post up your camping pics

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second one was again up to the door sills


lots of waterfalls cutting threw the road


another slide across the road

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this waterfall took a chunk of the road


'nother waterfall eating the road


there's only one nice spot you can get to the lake & there were some jeepers camped there, so me & dawg went here, which is not as scenic....

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could'nt get the "famous" foley shot, the ground around the lake was about a foot deep swamp...


foley creek leaving the lake


with people around, me and dawg headed over to Airplane creek. these mountains can be deadly to planes. just a few weeks before WW2 ended, a RCAF B-24 crashed into the back of Welch Mountain. all on board were killed. two of the engines were found in a creek, which was named Airplane creek


it's also the way to Baby Munday mountain...

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this is a memorial they made for the aircrew, the orig. one in the woods was destroyed by mother nature. there is part of one of the B-24 engines mounted there


some paint job hills, and these ones were only hub deep

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diesel in Airplane creek


dawg has good balance, was about a 60 ft long log about 10 ft in the air


on our way up Mundy. didnt go all the way, ran out of time & as usual the frikkin batteries clapped out....

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some shots around Mundy before the batts died

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woke up this mornin', dawg seemed more depressed than usual. he's been like that since Dixie-lou passed away, then 3 months ago, the wife's rat dog Spike died, so Diesel is on his own now...so i skipped work today and took dawg up to the Nahatlatch fire lookout. i needed to get out just as much as he does...
first time seen this kicking around, had to turn around and look again...


the usual, Hunter creek pit stop for dawg. that 28 days of rain last month did a number on the local creeks. Hunter came up high enough to lift this picnic table (guessin'4-500 lbs, it's concrete) off it's base and relocate it about 50 feet into the forest

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always takin pictures of the old Alexandria bridge from the new one, decided today to hike down to it. it has gotten really bad shape since the last time i went down to it. prob not be standing within a few more yrs. wonder if they will dis-mantle it or let it fall naturally...


pretty bad, it has completely broke threw here


but it's neat, has a open deck

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the "new" Alexandria bridge


bridge deck is not good for dawg, his paws are the size of the holes


greeny green...

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waterfall...


heading into Nahatlatch


turn off to the lookout aint to bad of shape, just steep in some spots

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heading here...
50.022567, -121.601291
about 8 miles from the lookout, the road started getting a little rough. was using 4lo a lot today. pics dont show, but from here up it was around 10-15% grade most of the way. had some major drainage issues from last months rain

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yup, drainage prob...


then i got into the clouds, there is about a 1500 ft drop beyond them trees


then it started snowing...first one up, no other tracks...

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had a couple "slidy" moments, nice thing bout the clouds, cant see the edge coming..
but we made it to the top of the mountain. prob be the last vehicle for awhile, rain for the next 10 days which prob means a couple more ft of snow up here.


unfortunatley the clouds wiped out the million dollar view today....from the top of the lookout

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inside the lookout
signed the book...


if you get lost while up here (the road continues on for another 10 miles, but it's basiclly a quad road now unless you dont like your truck....)


heading down. if you look closely, you can see dawg in the pictures, he camaflouges pretty good. old mutt hiked all the way down the mountain- 8 miles!

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some views after we got down out of the clouds


almost had supper....road chicken

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heading home, Nahatlatch river


waterfall just out of Boston Bar


ran into some heavy fog, could just make out the other side of Alexandria bridge


stopped at Lake of the Woods just outside of Hope for puppy p break. it's only 4:30 pm and already it's dark. cam dont work too good when it's dark...

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this is what i shot at Lake of the Woods after i lightened the exposure...

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if your wondering what the views are like....some are mine, some are web


in 2012 the 4WD assoc of bc tore down the crumbling orig & rebuilt an exact duplicate of it

[snj8198]

Absolutely awesome views! Thanks for all the pics. Makes me jealous. Now that I think about it, why do you tease us like this? I don't have to put up with this.

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thanks SNJ
sorry, i'll try not to tease....



whoops...how did those get in there....

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How recent are these pics? Any snow there yet? If I remember you are just north of me in BC. This has been a very mild starting winter out west. Last year at this time I was half way to my knees in snow logging and 30 below. November was the coldest month of the winter here.

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welp, been putting some big miles on the stepper this week.
went up to my dad's place in Falkland, 'bout 250 miles each way, a 3 to 3 1/2 drive by hiway....but i hate the highway- too boring. i take a shortcut threw Douglas lake ranch, 'bout 40 miles shorter each way, but takes longer- around 5 hrs. not because it's a knarly rd, but because it has MAJOR washboard 90% of the way. even with IFS i was 1st or 2nd gear all the way, any faster and the truck would start skittering sideways. desolate place, dont really want to break down there...
went to help my dad work on his retirement home, mite need this to move material (heh heh...)


just as i was leaving, a storm rolled in. got a one in a million shot, a flash of lightning, threw the truck window, as i'm driving...ta-daaa


cows hanging out...


'bout a 40 min drive out of Merritt out in the middle of nowhere is this big hydro station

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all the douglas lake ranch buildings are at the beginning


few miles down the road is this abandoned place...and yeah, thats a '71 chevy cab sitting there...


then ya start to get out into nothingness...for miles lol

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there's cows and horses wandering around. came across these pony's in my travels

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this pond is grandly called Salmon lake. the creek flows over 80 miles to right past my dad's place


salmon creek at the end of the gravel road....finally


and into Falkland, all 600 residents



dad's place is just out of town by the mountain