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Great trip and writeups! Brings back memories of doing that trip with Gary T. :D

We made it, I will post more details later today

Great trip Mike!!!

Day one, travel day. We started our adventure around 8 am leaving maple ridge. We had not even hit Harrison yet and I encountered my first problem. I did a coolant flush days before and didn't seat a hose clamp well and it was leaking everywhere...

Day 2, part 1 We departed churn creek before the sun hit out side of the valley. Heading past churn creek info station and up empire valley road. This was a good hour of gravel travel before we started taking turns, with each one, the trails...

Day 2 part 2, This is where the shenanigans began, as you wind down the shelf roads you get the the bottom of the valley. At the bottom is a lot of fun multiple creek crossings and a good wash out. Kim attempted to roll over going down the one...

Day 2 part 3... Now heading back the right direction again. I hooked a tree and blew out a tire... fun location to change along a narrow shelf roads but like a Nascar crew we had it swapped in about 15 minutes. Fast forwarding to where we had to...

Day 3 It was a chilly morning. I wish we could have had a fire. We packed up and carried on. There was evidence people has been in to the lake from the poison side. As suspected the trail was cleared already and we didnt need to bring the saw out...

The weather on this trip was excellent, but we had threats of thunder/lightning and rain but it didn't materialize, or so we thought. A few pics to supplement Mike's.

More day 3 photos

Some alternative day 3 photos with Windy Ridge outside road.

Day 3, rest of the trip after the trail, Since we were ahead of schedule we decided we would take the lower poison road and go out yalokom and head back towards the coast. Find some where to camp closer to nahatlatch. But yalokom had other...

Can't get much more Coastal Cruising than this; high tide was only a couple of feet from the tent

I think I may have found a new favourite spot, and less than an hour from my house.

Oh, I wish, but unfortunatelyi can't. Especially because I don't like work 😜. I want to hear all about it, and see photos (or it didn't happen). Darryl may be in, I'll let him know.

This trial has been on my list as well as a few other cruiser heads for some time now but the trip has never come together. Well Myself and Kim have decided that this coming long weekend we are going to take a crack at it. I thought I would...

Saw this today in our parking lot. Have yet to find the owner. Looks freshly restored.

Odds & ends...

This September, my local club here (Sunset Wheelers) have organized a barge trip up Powell Lake to explore the Daniels Valley. We have filled the barge with 13 vehicles and it will be a leisurely ~1.5 hour cruise up to the very head of the lake...

Had a pretty good turnout, lots of new faces too 😎 Huge thanks to Rob for all the work these take! 👍🏻👍🏻 @speycaster picked up the Iron Butt award this year Best of Show This 70 was factory Diesel V8…man it sounded good 😍