A Canadian Hillbilly and his travels

A four hour drive for Patrick, in the tj, myself, and peter got us to radium. Clinton, in the Grey 3rd gen Toyota pickup, came in from cranbrook, Ryan, in the red 2nd gen, came from fernie, with Keenan and Nathan, in the green 1st gen, meeting him on the way in from Lethbridge and bob, with the jk, came in from Kelowna. Quite a bit of travel for this trail, but very worth it. We went to sleep in a pouring rain, but woke up to perfect weather.

 

Nice trips! I lived in Fernie for a fall/winter in 2000. Did a lot of exploring with my 92 pickup. Awesome area. Great fishing, hot springs, amazing views, lots of wildlife. Definitely the place to explore.

 

We made our way up the valley, making it past our previous stop point from June, then on to our previous stop point from several years ago. Some shovel work, some use of jack all’s to move a couple boulders, saw us progress up the valley.

 

Fernie and area are on my list for next summer!! I started some trips that area in the fall. I’ll be posting that trip in this thread.

 

Continuing on, we encountered a sweet little boulder section, that carved my drivers side a nice gouge.

 

If anyone wants to see the video of this run, check out @dirtgarage on youtube. he did a great job capturing it.

 

We made it to the head of the valley, the first vehicles in here in years. Next time I come here, I gotta bring a kayak or a paddle board.

 

After playing around and trying to find a mine that’s up here, we headed back down the valley, and toward the nights camp.

 

And the gouge I got in the drivers side of the truck from the boulders is in the first couple shots there.

 

It was such a perfect weekend weather wise.

 

We hit the end of the trail, and headed north, for the next nights spot.

 

We camped at the foot of a glacier. Beginning of August, and overnight temps hit a degree above freeze that night.

 

Camp was set up, supper made, a fire started, and we all enjoyed a few beers and a beauty sunset.

 

The next morning dawned clear, cold and beautiful above 8200’.

 

Damn dude, making me jealous

 

I strive to instil a desire to come wheeling with me in others! Come see these places, you’ll never want to leave!

 

We found snow. A lot of it

 

Im slightly more adverse to panel damage than you are

But I actually bought my truck in the Rockies (Colorado) and you're right, the mountains are a very awesome place!

 

Faced with a 75’ long snowdrift, up to 5’ deep in the deepest section we tackled, we did what any sane Canuck would do, in August. We pulled out the chainsaws and shovels and cut our way thru! Ryan, in his 2nd gen pickup was the first thru. Keenan followed. And the interco M16’s failed him, sliding him sideways towards the gully. A bit more shovelling, laying down a set of Tredpros, and hooking him to Ryan allowed for us to pull him thru. We shovelled for a bit more, then the rest of us made it thru.

 

Thanks for sharing awesome adventures.