a cruise with brian

saturday my buddy brian was back in town for a bit. no way i was going to let him leave before he rode shotgun on an adventure.

looking down to kelowna

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

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.

trout crossing on may 2-4 weekend

the KVR bridge over trout creek


Patrick and I decided to check out the princeton-summerland road this may long weekend. of course, we took the long way there and explored a bit. The princeton-summerland road also happens to cross the kettle valley railway a few times, and would have been a great bike ride, if my bike hadn't of been damaged in a bit of an accident (NOT my fault).


the campsite


The camp spot was right along a raging creak (trout creek presumably). The site was nothing incredible (it was also right along the road), but we hiked on the KVR, visited a random midnight rave i found out later was Whompstock, and had a great time. Next time, i'll make sure my bike is safe, and we'll have a go of it.



KVR


words of advise: watch out for conservation officers. they usually mean no harm, but they delay things a while.


a random dam we explored upon