Epic adventures here in BC Canada

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psychedelic beetle. @Twoody88 may or may not have gotten the beetle extremely "lifted up into the clouds man.." by blowing some BC's best plant smoke at it .



Jungle Jim scouting a "path"


spot the "trailhead" on the left. Take several steps off the FSR main trunkline and you'll never be found.

 

Y’all gots some bada** bush there..thick and hard to move in. Same here, but we got snakes n hogs instead of cats n bears. Oh, and we got ticks too. Lots n lots of em. ( I’d send you some but customs would not like that. Not one tiny little bit!)

 

oh trust me we got ticks up here too. Not as bad but they are here. Same with rattlesnakes in BC's desert regions.

we also have Sasquatch, hillbillies......

 

More photos, random.

We started the day with a hike up a meandering dirt bike trail, thru the many logging cutblocks and replant areas. Followed by a bushwack thru thick undergrowth in the replant areas. Headed back to the truck , back down the FSR, onto the Hwy thru the Fraser Canyon and up another, closed to the public (due to the wildfires) FSR.

We checked in at the Security checkpoint, the FireWatch truck was waved thru instantly.

Headed up 15 KM's on the main trunkline, stopping at a creek ravine that this truck won't make it. found a campfire, checked it with the hands to see if it out completely (fire ban in effect). Headed down several other Billy goat roads on foot , before heading down to the highway again.

We headed up another major FSR (hundreds of KM's long , with thousands of spur roads into the logging blocks). Checked out the views, scouted for future camping spots, took note of the large bear scat piles everywhere and headed back out. But not before heading down an old well compacted side road that goes for several KM's above Boston Bar. Then we headed back to the city and cold Reebs.

 

Teaser pics..

 

^^^think non sexy thoughts , think non sexy thoughts....

 

A song (by MC Hammer) comes to mind.

 

So basically, I drove to pick up Brother @Twoody88 , then we drove thru Richmond, Vancouver, North & West Vancouver, up the Sea To Sky thru Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, to the Duffy Lake Road (and Duffy Lake itself). My plan was to show Bro the logjam at the end of the lake, cross it and go bushwhacking.

but we got to the logjam, and there was no parking due to all the instagrammer crowds taking selfies.

so we aborted that idea and carried on to the next FSR off the highway. Exchanged greetings with the Highways Maintenance crews and headed up the FSR. Parked and rucked up the fireweed flower covered cut block. A hard physical exertion in 35 deg C dry heat.

Found a monstrous, huge, massive grizzly bear poop site. They are feeding very well on berries this year.

hiked further back onto the main trunkline and walked back down several KM's to the truck.
Carried on to several very well maintained provincial Rec Camp sites. Checked them out for a future camping trip with @Twoody88 's Lady and Daughter.

Crossed the highway and hit another FSR and started climbing. Switchback after switchback after switchback, 20% grade industrial forest service road. I'm glad I run Redline full synthetic oil, plus gear oil, transmission oil, and power steering fluid in my truck. Temps were pushing 38 Deg C , under the hood was pushing 80 deg C while climbing in first gear.

I'm not saying we stopped to roll boulders down a 3 km long debris chute with a 75 % slope , but we stopped and rolled giant boulders. @Twoody88 took out a massive dead fir tree , it was insane! His boulder blew the base of the dry dead tree into smithereens .

We carried on up and up and up and up , until we reached the peak of the mountain. Due to fuel levels in the truck, despite the spare fuel in the back, we decided to play it safe and head back down to the Highway and head towards Lillooet. Temps got hotter, the mountains got larger , as we approached Lillooet.

more trip report coming, including an incident involving a man impersonating a RCMP Officer. As well, a situation involving a young First Nations female, on the highway, highlighting just how dangerous BC's roads are , and how vulnerable First Nations women are in this country.

 

Drove into Lillooet, then further on towards Lytton.

30 tents set up at the Lytton grass airfield, plus a SAR helicopter , plus a field kitchen , and on site security to watch the SAR teams tents / gear. No idea what was going on, other than neon orange signs erected on the highway stating "Emergency Incident"

We drove further back down Hwy 1 thru Lytton. Temps pushing 38 deg C. Under hood temps pushing 85 deg C . Really worked that Redline synthetic Ester 10W40 oil hard, as well as the other synthetic oils (rear diff, transmission oil, power steering, wheel / u joint grease).

@Twoody88 was gassed right out. The heat, the dry air, lack of proper sleep was doing a number on him. I pushed water / electrolytes on him but he knows his hydration needs. Still didn't stop me from pushing more hydration / electrolytes.

bombing down the highway at 100 KM's/hour , suddenly braked hard. A young First Nations girl, maybe 18 to 20 at most, wearing skimpy clothing and staggering on the actual highway. I would have given her a ride to the Reserve, but she was only a few minutes from it. Sad thing is, this was such a crime of opportunity for a predator or serial killer. Often the First Nations girls and women will willingly get a complete strangers vehicle here, for the ride (they have to often walk everywhere). Predators take advantage of this. Sadly a lot of truckers in BC take advantage of this too, offering rides to the next town , village, reserve, etc , for sex.

We carried on in the heat, finally reaching the Alexandra Bridge Park in the Fraser Canyon.

I passed a large Dodge Ram diesel with camper , stuck behind a slow moving truck with tow behind camper .
An ambulance was coming Code 3 the opposite direction. I passed the pickup trucks and the driver of the truck with trailer lost his sh** on us. Started flashing his headlights for over 15 kms's , speeding up and tailgating us. We stopped at the temporary bridge (alternating traffic flow, single lane) and the driver jumped out of his truck, slammed his door, ran up to my door. "I'm a RCMP Officer - you passed me when you should have stopped for the ambulance!!!! , then you flipped me off!!" (@Twoody88 had waved at the old man during the several hundred high beam flashes incident)

first of all, in BC , if your on the opposite side of a multi lane (in this 4 lanes) highway as an oncoming emergency vehicle is approaching, you do not need to stop , you pull to the right lane , slow down and keep going. Only if the road is blocked do you pull off the highway and stop.

Second, I knew from the get go the angry man was not an RCMP Officer or any sort of LEO.
They are taught literally in their first week of basic training, that when they approach a vehicle during a traffic stop , they will touch the drivers side taillight and the vehicle roof with their fingertip , to leave a fingerprint. It's so ingrained in their muscle memory , that retired RCMP officers do it out of habit even decades after they leave the Force.

The angry idiot did not do this, nor did he show his shield. He got flustered when @Twoody88 called him out on his actions back on the highway. Not to mention the overwhelming odour of hard liquor on his breath. I literally sat there looking at him, without saying a word. Had my right hand cross my chest and by the truck door, where my kukri was. A real police officer would have gotten very suspicious about where my hands where. The angry idiot didn't even clue in that I was armed. Not a police officer.

The signal light for the temp bridge changed and I drove off, the "Police Officer" screaming "your gonna hear from the RCMP you asshole" and he punched my side door, ran back to his truck and roared up behind me.

Guess all that high speed driving with his trailer burned his fuel pretty quick , he pulled off at the next fuel station......


it was so laughable , his behaviour , his claiming to be a RCMP Officer. I'll stop and talk to any RCMP or Police when directed to, but not for drunken old angry men claiming to be RCMP. In fact, I'll be contacting Hope BC RCMP soon with a report on the incident. Old angry drunk dude strikes me as predator type if he's claiming to be a RCMP Officer.... I keep thinking back to the young First Nations girls / teens / women that have been sexually assaulted, raped, kidnapped, & murdered.

We carried on back to home, a journey of over 650 KM's round trip.


The cold beer at home was awesome.

Good Times!

 

He was really salty. His wife Karen must have left him recently.

 

Teaser Pics

 

My trip today was a recon trip to the infamous Charles Creek Debris Flow basin on the Sea To Sky Highway here in BC Canada.

this debris flow barrier is an absolutely incredible engineering masterpiece. I'd like to buy the engineers and crews that built this monstrous debris flow barrier beers one day.

One of the largest of its kind in the world. 500' tall (325' of that buried into the mountain , and still further reinforced with 200' long x 6" thick steel anchor rods even deeper into the bedrock). It's about 200' wide , and at its base, it's over 500' . Think of a triangle made of rebar reinforced concrete, put onto a mountain side with a 35 % grade slope , in front of a 100' wide little innocent creek.....

Except that little creek is fed by two steep mountain gullies, fed by multiple other creeks, plus debris flows and landslides. The debris flow basin barrier is made of millions of tonnes of concrete , rebar.

It protects the little tiny village below the Hwy 99, but there are still evacuations of the local residents done by the Province & RCMP & other emergency services during high stream flow / debris flow incidents.

There is so much rock , boulders, garage sized boulders, fines, gravels swept down into this basin yearly , that there is a pit (Brunswick Pit) further west on the Sea To Sky, that processes this debris flow every year and turns it into aggregates for commercial usage.

 

Parked the truck , threw the webbing on and headed up the gated access road off the highway.

stopped at the debris flow barrier. Marvelling at the sheer size of it. Also almost stepped on a massive 3/4" thick snake, unsure of species.