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Cool thread! Lots of great pictures. Thanks for pasting fellers.

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cool pics Billhilly!
went on a small expedition today with dawg. 'bout 120 miles up to John George lake. have not been up there since i was a teen, long drive with a major backtrack. my buddy went up there last fall, said they slashed a road threw from Boston Bar, knocking miles & hrs off the trip, said i might want to pre-run it with the stepper before i bring the crew & camper up it.....good plan :lol:
not going up the Coquihalla this time, heading up the Fraser Canyon
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heading up the canyon. there's 7 tunnels slammed threw the mountains
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hell's gate airtram
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we been on it quite a few times
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this is one of the longer tunnels in the canyon, just over a mile
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this bridge from Boston Bar to North Bend only went in in the mid '80's, before that you had to use the aerial car ferry, yup, aerial car ferry, you always prayed them wires would not break....:lol:
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https://www.google.ca/search?q=bosto...UIBygC&dpr=1.1

and here we go, north side heading out
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nice drive off the highway. avalanche shelter over the train tracks on the other side of the river
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if it was only the season....diesel wanted me to run one over & say it was a accident.....
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still heading in
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this is road buddy told me about
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steep, narrow, lots of off camber that the camper wont like. took me almost 2 hrs to go 10 miles. i video'ed it with my dash cam, looks really cool, but it's waaaaay to long to upload. should have cut it into segments i guess....
up & down over the mountains...:lol:
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some nice views on the powerline rd.
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dawg cooling off, this is where we get off the powerline rd & back on a normal gravel rd. John george lake is up a 20 mile valley that climbs to 'bout 11 or 12 thou feet. there is 6 or 7 lakes all connected by Kwoiek creek that are fed by Stukolait lake near the top of the valley. it's a spectacular place in the summer
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i pretty much knew that at that elevation, there was going to be snow. looking at the mountains & how mild this winter has been, i was hoping to get up to a mile or so from John George & hike the rest. was not happening, hit snow at the 8 mile mark :waah: little too far to be hoofing out in snow....notice how there is hardly any snow anywhere, except on the road...
i made it just around the corner then had all 3 wheels spinning...
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backing out of there, guess my 40% BF's are'nt good enough for that much....
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let dawg run down a spur rd
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really nice area up there. will be coming back in a month or so, maybe bring the quad in the crew....dont want to break down or get stuck out here...:lol:
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run into a couple more does. also came across 2 bucks within 30 seconds of each other, but they did not hang around long enough to get a pic, guess the girls like the attention :lol:
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this is where we were trying to get to, John George lake
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Love your stuff diesel! As always thank you for posting. I love my truck and lost my big boy of 12 years a couple back . Love to see you and diesel loving life.

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thanks bilf!
was riding up at Neskawatch creek area today, looking at old dog laying on his bed right now, he's all sore & stiff & old, not a young'un anymore...but he still loves going out :lol:
it's in the Slesse area, between Mt Rexford & McDonald peak. two seconds out of the truck & dawg has hit the water...
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dawg was determined to find a fish....or a stick...
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Williams peak
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Cool pics dieseldawg . How's the truck running these days ? Still looks great

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Goat Mountain range
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coming around the back of Rexford we can see part of Slesse
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heading home, blah! back to the grind tomorrow, in 80 plus heat...
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thanks Gov!
trucks running good, just looking more shabbier every yr....:lol:
really, really hoping to get a paint job this yr, picking up a lot of pinstripes the last couple yrs...

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loaded up!

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Cool pics diesel. Truck looks tough as always.

Good looking train, Steve! I didn't know you could pull doubles in MT. For some reason I always thought that was a Canadian thing. Make sure you can pull straight through at the gas pump!

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Nice setup!

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Beautiful country Dieseldawg!

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nice! what is that, 'bout a 20-22 footer?
maybe time for a toyhauler camper........:lol:

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thanks MTCK!
nope, not allowed, in bc anyways

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yeah, aint going to lie, it is a nice chunk of the planet to reside...:lol:

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much later than i was hoping, but better late then never...went & snatched the camper out of the boss'es barn (25 anniv. this month kinda pre-empted getting plates on the crew...:lol:)
seems like i have to jack the darn thing higher every yr....
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56" to the bed floor, i'm 5' 10" & have to stand on my tippie toes to swing the jack handle all the way threw it's arc...
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oh for the love of....dawg! the big idjit went for a romp in the swamp beside the barn. aint riding home in the crewcab.....
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oh yeah! good to have it back home...
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Ya it's 23ft from hitch to bumper. I had a 31ft toy hauler but the garage was too small so I sold it. I got this pumper pull camper for living in on a logging project but it's going up for sale and I would like a 25ft or less fifth wheel and ill still drag a toy trailer behind. The Miss likes her dirt bike so I'll need a bigger toy trailer to fit it on along with my wheeler. Total length right now is 58ft so I'm well under legal, dragging load is about 8500lbs, truck weighs 6000lbs before my butt is in it.

3+3 single cab is cramping the quarters ain't it?:lol:

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i like your wife! wish my wife rode a bike. i "downgraded" my KX to a quad (blah!) just so we could actually ride as a family (dont ask, riding a big bore 2 stroke with your family on quads is like trying to drive a top fueler in rush hour...:lol:) sigh.... i miss my bike:waah:
and it's just the angle of the pic's, she's my 4 ton honey, 3+3 crew. are you kidding? sitting in a reg cab with my family??.... on my holidays??? :lol:

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here's some iv got from a year or two ago.


http://i.imgur.com/ft61o3O.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/avYlhaG.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/zT8QSWb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/L5HIj1t.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bPdUhW7.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/zT8QSWb.jpg

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hahaha that's awesome! He-Man jacks must have been on sale and cheaper than a Hi-Lift. Don't drop the lug nuts now! :lol: good pics

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Soon to be 4x4! Great to camp with!

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started a new job, and that pushed all our holidays back a couple months....:waah:
so i dropped the camper & went riding up the Coquihalla yesterday.
i mention the hiway quite a bit in my posts, it's the star attraction of the tv show Highway to Hell, in 30 yrs this highway has claimed thousands of vehicles, majority of them on a section called "the smasher". it's a 4-6% grade for 10-12 miles, then goes up to 8-10% on the smasher for another couple miles. it's a hard pull up the hill if your heavy, overheated & on fire vehicles are common, and in the winter, thats were it gets it's reputation. if your going faster than 30-40 in the winter on this hill, your done for. of course everyone knows suv's & 4x4's can go threw anything....:lol:
made a short vid of going up & down the smasher. check out the jersey rail, beat all to heck, knocked out of whack, new ones replaced everywhere....going down is a better perspective of the hill. yeah, there's bigger & longer ones around, but the Coke has had it's fair share & then some, of carnage....
made these with the cheap 49 buck dash cam wife got. and ya, everyone is passing me, with 4:56's i cruise at 55-56
starts at the Box canyon chain up area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZwzO6plM0
going down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uwvCH2FOOk

never get tired of coming up here, it's like therapy...
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went to Coldwater creek area
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'bout the only place i could find where my ramps would reach
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then right into the only shade me & dawg could find- was in the low 90's
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rode into Alpaca Peak, first few miles were a little rough...
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should have known, son asked me the other day where the camera bag was, did'nt think nothing of it. batteries in the cam died at Alpaca, NO spares, jeezus that kid, one of the more scenic area's on the coke & i got a dead cam:sumo:
found out he needed them for his xbox controller (sigh, slap me in the head....) well i had some in the glove box, but not doing me any good when there 30 miles away...
so when i got back i took dawg & went for a cruise down this old stream bed
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send dawg in first, check the depth :lol:
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after 4.3 miles (according to my odo), had to stop. old dawg is 73 (human yrs) & i dont want to kill him. he wants to keep going but i have to stop him now or he's all gimped up the next day.
stopped for diesel to get a drink on the way out, this little girl was wandering around, no fear, took her sweet time, even dawg just sat there & watched, & he loves vension on the hoof...
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and i mean it when i say she took her sweet time....
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hate going home...
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Great video's Diesel! Looked like a great day to be on the road! I've only driven the Coke once, in the late eighties before the connector was finished. I reeeeally need to get back to BC! I'm dyin over here, helped one of the neighbour boys buy a ticket into Calgery last week, he's got a girl from Picture Butte he gonna visit.... got some other friends left Osoyoos the other day heading for Prudhoe Bay, and just got off the phone with my daughter in Switzerland. Got to work more, save more!
Enjoy your summer.

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it was nice back in the eighties Billhilly! not nearly as much traffic!
i think the hiway has been kinda two-edged. it used to be a very quiet & remote area before the hiway, now anybody can get to a lot more places, now it's like 15 minutes to get where you want to tear up your truck. before it was like tear your truck up for 2 days to get to where you want to tear the rest of it up.....:lol:it's opened up a lot of access.
if you get the chance when you get over here, you need to drive the "Whipsaw" it's one of the better & very scenic trails around here, it's our version of the Rubicon, it made some 4by mag (4 wheeler?) top ten in N America trails.
the connector is long done, it is one of the other 2 insanely long hard pulls on the Coke. leaving Merritt is like 15-20 kms of 4-8% grade & coming down the other side (Westbank) is like about a 25 km downhill run....just a big hill to get up & over, but very scenic at the top. like the Coke, get a 4by & get off the highway, some incredible back country.
and if your going to Kamloops from Merritt, ya got another nice 20k or so hill....
try to drive this, have'nt been down it since i had my K5, 'fraid the crew might be too big to run it....
https://www.google.ca/search?q=whips...UIBigB&dpr=1.1

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Awesome area! I'd love to hook up the train come up there and ride for a week.

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Bass fishing on the John Day River this last weekend.