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[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by dieseldawg142

know the area well gmc.
was born in Dawson Crick, lived in PG too.
also lived in 100 Mile House, Eagle Creek area, a few miles south of Williams lake.
love driving the Cassiar, we quadded into the Cassiar mines from Jade City one yr, was an awesome ride, stayed at Boya and Watson lakes a few times as well.
Salmon Glacier on the way to Stewart is pretty awe inspiring too
been saving money for another trip up there in the near future.
any of these these signs look familiar?
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Oh, yes ... I remember Boya Lake quite well

Those signs are probably new since the late 1970s.

We stayed at a private CG at McBride to get showers, and then next night at McLure(?) Lake along the Yellowhead but it has a "native" name now. I was pulling a travel trailer along with a huge load in the pickup bed so it was pretty slow, and the Cassiar was still under construction so lots of stop/wait and rough road.

So we ended up stopping by the first Bell-Irving bridge. It was brand new then and only a couple of planks laid down over the primered steel. Pulled down into a steep "parking lot" and ran the rear wheels of the pickup up on some big old timbers lying around to somewhat level the trailer.

I remember they had a little ball field with a couple benches labeled "Dease Stadium"

And then Boya Lake. Didn't see much of the lake itself because it was about dark when we got there. Took an evening walk, though Coming out of there we got separated from the other couple in their car and didn't catch up to them until almost the Alcan Hwy. I thought they were behind us and kept slowing down while they were trying to catch up!

Coming back south a couple years later just me and my dog I followed mostly the same route. The Cassiar highway was a lot better by then. I picked up a lot of hitchhikers. It was a different world back then.

[dieseldawg142]

them sign pics were taken around '98 with my my old kodak Instamatic 110, if you google map them, most of them are still there, but a little more worn and faded now.
last time we were on the Cassiar, it was prob about 40-50% gravel and we passed 1 rv and 1 C500 Kenworth the whole trip...ya, it WAS better back in the day..never saw any hitch hikers though
at one point we stopped to let the mutts out and heard this crashing threw the bush, put the dogs back in the truck and watched this calf moose come stumbling and running out of the bush. a few seconds later we hear an even bigger crashing, what now?, and a black bear come out of the bush chasing the calf. Wow, that was pretty cool, 2 seconds later we hear an even LOUDER crashing in the bush...what in hell? all of a sudden here comes momma moose chasing her calf and the bear...supper time, Cassiar style i guess

same with Boya, we showed up and there was 2 or 3 other campers in there. wife starts cooking some steaks and i go for a walk around, wondering why no one is around, it's still light out. go back to the truck and look at the clock and it's 2 am, but bright as heck out. July long weekend, like 20 hrs or so of sunlight- took some getting used to.

McBride is another place we have looked at property too, i used to haul shake blocks up to Valemount, love the scenery in the Rocky Mountain Trench, just gotta have them mountains ya know..

[1976gmc20]

We went up the Cassiar in 1977 and I drove back down in 1979. I haven't been over the Medicine Line since.

I picked up a guy in the YT - some junction, there was a big bridge there - and he rode with me all the way down to Stewart. Camped in little tents somewhere along the way, way late because it didn't get dark. Then picked up a nice couple when I hit the Yellowhead Hwy. They had been backpacking in Kluane NP, so I guess I just missed them earlier. They rode with me to PG and bought me a tank of gas and breakfast. We camped at a pull off sometime after it finally got dark. There was a nice little grassy spot next to where I parked the pickup. A few hours later there was an earthquake and lightning! Turns out we pitched our tents about 10 feet (3 meters - ha!) from a railroad track

Oh, and going north the four of us in the camper we stopped at some place, might have been Boya Lake. My kitty ran out the door, and in the middle of the night we wake up hearing Meow! GROWL! Meow! GROWL! Meow! GROWL! Somebody opened the door and let him in and he didn't want to leave the trailer even after we got to Alaska!

McBride was a also pretty spot. I couldn't believe how big the Fraser River was even at that point. I backed the trailer up to the trees right at the top of the bank.

[dieseldawg142]

typical frikkin' spring weather...work yer butt off all week in nice weather, then come the weekend, your time off and the weather takes a dump...
well good day to do an oil change on the stepper i guess...but first i gotta warm up the engine.
took the mutts up to a part of the valley haven't been to in quite a few yrs.

[dieseldawg142]

normally i would just drive over these...


but i got time today. don't have my chainsaw wit me today, but i do have this...



this puddle surprisingly came halfway up the tires..

[dieseldawg142]

little spur road that petered out..


there's the road down in the bottom of the valley


actually got to see a bit of the mountains

[dieseldawg142]

the road ended at a cutblock landing. good a place as any for a fire..


hard to belive i'm surrounded by 7-8000 ft mountains..

[mikelom]

Very nice pics. Looks like your pups love the outdoors also.

[Ol Blue K20]

Some beautiful country. The dogs are happy kids.....

[1976gmc20]

You should make videos of your doggone expeditions and put them on ewe toob

[dieseldawg142]

i do have some crazy video of the mutts GMC, but my internet provider changed all kinds of stuff and can't seem to log in to utube yet...
'bout 3 weeks ago a train started a fire near our shop where i take the dawgs down to the canal...
was heading back to the shop after work and seen a couple choppers with water buckets and about 7 or 8 fire trucks fighting the fire. was about a mile or so long and going down between the tracks and the road. we actually seen the smoke from it over 20 miles away before we got there.

[dieseldawg142]

the dawgs really enjoy hanging out at the canal..
water level is pretty low , the snow melt hasn't started yet...

[dieseldawg142]

out in the back country, got stopped by this. actually the car didn't stop us, the downed trees did
looks like a toyota corolla(?) prob another stolen vehicle, sadly i seem to be coming across more of these lately...real good for the bush


Rumbledawg just has to play in the mud...

[dieseldawg142]

back at the canal 2 weeks ago
beaver is still working that log, and the water level is rising


one week after the fire and nature is already curing itself

[Ol Blue K20]

Beautiful country and some gorgeous pics. The dogs should of slept pretty good that night.

[dieseldawg142]

i wish Dale, the 2 of them are a mile a minute...
with the heat wave we had, the canal and tributary rivers are coming up with the snow melt. can still see the handrail at the canal


Rumble jumping up to see whats on the other side of the grass


took the mutts to a little creek, Rumble really likes laying in water...weird


and using the creek as a bidet...

[dieseldawg142]

tug of war wit a stick


meanwhile Roxie is digging a hole to sit in...

[dieseldawg142]

Roxie usually has good balance...


but on this day she fell into a 3 ft hole, luclily she landed on a rock where i could reach her and pull her out, cause the hole went down another 3-4 ft..


took the crew down to the canal....this is a place where a long wheelbase comes in handy...

[dieseldawg142]

this puddle was 'bout twice the length of the crew, and almost to the top of the tires

[Ol Blue K20]

Beautiful country and pics. The dogs have a blast too!

[Ol Blue K20]

Gorgeous and looks like fun!!

[Zoomad75]

Completed another run to Moab for Blazer Bash. No breakage, short of a couple of split duratrac tires.

Dewey Bridge, or what's left of it.


Heading up the Top of the World trail solo.


At the top.




Camping down from the top.


Sunset.


Cooking up some steaks on grandma's 100-year-old cast iron. Phenominal.


Steelbender trail.




At Wipeout hill on 7 mile rim (backwards Bill).






I also lead a small group out on an easier set of trails. Potash rd to Schaffer switchbacks and Gemini bridges road. Here we are at Thelma and Louise point.

[dieseldawg142]

Originally Posted by Zoomad75

Completed another run to Moab for Blazer Bash. No breakage, short of a couple of split duratrac tires.



Steelbender trail.


At Wipeout hill on 7 mile rim (backwards Bill).

looks like a real cool trip Zoomad.
stellar pic of the blaze at Top of the World!
did you swap out your headlights for halogen or led? don't recall seeing them lights in your truck...
really liking that black(?) sub in the front row, how did a big long beast like him do on the trails?

[Zoomad75]

Thanks. I swapped out the core support for a single headlight version to allow for better lighting. So those are H4 conversion housings fitted with H4 style LED Bulbs.

That Burb is probably the most capable Suburban out there. ORD 4 link/coil-over up front and custom ORD 63" springs with a stock shackle orientation (not a flipped shackle). It's a really well thought out setup and the install is second to none. He's rolling on 40" maxxis rubber too. He invited us out on steel bender where I snapped this pic.


He completed Pritchett Canyon Saturday too which is one of the gnarlyest trails in the Moab area. If you watch any Youtube, you might have already seen it in construction. He's got a really cool channel over there that he documented the suspension changes. Look up Willomet Motor and Fab on Youtube.

[72c20customcamper]

Roughing it smoothly