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Roxie helping collect some firewood. took awhile to get it goin', had no paper, just some wood and a bic lighter...
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dawgs playing in some ice we drove thru
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went on a 400 mile trip to my departed dad's place to finish up settling his estate.
took a few pics heading up there and back. left at 5 in the morn, got back around 2-ish. going over the Coquihalla hiway, still snow up at the top Attachment 2090336Attachment 2090337Attachment 2090338Attachment 2090339 and practically nothing after coming down the other side Attachment 2090340 |
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passing thru the foothills
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stopped for a "caddy burger" at a little joint a few miles from the old man's place, Westwold, pop. 369, but they make a hella burger...and got some neat scenery
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detoured a little bit on the way home
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an interesting looking road, haft to file this one in the brainpan for later this year
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took the hounds up Church mt
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some sights up on Church
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hounds at the Fraser river
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a pair of nesting eagles at the river
Attachment 2090374 came across this sweet '80 Elco for sale on the way home. my son got his license last jan, been looking for a short square 4by...or an El camino. too bad no one was around to see it or get some info on it...he really needs a 4x4 anyways...:metal: Attachment 2090375Attachment 2090376Attachment 2090377 Roxie really enjoys truck riding Attachment 2090378 |
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took the hounds up Mt McFarlane...not much of a road....removed some more paint...
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once i got up a couple thousand feet, the road was not so overgrown
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snagged this tree on the way down...completely ripped the whole antenna right out of the fender...oh well, i usually listen to cd's anyways
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tooling around an un-named mountain in my back yard wit the dawgs today
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i swear, Rumbledawg is sooo like Diesel.
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was a little nippy up at elevation...time for a fire
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while warming up around the fire, we heard a monstrous crash in the bush about a hundred feet from us. so we headed up the hill and found this tree over. 'bout 5 ft in diameter and around 70-80 feet long.
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Wow, dieseldawg142!. That looks like a fantastic time and gorgeous place to get away from it all. I'm envious! Makes me wonder why a person would go home. Out there it looks like all your needs are met.
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I always enjoy dieseldawg's pictures! :)
Amazing how some of that inland country is so much drier than the the coast. That part looks a lot like Montana. |
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The first engine I ever rebuilt (1996) is still in that car and still runs, My uncle owns the car now. I like 1980 El Camino's :c2: |
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Nice pictures!
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No shortage of firewood and no double masks but it’s sad they leave the shells there ,hope you had a 6 pack with you
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dicked around wit my busted antenna today...was hoping the stud got broke and maybe left a few threads to re-attach...nope, broke the stud off the actual mount
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Coming back I picked up a couple backpacking/hitch hiking at Kitwanga and they were headed down to Vancouver for a Folk Music festival. I just almost drove them all the way down there but I left them at PG and continued down to Jasper and Kootenay NP where I did some backpacking and met some folks that I still correspond with today. I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't see that Quesnel and Williams Lake cowboy country. Only just a few years ago I ran into the Rich Hobson books! |
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know the area well gmc.
was born in Dawson Crick, lived in PG too. also lived in 100 Mile House, Eagle Creek area, a few miles south of Williams lake. love driving the Cassiar, we quadded into the Cassiar mines from Jade City one yr, was an awesome ride, stayed at Boya and Watson lakes a few times as well. Salmon Glacier on the way to Stewart is pretty awe inspiring too been saving money for another trip up there in the near future. any of these these signs look familiar? Attachment 2091138Attachment 2091136Attachment 2091139Attachment 2091135Attachment 2091140 |
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a few old shots from one of our runs on the Cassiar.
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made a run up the Stikine to Telegraph creek one year...
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our old place on Resort road, Eagle creek. 45 acres
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Those signs are probably new since the late 1970s. We stayed at a private CG at McBride to get showers, and then next night at McLure(?) Lake along the Yellowhead but it has a "native" name now. I was pulling a travel trailer along with a huge load in the pickup bed so it was pretty slow, and the Cassiar was still under construction so lots of stop/wait and rough road. So we ended up stopping by the first Bell-Irving bridge. It was brand new then and only a couple of planks laid down over the primered steel. Pulled down into a steep "parking lot" and ran the rear wheels of the pickup up on some big old timbers lying around to somewhat level the trailer. I remember they had a little ball field with a couple benches labeled "Dease Stadium" :lol: And then Boya Lake. Didn't see much of the lake itself because it was about dark when we got there. Took an evening walk, though :) Coming out of there we got separated from the other couple in their car and didn't catch up to them until almost the Alcan Hwy. I thought they were behind us and kept slowing down while they were trying to catch up! Coming back south a couple years later just me and my dog I followed mostly the same route. The Cassiar highway was a lot better by then. I picked up a lot of hitchhikers. It was a different world back then. |
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them sign pics were taken around '98 with my my old kodak Instamatic 110, if you google map them, most of them are still there, but a little more worn and faded now.
last time we were on the Cassiar, it was prob about 40-50% gravel and we passed 1 rv and 1 C500 Kenworth the whole trip...ya, it WAS better back in the day..never saw any hitch hikers though at one point we stopped to let the mutts out and heard this crashing threw the bush, put the dogs back in the truck and watched this calf moose come stumbling and running out of the bush. a few seconds later we hear an even bigger crashing, what now?, and a black bear come out of the bush chasing the calf. Wow, that was pretty cool, 2 seconds later we hear an even LOUDER crashing in the bush...what in hell? all of a sudden here comes momma moose chasing her calf and the bear...supper time, Cassiar style i guess ;) same with Boya, we showed up and there was 2 or 3 other campers in there. wife starts cooking some steaks and i go for a walk around, wondering why no one is around, it's still light out. go back to the truck and look at the clock and it's 2 am, but bright as heck out. July long weekend, like 20 hrs or so of sunlight- took some getting used to. McBride is another place we have looked at property too, i used to haul shake blocks up to Valemount, love the scenery in the Rocky Mountain Trench, just gotta have them mountains ya know.. |
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We went up the Cassiar in 1977 and I drove back down in 1979. I haven't been over the Medicine Line since.
I picked up a guy in the YT - some junction, there was a big bridge there - and he rode with me all the way down to Stewart. Camped in little tents somewhere along the way, way late because it didn't get dark. Then picked up a nice couple when I hit the Yellowhead Hwy. They had been backpacking in Kluane NP, so I guess I just missed them earlier. They rode with me to PG and bought me a tank of gas and breakfast. We camped at a pull off sometime after it finally got dark. There was a nice little grassy spot next to where I parked the pickup. A few hours later there was an earthquake and lightning! Turns out we pitched our tents about 10 feet (3 meters - ha!) from a railroad track :lol: Oh, and going north the four of us in the camper we stopped at some place, might have been Boya Lake. My kitty ran out the door, and in the middle of the night we wake up hearing Meow! GROWL! Meow! GROWL! Meow! GROWL! Somebody opened the door and let him in and he didn't want to leave the trailer even after we got to Alaska! McBride was a also pretty spot. I couldn't believe how big the Fraser River was even at that point. I backed the trailer up to the trees right at the top of the bank. |
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typical frikkin' spring weather...work yer butt off all week in nice weather, then come the weekend, your time off and the weather takes a dump...
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little spur road that petered out..
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the road ended at a cutblock landing. good a place as any for a fire..
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cool. maybe this cloud will lift..
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