post up your camping pics

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some nameless lakes on the way in


almost there..


last few miles were rough. smacked the front skidplate on wife's truck twice, once real hard enough to get out and check....she of course was not impressed and did'nt like the road....


and here we go, Andy's lake

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one last stop in the Coquihalla river for Dawg


no idea what yr this is, all's i know is i had to slow down to less than 50 so the kid could snap a pic. must be a s-l-o-w go heading anywhere in this...


tomorrow me and the kid are going to hike into the old Ladner creek train trestle bridge on the Coke

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any rail buffs?
there used to be a railroad (Kettle Valley Railway) running up through the Coquihalla, from pioneer days till around '59 or '60 i belive. was just too expensive and tough to keep open, slides everywhere constantly and immense snows, plus a "easier" route threw the Fraser Canyon. there is quite a bit of the old railbed left up here, which is used by atv'ers, sledders, hikers, bikers. it passes through some beautiful country, quite a bit of what i have posted is off the KVR.
me and the kid went for a short but sharp hike to the Ladner creek train bridge today. from the bridge down to Hope has got some of the best features. There is the Othello tunnels, 5 tunnels blasted right threw the mountains with 5 bridges between them over the Coquihalla Canyon, very impressive area. been there many times, we went there today, but there was like 7 or 8 chinese tour buses with about 2 bajillion chinese everywhere....
Rambo First Blood was filmed here, where Stallone launches himself off the cliff

cool old film of one of the last trains to run the KVR. Ladner bridge looks much better then...lol
it starts not too far from my house at Ruby Creek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw3bRlFkJqY

also found some old web pics of the Ladner bridge. old school, what safety lines...

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some more of the bridge

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passed this nice sub on the way out


turned off at Carolin mine, up to Ladner creek


the Coquihalla hiway over Ladner creek

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we have to get up to the old railbed, steep and rocky, but not very far.
up to the hiway


some lose rock at the beginning


then it turns into about a 50 degree trail

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then we hit another rocky area


and some more steep stuff...