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out boating again on a glass lake. turns out this was our last peaceful day
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like i said, had some weird things happen. while i was off dicking around on my quad, my wife had a visitor at our campsite. a floatplane came down and landed right in front of her and my son. she could'nt take any pictures, cause i had the camera, but she did have her old sony handycam and made a vid of him taking off and leaving. as her sony is at least 7 yrs old (vids on there i had never seen, from 7 yrs ago...lol) we have to figure out how to get it on the computer first, then i can show it
why did he land? was going around the backcountry warning everyone to clear out because of a forest fire. with only one way in and one way out, we took his advice and headed out. started getting smoky, puts a little fire (bad pun...) in your rear when you start smelling it too clearing outta there Attachment 1675251Attachment 1675252Attachment 1675253Attachment 1675254Attachment 1675255 |
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and one last weird thing...
just out of Hope BC we were tooling down the old no. 1 highway, (50 mph) when we were startled by a train horn. the world famous Rocky Mountaineer train pulled right up beside us and started tooting his horn and waving at us (usually it's the other way around...lol) i slowed down a little bit so the kid could get us some pics, did ok on the engines, but that was it, none of the coach pics turned out good. as we were working our way up and down the train, prob 300 people were gawking at us and taking pictures... Attachment 1675256Attachment 1675257Attachment 1675258 |
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Great pics as always DD. Finally got my set out this weekend. Pic is at about 1:30 AM.
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hey...nice pair MTCK!
is that a toyhauler beside the camper? c'mon now, don't be a bogart, share some of that beautiful AlaSka countryside with us...:lol: this was our t. trailer at Boya lake (couple miles from the yukon border) on july 1 at 11:30-ish at nite.... Attachment 1675901 only being up there for a couple weeks, it was a hard (and weird!) thing to try adjust too... |
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'bout a 250 mile trip there and back https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Joh...4d-121.8502387 nobody in the canyon this morning Attachment 1682910 in fact, not hardly anyone out this morn.... Attachment 1682911Attachment 1682912 this road again... Attachment 1682913Attachment 1682914 |
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some sights on the powerline road again
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some more powerline pics
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off the powerline rd and heading up Kwoiek valley
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quad time....Kwoiek lake
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even if i could get the truck past the logs and removed bridge, dont think the truck would get down whats left of the road...
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yeah, dont think the truck would fit down here
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a little spur road, goes down to this bridge (why'd they leave this one??...), goes nowhere, bridge crosses Kwoiek creek and thats it- just ends right there....
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getting harder to find the trail. also cant seem to find the trail to Kokwaskey Falls, where the river leaves Kokwaskey lake. doesnt look like too many people make it up this way anymore...everything is overgrown and reverting back to nature.
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not sure of this creek name that runs into Kwoiek
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yup, i think so...
Attachment 1682985 time to hike, and i mean hike, really had to bushwack to get to John George lake, this is what i'm going thru... Attachment 1682988 been not drinking much lately cause i'm on the quit smoking bandwagon, and nothing goes better with a brew than a smoke....but my buddy gave me a couple Russian beer (?!?) and i brought them with me. figure i'm safe drinking them here when the nearest store is a couple hrs away...:lol: have to say they taste like s**t (mostly) i'll stick to my bud thanks... all the way from St Petersburg to way out in the middle of nowhere bc...lol Attachment 1682990Attachment 1682991 they were my little celebration for getting to John George finally. been over 30 yrs since i was here Attachment 1682992 |
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the mountains around John George
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with the bridge gone, it will be a real bushwack to get to Stukolait lake, or Kha and Klept. maybe one day load up the 303 and hike the rest of the way in, will not be easy...
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Awesome as usual Dawg! I would love to join you on a trek one day. Get the old 1 tons and campers rolling! This was the rig we took on the off grid fishing trip in northern Sask. No clue why it posted sideways.
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couple more leaving Kwoiek. kinda disappointed all the roads and trails are gone. it's a long valley with big mountains that requires more than a day on foot. prob wont be back this way for a bit, it's not like how i remembered it....
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no sag with the trailer either...nice! you would like cruising around the back 40 out here Bilfman, hardly ever run into anyone, good fishing, still got some wildlife kicking around. fuel costs in the 'ol 1 ton would be brutal to get here.....but ya only live once! |
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Great pics guys! You're right Dawg that's a buddy's toy hauler. Good luck kicking the smokes.
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going on 6 mos MTCK!
quit mar 18, tough, but i'm done wasting 20 bucks a day on them.... i also learned a couple things today. one, i'm old. not the go-anywhere young buck anymore, just a 50 yr old roofer...hiked close to 30 miles today, with almost 4 of them strait up and down, and man oh man, i'm really feeling it right now. also learned a bear banger can work pretty good too... our province has been burning big time this yr. the smoke from wildfires has blanketed the valley again, can barely see the mountains around my place Attachment 1685474 so i decided to get out of the smoke today, and headed up the Coquihalla. seems to be some smoke at the bottom of the Coke too.. Attachment 1685475 you never know what you'll run into on the Coke, like this truck-less load of 2x4's going up in flames Attachment 1685476 lots of construction going on the Coke right now. fixing the bridge at Dry Gulch Attachment 1685477Attachment 1685478 |
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headed up to Vicuna/Guanaco Peaks
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road is starting to tighten up, left some more paint out there...
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