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yeah bilfman, he's my bestest buddy in the whole world! spent more time with him in the last 10 yrs than any human (more enjoyable..:lol:) he goes pretty much everywhere with us
i've been trying to keep him real busy the last 10 months since Dixie passed away last yr..:(:(:( it has affected him BIG time losing his life-long partner....so i try to take him out alot & keep his mind off it.
she's sleeping in our back yard, and yeah, i snivelled like a baby when she went....
dreading the day when dawg joins Dixie digging for bones in that big kennel in the sky....

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I hear ya loud and clear . Truly mans best friend, and no where near an understatement .

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kid is at a buddy's b.day, wifey is shopping, grabbed the dawg & the qwad & spent the day tooling around the Coquilhalla.
pit stop for dawg at Hunter creek
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traffic was surprisingly lite on the "Coke" this morning
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'nother pit stop, Sowaqua creek
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had planned on doing some riding at Carolin mine, but some moron wrecked that. during the fire ban last summer, somebody went down the pipeline access & started a fire. they were actually mopping up this fire when we went by last july on our holidays. anyways, to prevent it again, they blocked off the access. used to be able to drive across the creek- not anymore....
too bad, this leads in to THE BACK country
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pretty tough to get across now, maybe if you had a rock buggy....
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you can see how the fire ran right up the pipeline
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back on the Coke, still pretty lite traffic
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decided to head into Falls lake
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beautiful area, and them waves are from dawg...
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...swam out & fetched a "stick"....
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headed over to Larson's Hill, prob the best place in n. america to ride or go sledding. hundreds & hundreds of miles of trails going all over the mountains
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thats SAR's emergency shelter full of rescue gear, get a lot of sledders in trouble in the winter (avalanches)
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decided to take dawg & head to Britton Creek
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really nice & QUIET area
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lunch time for the dawg...
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riding around Britton creek. awesome way to spend the day....sucks, be tearing off 40 square of roof tomorrow at work....
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hope thats not a body....
prob someones pet. somebody went thru a lot of effort to bring their buddy up here, beautiful resting area though...
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me & the dawg had a great time today
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back on the Coke, heading down, traffic is starting to show up now. 3/4 of a tank to get up here & fart around, now it's time to coast for 20 miles at 60 mph (even with 4:56's)
and yeah, there is 4 runaway lanes on the hill, i've never used them, but i've seen a few rigs nail them in the winter....
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Dieseldawg142 that is some beautiful country you live in, I always enjoy your pictures. I would love to go camping in that area, maybe one day. Awesome dog you have there as well.

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Hey Dieseldawg, found my 4by srw Crew , picking it up this weekend! Pretty stoked, just gonna make her a work truck for now and when my 9 yr old boy is a few years older build it for him.

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Alright Bilfman, sounds like time for a build thread. Another 4x 3+3 is exciting.

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I'll definitely post a thread. I love the 1 ton 4x4z . No plans on this one being too pretty, just a beastly functional workhorse.

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yup, post some pics of your new ride bilfman!
and yeah, i'm thinking mite haft to hide the crew keys in 5 more yrs unless i can find the boy something...:lol:

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thanks Shortbox!
it'll be beautiful for a few more weeks, then 10 feet of winter sets in....:lol:

visited some of wifey's relatives, stopped at coldwater creek for awhile on the way home....
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and my wife is sooo friendly, she always gives me the one finger wave when i point the cam at her....
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a couple of Jamie Davis's old trucks from Highway Thru Hell (we pass his yard on the way home)
Rescue 150, the converted fire truck behind the old Western
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and Bruce's old Heavy Rescue 50 peterbilt. it was pretty famous on the Coquihalla long before it was on the show
in it's better days (local truck show)
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after running the Coke for awhile, looking a little beat...
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River trip

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whatcha got in the trailer Gov.....?

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Guns😳

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talk about extremes in weather. we went for a drive up the Fraser canyon to Blue lake a couple weekends ago, as you can see, weather was outstanding, little chilly, but sunny....
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thats the Fraser river down there
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Blue had a scum layer of ice on it already
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....then yesterday we got hammered with 50-70 mph winds & about 6-8 inches of rain
thats not fog, thats rain sheeting COMPLETELY horizontally
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our front window never sees rain, we have a 12 foot patio overhang....
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dang! there goes the power, brite side! we get to "camp" in our house for 20 hrs! yayyy!
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woke up this morning & our bathroom skylight was ripped off. found it in the back yard, incredibly it survived a 20 foot fall, was able to put it back on. only damage was some slightly wet drywall & a puddle on the floor. only thing wrecked was a stack of my four wheeler, truck trend magazines.
on the way to the kids school
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kids were'nt allowed outside till hydro addressed this mess on their playground
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trees down everywhere, too many too take pics
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a bit of damage around our street
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guy at the end of the street was lucky, this just barely tagged the front of his house
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enough of the carnage, i'm going up to chilliwack lake.
wow, at the turn-off & this storm brought down quite a bit of logs & debris...
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aahhh! always nice getting up here...
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...but not for long, there's trees down everywhere
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every 1000 ft or so, tree on the lines, anyone with an electrical truck or tree pruner is golden today...
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tried to get into Foley lake...
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tried to get into Riverside....
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...tried getting into Slesse, not happening. stupid me, never thought to bring my chainsaw or grab the yank strap out of the crew....
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decided to head to Tamihi creek. spotted a fire, took a couple pics, then actually ran into the forest ranger a couple miles down the road. he did not seem concerned about it all. said they were prob slash burning at Riverside. told him i was just there & it's blocked, he just kinda shrugged at me-hmph, kinda lackadaisal attitude about something burning in the forest, 'specially after all the huge fires we just had in the last few months....
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on the way to Tamihi tried the backside of Slesse. be careful when following your dog, i told diesel we SHOULD have turned left....easy to get in, bit of a pia getting out, had to flatten a small tree
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alright diesel, you better be sure & not screw up again...
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ok, he got it this time, could'nt get to the mountain, but got to slesse creek
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whoa! brakes...
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'bout a 50 foot drop to the river
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tried to get a pic of the cave, when the water is low is much easier. i lightened the exposure to bring up the cave
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once again heading to tamihi...
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the kayakers are gonna like this, rain is starting to bring up the rapids. they get REAL big during spring run-off
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hi water has turned the trail into an un-accessable island right now...
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decided to hike up the mountain instead. you know dawg-any water, pond or puddle....
my dawg has no head...loch-ness puppy
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ok, my dawg has a head.....i think, maybe not....
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alright, he DOES have a head, found what he was looking for...
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i didn't take rat-dawg (spike) out much when dixie was alive, but with just him & diesel now, he's turning into wild-dawg. one of the problems of a small dawg, took a pic of him, yes he's in there, under the fern
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tuff being small in a big world...:lol:
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cold weather no-camping blues....
son and me headed up to Foley lake today. nice clear sunny skies, but we're sitting under an artic outflow right now and it's in the 20's temp wise
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all along the river on the way up everything was coated in a heavy coat of hoar frost
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bench road turn-off to foley
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stopped at the foley lake turn for dawg pit stop....
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ears flyin', tongue flappin'....:lol:
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the frost looked better in person...
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road in is not bad, lot of branches hanging everywhere....added a few more pinstripes...
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everything is freezing up....
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...but we came across 3 big puddles today that were'nt froze. the first & last one were only 5-6" deep, the middle one was up to the door sills
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here's why they were'nt froze...
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this was beside the waterfall
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some of the mts up there
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that's Baby Munday, first one next season on mine & son's list to climb
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had a almost crap my pants moment on this little hill. up there by the corner we hit a patch of sheer ice & started sliding backwards to the edge
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son bailed & jumped out, low gears, BFG's, & some soft snow stopped me with 'bout 8" to the edge....the waterfall where my kid bailed ran across the road, then froze & frosted over so you could'nt see it
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this was as close as we could get to foley-mile or so, tree blocking the road
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here's what foley looks like without winter
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maybe we cant get to foley, but can teach the kid how to bumper-ski....
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he loved it! thought it was a blast
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seein how we were in the neighborhood, we took a drive over to chilliwack lake
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last week my son broke threw the ice on this puddle, got 2 shin high soakers :lol: exactly seven days later & it can hold my truck (even after a couple donuts)
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