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Dawg in the Takakkaw river
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lousy smoke is making an appearance again....
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Lake Louise in Banff park
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they have enclosed gondola's and open chairs. son and me managed to talk wife into an open chair, which surprised me and which she regretted right away. she got a little panicky a few times, had to keep mellowing her out, but she stuck it out, even with a death grip on the bar...and this is only about 20-30 feet off the ground
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bah! smoke is coming back. can barely see Lake Louise
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we left Lake Louise, figured we'd stop by on the way back, and headed up Jasper park to the Columbia Icefield, largest non-polar concentration of glaciers.
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sure would have been nice to see some blue sky...
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there is mountain ranges all around us, but we can barely see just the foreground ones....
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ya, this blows. taste it just breathing-yucky...
Attachment 1811867Attachment 1811868Attachment 1811869 after a couple hrs of driving in this soup, we came to the Icefield, just as smoky here too Attachment 1811870 the icefield is a whole bunch of glaciers, we're going up on the Athabaskan glacier. lots of scouring everywhere from the retreating glaciers... Attachment 1811871 |
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the Athabaskan glacier has gotten smaller than the last time we were here. it has been receeding at 15 feet per yr, that's 256 feet it has shrunk since wife and me saw it in 2002, almost a mile in the last century. the glacier is 300-900 feet thick, and the whole icefield is approx up to 3000 feet thick. it's not white or "snowy", but full of dirt and rocks, is quite brown in appearance, and you get excellent traction on it. it also tastes fantastic, thousands of yr old pure water...and no, that is not cloud, ya, it's wildfire smoke
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they have terra-bus tours out onto the glaciers.
remember that expensive thing i mentioned earlier?.... it's $99 bucks each for wife and me and 50 clams for the kid, no way in hay i'm paying 250 bucks for a 15 minute ride onto the ice, we'll hike up thank-you....:lol: they do look cool cruising around, there is about 2 dozen terra buses and they leave every 15 minutes, and there always packed, can you say gold mine?...lol they have 66" terra tires and super low gearing, about 25 mph tops. there is a hill about 35 degrees or so they drive down to the glaciers, was cool watching them crawl up and down it with all the passengers hanging on the seatbelts Attachment 1811877Attachment 1811878Attachment 1811879 they recently built a Glacier Skywalk, very similar to the one at the Grand Canyon, a glass loop out over a 918 foot drop to the glaciers below. we wanted to go walk it, but that expense thing again. where the Skywalk is built used to be a vehicle pullout that anyone could look off of, now it's closed to the general public unless you pay a private company (think terra-bus company...) more big bucks for them to drive you to it and charge you to walk it...don't really have a problem with that, but it's just as expensive as the terra bus tour, and you have to buy the terra-bus tour as well, cause that's what they use to transport you to it... we were going to keep going to Jasper, we wanted to ride the Jasper tramway again, we did it in '02, it's about twice the size and twice the height of the Lake Louise gondola, you can also take your dog on it, but we had already spent a grand 3 days in out of 5, and could'nt really see nothing because of the smoke and wifey was having laboured breathing because of it, not to mention there was a fire in the park heading towards Jasper kinda a drag, gotten really expensive, and what's the use hanging around spending more money if you can't even see or appreciate the beauty-ness of the place....like our holidays last month, we again cut it short and headed home.... the smoke!...jeebus! Attachment 1811882 Attachment 1811883 |
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would you belive there is actually another 10 000 foot high mountain in this pic? it really is in there somewhere....
Attachment 1811886 world famous Bow lake.....bahhh! Attachment 1811887 again, here's what Bow looks like when you can actually see it... Attachment 1811888 the smoke was just a tad lighter going threw Kootenay park, spied a chopper trying to douse one of the hundreds of fires burning right now... Attachment 1811889Attachment 1811890 |
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this white truck i expected to see hit the ditch. dont know if it was a new driver or a driver that just did'nt care. he never went wide on any corners. a couple times his trailer outside duals were riding in the ditch or suspended in mid air....
caught up to him where there is some heavy netting to keep rocks off the road Attachment 1811891 check it out, his trailer is riding the ditch Attachment 1811892 you can clearly see how he was not allowing for length on the corners, again the trailer is tracking towards the ditch... Attachment 1811893 spied this HEMTT M977 for sale. i think the sign said it could be yours for 40 g's, or maybe it was 140 g's...lol. there was 2 of them 4 sale Attachment 1811894 this smoke just is'nt quitting, after another 600 miles to home, we're still blanketed by heavy smoke.... Attachment 1811896 |
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so said the heck with va-cays, going to spend the rest of it just riding my quad around...i did go buy some new tires for the quad trailer yesterday, bigger and better, hope this wards off any more problems for awhile...need a vacation from all the problems been having lately....
woo-hoo! four hundred bucks of bigger and better. went wider than the stockers, also went to a D load, weight capacity just went up 1600 lbs. i also like how there radials and are taller than the old bias that was on there. i can now switch to a 6" drop hitch in stead of a 8" drop. going to get the trailer shop to make some custom springs about 2-3 inches taller. should be able to go to a 2" drop hitch or so, make for waaaay easier and smoother towing, especially since the kid's new quad weighs 500 lbs more than his old one... big'un tires Attachment 1811900 trailer sits a little over 2" taller now Attachment 1811901 and they fill up the wheelwells much better than the puny stockers... Attachment 1811902 |
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Looked like an adventure for sure. Bummer on the smoke though. We are getting haze/smoke from California here in Colorado too. Thankfully we got a lot of needed moisture and most of our fires are out now.
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thanks Zoomad!
ya, our air advisory index is pretty much off the charts lately, and is supposed to get worse next week with some outflow winds....and no rain for at least another 2-3 weeks hit the Thurston Loop again today wit the quads, not much chance of running into snow now.. we left the truck (and dawg) at Chipmunk Creek once more. here's Chipmunk last June when we were up there......and a couple months later at the exact same spot Attachment 1812715Attachment 1812714 and dawg in Chipmunk cooling off.. Attachment 1812716Attachment 1812717 |
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seeing how we went at it from the north the last time, we started at the south end of the loop today instead. had a small breeze blow thru and cleared out the heavy smoke, still a little hazy, but i'll take it..
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you can see how the smoke is just hanging in the valleys...
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Hey Diesel,
Great pic's as usual. That's ALOT of fires you got going on over there! Almost unimaginable, sittin' down here. I was just reading Kimberly is on Evacuation Alert, 4500 people. Telegraph Creek having a tough run too. Stay safe! |
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of course we had to stop and play in this for 20 mins...
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valley side of the mountain. quite a difference from last june...can't see much...
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lesser amount of fires last yr, but almost 3 million acres went up, almost twice as many fires this yr, but only around a million acres burnt so far smoke has been the biggie this year, just blanketing everything...air quality index goes from 1-10, ten being bad...it's at anywhere from 20-40 depending on where you are....:waah: http://google.org/crisismap/google.c...mbia-wildfires but it's not just here only...i think people need to realize global warming is'nt fiction. we never had this many fires ever when we were growing up. we used to get maybe 6-10 days of mid 80's weather in the summer (30C) now we are getting around 30 plus days of mid 80's weather, which is drying things out much more and making the forests ticking time bombs.... Calf, Wash, Ore, Greece, Siberia, Europe, BC, all on fire, our planet seems to be getting hotter, which sucks, cause there is no planet "B" if we cook this one...;) |
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Larry, Ian, my son and I with our friends Pam and John went into the mountains this last weekend and did some wheeling. Hit the Wheeler Lake trail and Mosquito Pass.
Wheeler lake is listed locally as a difficult trail, but we went for it anyway. Airing down for the ride.. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1860/...578df46d_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr This trail is in a historical mining area. The beginning passes under the building for the Magnolia mill. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1849/...726b422e_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Larry running up the first hard spot at the "flopper" We all hugged that wall on the driver side. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1868/...3b49b21c_b.jpgIMGP0009 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr John getting close too. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1886/...2a15e45f_b.jpgIMGP0012 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Me attempting the middle line at the "v-notch" obstacle. It's steeper than it looks! https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1886/...2a15e45f_b.jpgIMGP0012 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr I ended up on the end of my winch cable as I just didn't have the right line and we didn't want me to snap another front shaft early into our weekend. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1899/...27a60e83_b.jpgIMGP0021 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Larry taking the far left line on the same section. He ended up on the end of the cable too as his unlocked 60 wouldn't pull him over the top. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1858/...25cc8958_b.jpgIMGP0028 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr John walked over it. He took the middle section but went more to the right and caught it diagonally. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1845/...78c7d986_b.jpgIMGP0029 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Can't beat the scenery in the Colorado mountains when the leaves start to turn. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1866/...cfded52a_b.jpgIMGP0033 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr The main carnage of the trip. Larry tagged his tie rod and steering stabilizer. Ian at work to pull the damaged stabilizer. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1863/...7882016d_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Coming up the last section of what they call "Bowling Ball Hill". Nothing but large loose rock to crawl over as it moves under your tires. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1851/...81f3cc92_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Camp setup. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1856/...b1bce6c9_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Relaxing. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1860/...e0f1b099_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Cool waterfall behind camp lit by the morning sun. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1865/...3a132ecf_b.jpgIMGP0002 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr We fixed Larry's stabilizer in Fairplay CO at a Napa and hit back up to the Mosquito pass trail. The Aspens were changing when we came though. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1858/...f0cff065_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr More old mine relics. This is the mill for the London mine that is located above on the mountian side. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1897/...ca442fc3_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Aerial tram building. This connected the mine to the mill below. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1885/...e0de76b1_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1877/...f04685cd_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr At the top, 13,185 feet above sea level. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1889/...b172b09c_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Coming down the pass. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1874/...137f30f3_b.jpgWheeler lake and Mosquito pass trail run 2018 by Rob Zulian, on Flickr It was a successful trip since I'm the one that would bust something and didn't. |
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Beautiful pics Zoomad! Thanks for sharing.
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Winter is coming....so here you pics from the last real hot camping trip.
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Excellent DSuper5! We camped right at the base of that rock formation in your first pic on our way home from our desert trip this last June. Then we drove right through Page to get home. Love the area for sure. Oh and I'd kill for a Burb like yours too.
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great pics Rob and 3757chevy!
son and me took our quads to mt mercer, was going to sleep in the back of the truck, but a clear cold moved in, nite time temps down to the 30's...brrr, forget that... kids got new graphics on his quad, and he just has to try them out...(they make it faster of course...) Attachment 1827570Attachment 1827571 is a beautiful morning... Attachment 1827572 stopped at the beaver dams for dawg. there is a row of about 8 or 9 dams. dawg loves going there and harassing the beavers.. Attachment 1827573Attachment 1827574 |
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hello mr. beaver, anyone home?
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at our turn-off. really liking how the crew handles with the new longer fr springs and cross-over steering...
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jeez...can't keep an old dawg down...any little noise and he's on it....he actually heard some salmon in the creek....coho's should be in the river in full force in a week or so....yee-haw, dawg's goin' fishin' in a week or so...
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cruisin' threw the bushes...
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heading up mt mercer...
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about 2/3rds of the way up mercer
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...but the hike was worth it...
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I went up with friends a couple of weekends back for an overnighter to Pomeroy lake and Hancock pass again. Colors were in full swing. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1958/...0eb4fc85_b.jpgPomeroy lake trail and Hancock pass by Rob Zulian, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1926/...11d4974c_b.jpgPomeroy lake trail and Hancock pass by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Caught a Squarebody still working for a local mine. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1961/...66cfe946_b.jpgPomeroy lake trail and Hancock pass by Rob Zulian, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1928/...6e9e5b5a_b.jpgPomeroy lake trail and Hancock pass by Rob Zulian, on Flickr My dog likes riding along too. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1969/...41f75a7b_b.jpgPomeroy lake trail and Hancock pass by Rob Zulian, on Flickr Back on top of Hancock pass https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1951/...15c8d343_b.jpgPomeroy lake trail and Hancock pass by Rob Zulian, on Flickr |
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ugh, all these tease shots!
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