Four Days stuck in 1st and 2nd gear low Range

[Deny]

Well hopefully it works, here is Adam crossing the first big river:

Wheeling in Tumbler River Crossing 1 - YouTube

I know it doesn't look as intense in the video, but believe me, it was!

 

[Deny]

Here is me crossing the second crossing, this was a fairly simple crossing. I don't think the other two vids that turned out are worth posting, one is 20min long on pretty much the least exciting part of the entire trail, and the other is adam coming back over the first river crossing after the river had gone down a foot or two since we went in.

Wheeling in Tumbler Crossing 2 - YouTube

Cheers,
Deny

 

[boozewz]

Man o man...thanks for taking the time to post these up Deny. I dont want these trip reports to end

One of these days, I'd love to ship my 76 wagon over and do all those trails in the US and Canada. These dunes out here in Saudi are starting to get boring.....

But this trail seems like its in the middle of nowhere in Canada. Where the heck is this place anyways I totally understand if you dont want to reveal your secret wheeling spot!

 

[kim]

There is a lot of 'middle of nowhere' in Canada.

 

[Deny]

Oh not a problem, it's in the middle of no where, sort of tough to find, but if you were to drive, go to the Northeastern part of BC, then head south along the Rocky Mountains to a place called Tumbler Ridge, then keep heading south to a little part of BC that is only accessible from the North, you can't even get there from the east and Alberta, as there are no road (well sort of, but not really), plus no roads west or south to Prince George. So anyway about an hour or two south of Tumbler Ridge, get on an oil field gravel road for roughly 25km, then another 16 km of a poorly maintained oil field gravel road (old logging road really), then take another 10 or so on another really unmaintained logging road where people can still get pickups down to, then hit a washed out creek where the 30km trail to the mountain pass and lake are. Don't worry, it took us a few years to find this trail, I think it will take a while for someone to find, and take a long time for someone from the middle east to find I try to not point out the exact location, as I don't want to see a lot of yahoos going in there as even the heavy quad use is taking it's toll on parts of that trail, can't imagine what a group of unlocked trucks would do to the soft parts of the trail. If you want to look at a map, look for Tumbler Ridge BC, then head south, and roughly 75km north of the highway linking Prince George with Jasper is the area we like to play in.
Cheers,
Deny

PS Me and Adam bought a small 14ft fiberglass boat to drag to the lake today at lunch, hoping to haul it to the lake on August long weekend. Should be good!

 

[Deny]

Old baby blue we just got Gonna patch it a little and paint it up.

 

[boozewz]

Oh not a problem, it's in the middle of no where, sort of tough to find, but if you were to drive, go to the Northeastern part of BC, then head south along the Rocky Mountains to a place called Tumbler Ridge, then keep heading south to a little part of BC that is only accessible from the North, you can't even get there from the east and Alberta, as there are no road (well sort of, but not really), plus no roads west or south to Prince George. So anyway about an hour or two south of Tumbler Ridge, get on an oil field gravel road for roughly 25km, then another 16 km of a poorly maintained oil field gravel road (old logging road really), then take another 10 or so on another really unmaintained logging road where people can still get pickups down to, then hit a washed out creek where the 30km trail to the mountain pass and lake are. Don't worry, it took us a few years to find this trail, I think it will take a while for someone to find, and take a long time for someone from the middle east to find I try to not point out the exact location, as I don't want to see a lot of yahoos going in there as even the heavy quad use is taking it's toll on parts of that trail, can't imagine what a group of unlocked trucks would do to the soft parts of the trail. If you want to look at a map, look for Tumbler Ridge BC, then head south, and roughly 75km north of the highway linking Prince George with Jasper is the area we like to play in.
Cheers,
Deny

PS Me and Adam bought a small 14ft fiberglass boat to drag to the lake today at lunch, hoping to haul it to the lake on August long weekend. Should be good!

Thats a nearly 4,000km drive from San Diego, which is what my starting point would be........It will probably be a decade or two before I can attempt a trip like that......hopefully your 60 series will still be around to take us through the route

and ya that 14 footer would be a good way to rescue your buddy in his bronco should the current take him downstream. Just motor down to him with the winch cable in hand. This should free you up to film all the water crossings, and not panic and shut off the camera the moment it looks hairy

Chapeau...Cant wait for the next trip report!

 

[Deny]

Yeah, that's nothing, I've driven down to Surf and Turf and past San Diego one year in my old BJ42 from up here. Oh and I am hoping my 60 will be retired soon as I am hoping to get a 40 series troopy to replace it in the next few years, and eventually build a 40 series pick up out of my spare rusty BJ42 that I have. But don't worry we will be going in here for a long time still, planning on another two or three trips this year, but slowly our photo taking will dwindle as we would have pictures from the whole trail soon and it just doesn't make sense to keep taking pictures of the same thing

Ha Ha, yeah the boat would come in handy for that, but it will mostly be just a lake boat for our fishing endevours and just exploring the lake (possibly a few of the other lakes in that area as well

 

[Deny]

Well, what can I say, another amazing trip. Was all good except the fact that it looks like there are no fish at the lake we go to, then on the way out turned into a test of wheeling skill and recovery as one truck died, then the brakes died, then rear ended Adams bronco twice, and didn't get home till after midnight and if things would have gone smooth, we were on pace for being at home by 6:00. Oh well, good times. Did find a nice lake we had to hike down from the trail, might have some potential for fish, will have to drag a canoe down there next time to have a look Will pick away at the story with photos as I have time, here are a few to start, the big bad bronco loaded and ready to help us with our boating adventure, the fireweeds were out in force and making the erie forest seem strangly beautiful, then the lake we spent a few hours hunting for in the bush.

 

[Ratpuke]

Looks beautiful! Wish I had been there with you guys.

 

[AJAEbj42]

Beauty! I'd be diving into that lake in a heartbeat!

 

[Deny]

whoa, there rob, this water is freezing cold, I could barely get across to the gravel bar with no shoes on. Although we were sweaty and hot on the last day so we took a dip in the freezing cold river by the second river crossing and man did it feel amazing after the balls dropped from the inside. And then standing around drinking a beer as the sun went down with no bugs as we dried off and warmed up was just awsome, somehow that second river crossing just can't be beat, never want to leave that place.

 

[boozewz]

Nice one Deny....Lets see some more pics!

It sure does look like an awesome place to wheel!

 

[Deny]

Started out on Friday morning leaving town, and trying to make the second river crossing so we could make a good stab at making the lake to try a little fishing for Saturday night and Sunday morning with a little trail clearing all day saturday. Anyway didn't get too many pics of the first part as we were pushing in hard to get there quick and we already have a tonn of photos from the first part of the trail. Everything went well and we left town at 10 and made the campsite by 6.

 

[Deny]

Started off past the 2nd river crossing with good intentions of clearing the rest of the 5km we had left to the lake, only a minor hang up on one of the steep creek crossings

 

[Deny]

Then we cleared all day from 9 till 3, and we said forget it as we only got one km in, so we started pushing to the lake so we could get the boat on the lake by 4 or 5. The trail just got denser and we remembered why we swore we would't go to the lake until we cleared it.

 

[Deny]

There were places we couldn't see the trail and just drove as the willows and alders spread apart to show us the way. We ended up just cutting a few of the bad spots that caused us to get body damage last time and then let the rest scrape and scratch away. Adam tore both mirrors off, Kendrick lost a front light plastic peice as well as a got a few dents, and I only got scratches and one small dent from my trailer hitting my truck. Got to the lake around 5.

 

[Deny]

Then we pulled out the boat motor from the trailer (which was also packed with some fire wood since this lake doesn't have any dead wood around it), pulled the boat off the bronco and went fishing!

 

[Deny]

Then we got out on the lake, which was amazing, the views were breathtaking. Was just windy enough to keep the bugs away, and really after a beer or two I really forgot we were actually trying to catch some fish We were quite disapointed we didn't get any bites, but we did a quick exploration of the lake and a few of it's inlets, which were really cool, then set up camp as the sun went down and burnt the wood we brought in till we nearly all passed out at the fire quite early since we were all pretty tired from the long day trail clearing.

 

[Deny]

We then awoke in the morning to another beautiful day with the sun burning down, the wind died down and the lake water was like a glass sheet. So we decided to jump in the boat and try a bit more fishing, which turned into more exploring as well since we were again getting no bites and didn't see any fish jumping. Checked the water depth, was about 50 ft and clear to the bottom, rocky shoreline, and pretty much no weed areas. Couple little trickling streams from the mountains and a few real cool cliff areas and inlets.