new off road trail system linking the two towns that opened last year. The Rimrocker trail from all reports I read really needs 2 days due to the terrain. We didn't have the time to spend on it so we cannonballed it on a more tame but faster route as we had another member of our group to meet in Moab for dinner.

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Beautiful as always Dieseldawg. What's the elevation at the top of Scuzzy?

Re: post up your camping pics
 

First outing with our "new" cab over!

Re: post up your camping pics
 

That's gorgeous. Tell us about your truck and camper.

Re: post up your camping pics
 

thanks SNJ!
Scuzzy is around 7300 feet

Re: post up your camping pics
 

X2!
sweet ride!

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Thanks! It's nothing special. Just a 69' longhorn I picked up out of a scrapyard after it sat for 12 years. The camper is a Northwest coach, I'm guessing around 60-69? I just picked it up a few weeks ago. Going to use it and work on it as I go.

Re: post up your camping pics
 

i like it, very period correct looking unit
my boss used to have a longhorn as a sheet metal truck. was fun to drive, would hop off the line with the factory No Spin. the front end sheet metal now resides on his hot rod '69 c10 shortie...

last feb (pg 23) went up the east side of Harrison lake. was just waiting for the snow to lift, then was going to do the Shovel Creek rd, a very rough, remote back way into Nahatlatch valley.
i think i also mentioned how we get a lot of yahoo's from the big city out here acting like morons, well they were at it again. we had mapped out and planned our Shovel Creek run all week just to watch it go down the tubes....or....up in flames....literally, when the yahoo's lit up over 300 acres of the mountain. even more stupid, the firefighters had to stop on the way to the fire to put out 3 un-attended fires when other yahoo's were evacuated from the area....so of course fire officals have closed off the area
Attachment 1668656Attachment 1668657

the fire started around Bear creek and has spread towards Silver creek and up the mountain, these areas where i was last feb. wonder what it will look like when the fire is out...
Attachment 1668658Attachment 1668659Attachment 1668660

Re: post up your camping pics
 

so we decided to take the wifey's truck up the Coquihalla to Rickey lake, last time we were there was camping 3 yrs ago. we have been hit with a pretty intense heat wave last few days (for up here..) anywheres from the high 80's to right around 100, which has led to over 200 fires in the last week...and a campfire ban- bummer, holidays coming up in a couple weeks.
the Coke is ringed by some big fires right now, making it very smoky and smelly. we ran into a forest ranger and he said 125 fires started the day before, and be ready to leave the Rickey area just in case.
smokey.....and smelly
Attachment 1668665Attachment 1668666Attachment 1668667

stopped at this nice little spot- for about 36 seconds, then the skeeters latched on to us...even dawg was like lets get outta here
Attachment 1668668Attachment 1668669

Re: post up your camping pics
 

off the highway
Attachment 1668670Attachment 1668671Attachment 1668672Attachment 1668673Attachment 1668674

Re: post up your camping pics
 

i have been letting my son drive off and on for a few yrs now. he will be a teen in 4 more months. free's up dad's time...:lol::lol:
Attachment 1668675Attachment 1668676
Attachment 1668678Attachment 1668680

dont freak, the last 2 pics are just staged. that's my wife in the pass seat, and my beer is just an empty bottle i picked up out of the ditch....
he's actually quite a good driver, has been riding a quad since he was 4. had no problems with narrow bridge....
Attachment 1668681

Re: post up your camping pics
 

...so i decided to let him take it up the mountain to Rickey.
hmm, idiots way out here too....
Attachment 1668686
Attachment 1668687Attachment 1668689
Attachment 1668690Attachment 1668691

Re: post up your camping pics
 

a nice drive up the mountain
Attachment 1668692Attachment 1668693Attachment 1668694Attachment 1668695Attachment 1668696

Re: post up your camping pics
 

at the top, Rickey lake
Attachment 1668697Attachment 1668698Attachment 1668699Attachment 1668700Attachment 1668701

Re: post up your camping pics
 

my son and i went for a short hike around the lake.
heard a noise behind this tree...
Attachment 1668702

then this guy came lumbering out....
Attachment 1668703

he sat on this log for awhile...
Attachment 1668704Attachment 1668706

he has some pretty mean looking claws
Attachment 1668707

Re: post up your camping pics
 

tried to get a pic of the bear and my son, but could'nt get the cam to focus on 2 different distances
Attachment 1668708

at the head of Rickey lake
Attachment 1668709

wind came in on the way home and cleared out a lot of the smoke. downside is the wind aint helping the firefighters out...
Attachment 1668710Attachment 1668711

thought the washboard clouds looked neat
Attachment 1668712

Re: post up your camping pics
 

Great pics Dawg. Shame about the fire. That bear isn't too far away! Blackies have killed two folks up here this summer already. Very abnormal.

Re: post up your camping pics
 

thanks MTCK
guess it is true, a bear does sit in the woods....:lol:
Attachment 1668819