post up your camping pics

[blue 72 gmc 4x4]

Soon to be 4x4! Great to camp with!

[dieseldawg142]

started a new job, and that pushed all our holidays back a couple months....
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....
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...


went to Coldwater creek area

[dieseldawg142]

'bout the only place i could find where my ramps would reach


then right into the only shade me & dawg could find- was in the low 90's


rode into Alpaca Peak, first few miles were a little rough...

[dieseldawg142]

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
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


send dawg in first, check the depth

[dieseldawg142]

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...

[dieseldawg142]

and i mean it when i say she took her sweet time....


hate going home...

[Billhilly]

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.

[dieseldawg142]

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.....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

[snj8198]

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

[AntiGov]

Bass fishing on the John Day River this last weekend.

[AntiGov]

Brought the 690 to shuttle the truck and small trailer down river from camp 10 miles

[AntiGov]

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[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by snj8198

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

you should! It's atv/bike/sxs/sled heaven !!
can ride for days & never cross your tracks...

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by AntiGov

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cool Gov!!
toyhauler!
can we see the inside...

[Average Joe]

View of Mt Thielson from Crater Lake NP

[Average Joe]

Camping at Union Creek, OR

[dieseldawg142]

went up to Nahatlatch valley.
the usual, dawg pit stop at hunter creek


Yale, a small town at the head of the Fraser Canyon, this was as far as the paddlewheelers could go up the river.
a few miles left of the orig. Cariboo Wagon road, pioneers & prospecters trudged down this same path over 150 yrs ago, & when the Fraser river was high, there's a trail at the top of this mountain they climbed over


this stretch of the Fraser yielded hundreds of millions of dollars in gold

[dieseldawg142]

this unassuming bar, which is covered by high water right now, coughed up approx 40 million in gold


one of the oldest churches in BC, Yale, was built 1863


this ordinairy little trail down to the river stretches back in time...


....all the way to 1850, the exact trail at the same spot

[dieseldawg142]

there's 7 tunnels in the lower Fraser canyon
one, two


three, four


five & six

[dieseldawg142]

and seven


the old Alexandria bridge seen threw the guard rail of the new Alexandria bridge.
the Fraser actually rose over the deck of the old bridge once


some views on the way up

[dieseldawg142]

roads were a little dusty behind me...


but pretty clear in front of me...


stopped at this waterfall for dawg, made him happy


there

[dieseldawg142]

the Nahatlatch river starts up in the mountains in a 60 mile valley, then flows into 3 lakes, then becomes a river again near the bottom of the valley. here the river is about 50-60 feet below the bridge at the bottom


then the river climbs up to the road


where it hits the first lake, Frances.


and dawg swimming in Frances lake

[dieseldawg142]

next up the valley is Hannah Lake


at about 20 miles in

[dieseldawg142]

and coming up to the last, and biggest, Nahatlatch Lake



road chicken...

[dieseldawg142]

Nahatlatch lake


further up the valley