up towards the kettle valley

beauty of a sunday.  time to go.  Louie, Mary, Kris and I hopped in some trucks and headed up towards kettle valley.  hoping to get to the KVR through the back door.

New Year for New adventures

i know yesterday i was literally sitting on a beach getting a tan, but now it's time to get back to the reality of canada. Can't let a bit of snow stop me. We were going to go icefishing, but a lack of volunteers and a bit of a late start. better late than never.

i met up with louie and we hopped in my truck, heading up to chute late.

our 1st stop was at the top of gillard on the KVR. we whole valley was covered in cloud, and we were well above it. looked like a valley full with snow. pretty cool.

panorama of the cloudy valley

four by fogging

saturday was time for kris to take out his sidekick to get in adventured up.  him and steve were inside, and mike rode with me in truck 2.

it was really really foggy.  we started up the back way to chute lake around 1.

going up in the fog

a 3 wheeled sunday

Sunday afternoon. Mike got 2 trikes ripping. since he can only drive 1 at a time, i took one for the team and hopped on the 2nd one.

heading up gillard rd.

of course i'm smiling.  couldn't stop in fact.

We ripped up gillard rd and hit the trails right away.  lots of getting stuck, followed by getting unstuck.

on the kvr

We got to the top of the road and onto the kvr.  the tracks were not made by trikes, and staying pointed straight was a fun challange.

veiw from the seat

at the top.  looking over kelowna

At the top we celebrated the awesomeness by standing.  pretty sweet.

getting dark, time to head back :(

can't wait for spring to get really muddy.  was your sunday this awesome?

chute lake ice fishing and fire

friday i finished work at noon. i earned it after putting in 2 long days on wednesday and thursday. I picked up mike and we headed up to chute lake to meet ian and jesse. we (read "i")thought it might be cool to try the same route up as we took on the toy run in november. we had 1st track most of the way up.


until here. we just could not get up the steep hill in 18 inches of freshish snow. the only tracks we made past here were boot tracks.

so, we turned around, went back down and then went up gillard FSR. not too bad. then along the KVR to chute late, where jesse and ian and 3 dogs were already waiting for us. so was a fire.


we made some hole in the ice and promptly went back to the fire, checking on our hooks hourly.

it was a great trip. even though, on the way out i got stuck in a snowy ditch and, in the process of getting pulled out by ian, 1/2 tore off the front bumper, 3/4 tore off the passanger side mirror, and 100% dented the front fender. pics of that to follow.

and no, we didn't catch any fish.

toy run

so, tom and i met early saturday morning for the 4x4 toy run. i brought starwars lego and hotwheels to donate.

We ripped it up just past chute lake, it was awesome. there were almost 70 trucks and more than 100 people. the photos speak more than drunken blogging even can.

a sweet 2wd dune buggy we followed up for a bit. no windows















some mad ass willy's we followed up



















this was the sketchy way up. we took the other sketchy way up.





















the pallet truck. every trip should have one










the parrot in the pallet truck












group photo












some sweet wheeling near the top... the "difficult route"









how to plug a tire in a pinch. we passed these guys straighening their bead lock ring on a rock, with another rock














some shots from the way down

















can't wait for next year. reserve your seat in my truck now.