back to the cabin

it's august.  sure there are fire bans, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun.  in a sweet cabin, on a sweet lake, with awesome all around.  so thats what brian, wayne and i did.

kathleen mountain.

in my eternal quest for firetowers, i threw a dart at a map and it hit kathleen mountain.  so off louie and I go.

it's not far from summerland on roads that slowly get worse.  The views got better and better though.  I drew the most logical looking route from google earth and backroads Mapbook and stuck them on the garmin.  i don't think we made a wrong turn once.

the end of the drive.

Moose Trophy Overland Rally 2017

July 7, 6 trucks and 2 bikes headed out on what can only be described as prepared chaos.  The best plans were thwarted by roads that had changed drastically due to the late spring but the heavy run-off... one thing we could not change, but we were prepared for anything, and so we went in search of it.

The original mission of the Moose Trophy Overland Rally was to visit a few fire towers around the Okanagan area. The unpassable (for us) road conditions prevented that, but our mission to get out together and see some really cool things and explore the backroads of BC was a huge success.

okanagan mountain and divide lake.

Canada day we decided to hike up the mountain goat trail, into okanagan mountain park and spend the night at divide lake. i may have promised an easy 2-3 hour hike. i was right about the 2-3 hours. not about the easy. it's called the mountain goat trail for a reason. that is was 38 degrees in a burnt out mountain didn't keep us cool at all.

eating fish on a monday afternoon

I can't think of a better way to spend a monday than paddling on a sweet lake, catching fish, and eating them on an island on the way home.  that's what we did.  here are the pictures chris took.  that's one of his things.

i dig this shot.

up postil with a jeep.

So we made some new friends, and they brought a camera.  i did not, so all of these pictures and videos come from sam, james and their jeep.  i was there.  so was my truck.  my camera was not.

A spring (read 3rd winter) drive

Sunday it was snowing, but I had new tires.  called up nathan and off we went.