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Deny

Deny

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Went out wheeling at the local trail, and pushed though to Stewart Lake. Got out early saturday, then Chris blew his rear end on the first big obsticale so we had to go back into town, Adam thought he had the parts, got back installed, and nope, he forgot they were from an the older broncos which had smaller axles, so back to town to pull a spare 3rd and back to the trail for install. Got a little farther and camped. Then next day no big problems pushed through to the lake. Drank a lot of beers, got a lot of sun, and pretty dusty. Good weekend of wheeling.
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Fixing rear end, then drinking well into the night. note this was when it is the darkest, gets dark for few hours, then at around 2:30 starts to get lighter again, so you know it's time to hit the hay.
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More wheelin pics
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Few more
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BC40 said:
Looks like a good time.

I see Adam fixed his winch solenoids.
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Nope, he bought a new winch.:hillbilly: Got some sort of deal on a new winch, has a 2 year warrenty, so we will see.
 
Saw the title and I thought you were talking about the trail/road from Mackenzie to Stuart Lake (Fort St. James). I've wanted to do that for some time but my meetings up there the last few years have always been too late in the year. Locals in Fort St. James either say it's a real tough road or a FSR super highway.

Looks like a good weekend. Sure beat yard work. :beer:
 
canucksafari said:
Saw the title and I thought you were talking about the trail/road from Mackenzie to Stuart Lake (Fort St. James). I've wanted to do that for some time but my meetings up there the last few years have always been too late in the year. Locals in Fort St. James either say it's a real tough road or a FSR super highway.
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Are you talking the Town Mackenzie? How the heck do you cross Wiliston lake? Mackenzie is on the east side of the lake, and Fort St. James is a far way from the west side of the lake no?
 
Yep, I am talking about the town of Mackenzie. Just went to google for look see. This New connector opens up opportunities in Northern British Columbia – Journal of Commerce hit answered my question about what will be the road condition in the future. This hit is a pdf map http://bcwildfire.ca/ftp/DJA/external/!publish/FSJMac%20Community%20Connector%20Road/Mapping_overview/Overview_20100104.pdf of the proposed road expansion route. I checked on Google Earth and there is a causeway across the South end of the lake.

When road is done, if I ever have to go North after Fort St. James, it could save some time and kms rather than going all the way back to PG and then North.

Still have yet to find time to explore the Germansen Landing road and offshoot trails. I hear there are some great fishing lakes up there. Maybe one year we should have a joint club run in the North?
 
canucksafari said:
Still have yet to find time to explore the Germansen Landing road and offshoot trails. I hear there are some great fishing lakes up there. Maybe one year we should have a joint club run in the North?
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We go to Tumbler Ridge quite often as it is pretty amazing there, and the CC are always welcome to come up if they want to do some technical wheeling, don't mind getting out a few times to shovel, winch, or chainsaw, and they don't call the cops on me again!:hillbilly:

Some old photos from there:
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canucksafari said:
Nice pics. I'd love to go there some time too. Maybe next year we could all head North for a few weeks. By then all the CC will have to have SPOT or a SAT Phone before leaving the pavement. ;)
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Yeah the girls at work are all pushing for the SPOT, and our alberta office swears by them. I have been reluctant to use it, just get a creepy feeling that some one is tracking every step of my way. I guess maybe when they bring out the new SPOT that is able to send texts, then I might be more inclined to get it.
 
Deny said:
Yeah the girls at work are all pushing for the SPOT,.
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:hhmm:

Deny said:
I have been reluctant to use it, just get a creepy feeling that some one is tracking every step of my way.
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That's why I'll never have one in my truck on my time/trips. The eastern european family upbringing makes me waaay too distrusting.

Tumbler looks nice, many trails in there?
 
BC40 said:
Tumbler looks nice, many trails in there?
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Yeah Tumbler is pretty amazing, in that it has a lot of old mining exploritory roads and logging roads that have been long forgotten (although mining and forestry are still around, but there are areas that go real deep into the mountains) Some trails are right grown in, but others have been kept somewhat open due to extensive quad use. Trails range from fairly simple (like the Old Kinoseo Falls road, which is a bunch of water crossings and minor washouts) to the insanely hard core or "next level" (onion lake trail which is best done in a fully locked truck and be prepared to wet your pants and put lots of effort to make it all the way to the lake (ie it is a hard go on a quad). Have heard of 3 trucks (2 of them have done two trips in there) to make it to the top of the mountain, but not the lake). Lot's of area still to explore down there though.
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Tumbler sound like 4x4 Mecca. Whenever I scan through the North on Google Earth I am amazed at the roads and trails to nowhere where you are probably unlikely to see another rig or human for hours or days.

Martin, I hear you on the Spot. Don't even like the tracking ability gov has with cell phones. The most I gave people when I was young and got my first 4x4 was a rough direction idea: eg south maybe up around red bluff. I also use to go alone as often as I went with friends in the 4x4 or the Skidoo. The only thing I had was a pretty useless CB in the truck and good basic survival gear. Its sort of like air bags and computers. Pretty quick you can have so much safety that you forget what it is really like to drive.

BTW, I don't care much now a days to keep up my shovel skills. :flipoff2:
 
jfc said:
Yup, bring a long handled shovel when you go wheelin with deny or you back will be sore using a small one, bring extras for passangers, your gona need em,
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You just came out like two times to go wheeling up here, sucks you picked the days we did all the shoveling;) But some times shoveling for 1/2 an hour is either a make it or turn around move. I choose make it.:hillbilly:
 
canucksafari said:
Tumbler sound like 4x4 Mecca. Whenever I scan through the North on Google Earth I am amazed at the roads and trails to nowhere where you are probably unlikely to see another rig or human for hours or days.

Martin, I hear you on the Spot. Don't even like the tracking ability gov has with cell phones. The most I gave people when I was young and got my first 4x4 was a rough direction idea: eg south maybe up around red bluff. I also use to go alone as often as I went with friends in the 4x4 or the Skidoo. The only thing I had was a pretty useless CB in the truck and good basic survival gear. Its sort of like air bags and computers. Pretty quick you can have so much safety that you forget what it is really like to drive.

BTW, I don't care much now a days to keep up my shovel skills. :flipoff2:
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I don't know about 4X4 Mecca, it doesn't have as many trails as down south, and a lot of them are really grown in, while most are fairly tame and interspearsed with the odd easy, cool, or hard obsticle. It is fairly quiet though, as we barely every see any trucks on the trail, but the odd quad we do run into, which they are always asking us how we got there.

I too am like Martin and parinoid about big brother watching, that is why I will stick to old school trucks until the gov pulls the damn thing out of my hands.
 
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