Jack

[crushers]

Absolutly amazing, thanks for sharing! Looks like a nerving, but fun day of ice wheeling. How cold was it outside that day?

Thanks Eric,
it was actually quite warm, +5C
you should come out wheeling one time, fly out and i'll pick yah up at the airport and off we go...
cheers

 

[Diescipel]

Another great set of pics and descriptions Wayne, really good read, learned a lot. Love that BJ46--every time I think the rear of my 42 is a little small I'll think of that 46. All that ice makes me "Shiver", especially when you were in the "River..."

Where can you get one of those 100' extraction ropes? Are they pretty common and I can find one down here in Cali?

Oh and "woof!"

B

 

[PKP80]

Excellent write up, thanks for sharing. Looks like it was a real good time, nice pics.

Sam

 

[wesintl]

2nd the 46 being cool.. Sliding rear windows, swampers

 

[bj-46]

wayne, can u repost the ones that showed up as an error

nice wrightup, great pics.

 

[crushers]

thanks guys for the comments.
i am sorry but i do not see any pics with "error", mine all came up fine.
yes, that 46 is a sweet rig, nice small lift and tires.
the extraction rope was custom made here in Calgary at $2 a foot but worth every penny.
Hawke, the trails around here are diminishing steadily as the tree huggers are getting more and more grip on the trails. one day i expect them all to be closed and then they will move on up the east face...
i agree with some of the closures but i think extreme fines would work better than just shutting the land down.
more pics coming.
cheers

 

[crushers]

comment from a reader in Japan:

quote:
Wayne,

do relax?... for me, this is a kind of big adventure trip...
I've never seen this scene, great nature in our area.
No big mountaines, road, ice lake, etc....
As you knows, Most of 4X4 cars lives in japan has no experience used in
such a great nature lands, in her life....Except some 4X4 Freeks drives
every weekends...
I feel that All the land cruisers enjoy running and walking in muddy,
icy roads in Canada....
This might be better situations for Japanese Land Cruisers live in after
They finished working in japan as "City mover".

end quote.

i like his thinking...
cheers

 

[Hawke]

thanks guys for the comments.

Hawke, the trails around here are diminishing steadily as the tree huggers are getting more and more grip on the trails. one day i expect them all to be closed and then they will move on up the east face...
i agree with some of the closures but i think extreme fines would work better than just shutting the land down.
more pics coming.
cheers

It looks to me that you guys are mostly travelling on man made cut lines. Unless you get a bunch of irresponsible idiots leaving garbage or oil spills I can't see how driving on cut lines is environmentally damaging.

 

[crushers]

it is the ones that go out into the skag fields and root and tear huge trenches across them... the damage lasts forever...
this is why the area is getting slowly closed down. i can't really blame them but i would like to see the fines tried first. if a few lost their rigs over the damage then maybe more would wake up and listen... but i don't make the rules so such is life.
i guess this is why i am promoting our local River Shiver so much this year, it might be the last one...
cheers

 

[lucky]

That all looked like fun Wayne, wish I could of come, maybe next time.
I am thinking next time I will bring "Krusty" and try out the rusty green 42 with the locker.

Ryan

 

[crushers]

i will be going out almost every weekend from now till river shiver rerunning the trails we already ran as well as looking for some off shoots for extra runs or evening runs...
you are welcome to come along... just watch the RMLCA list for times and location...
cheers

 

[sandcruiser]

MasterPull.com has ropes like that. They work very well. We had one for a while but it was getting torn up by desert brush and we didn't have much room in the rig for extras... so we gave it to a friend who needed a tug rope.
I regret that now as they really are nice recovery tools.

Wayne: what size tires is Pascal running on that 60?

 

[crushers]

those are those ENS take off tires, 32" tall
i made a rope mount that hooks on to the headrest supports, it keeps the rope off the floor and helps keeps Cruiser in the back... okay not really but that was one of the purposes...

 

[spressomon]

Great pics and write up! I noticed only one rig with tire traction chains albeit on the rear only. The trail conditions you have shown look perfect application for 4 wheels worth of chains...

 

[Behemoth60]

It looks to me that you guys are mostly travelling on man made cut lines. Unless you get a bunch of irresponsible idiots leaving garbage or oil spills I can't see how driving on cut lines is environmentally damaging.

It's not the cut lines themselves that are the problem... it's the watershed. Many of these Eastern slope streams are spawning grounds for all sorts of fish, a few of them endangered. It's also the head waters for most of the drinking water for everyone East of the Rocky's, clear through to Manitoba, so water quality isa huge issue. Bottom line is not the cut lines, but where they cross streams and rivers and those crossings contribute to siltation of the water, and unnatural erosion of the banks. That's the problem.

Peter Straub

 

[Hawke]

It's not the cut lines themselves that are the problem... it's the watershed. Many of these Eastern slope streams are spawning grounds for all sorts of fish, a few of them endangered. It's also the head waters for most of the drinking water for everyone East of the Rocky's, clear through to Manitoba, so water quality isa huge issue. Bottom line is not the cut lines, but where they cross streams and rivers and those crossings contribute to siltation of the water, and unnatural erosion of the banks. That's the problem.

Peter Straub

That makes sense. Thanks.

 

[Tapage]

I'm So jelaous Wayne .. awesome trip .. !

 

[crushers]

thanks David, it was a lot of fun...
next report will be in 3 weeks...
cheers