What started off as 5 or 6 of us heading out to get firewood turned into james, his girlfriend christine, and I heading out to cook smokies and get stuck. everyone else bailed on the adventure. we were packed and ready, so we went anyway.
which way? was often the question
We headed up farmers and bata towards james lake. there were tracks from a few weeks ago, but we got to break in the fresh snow. good times. the snow got pretty deep and groovy, but we did well. 4wd all the way.
fresh snow for us.
james's turn to lead.
we kept following this trail until we got to this water crossing. it was 14 degrees in town, and sunny and about 8 or 9 in the mountains. there was lots of snow, but also lots of water.
the small hole
the big hole
after james had a run at it, got stuck and then the toyota pulled out the jeep, we decided this was the turn around spot. we got a fire going, and ate some dogs. Some other guys in big jeeps came by while we were setting up, so we watched them get stuck in the hole too. i didn't feel so bad that we couldn't make it through after i saw jeeps with 40 inch tires not make it.
Here is james having a go at the hole.
eating sausage. christine got the fire going sweetly.
time to go down
The drive down was sweet as well. no pulling or getting stuck, just window open sunny snow driving. one of my favourite kinds of driving.
from postil rd. okanagan lake
So the day was not as originally planned, but pretty awesome anyway. can't wait for tomorrow's adventure.
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