the final adventure of truck 1, st. patricks day edition

it was a glorious day. snowing and sunny at the same time. a whole bunch of us; me, julie, tom, chad, ian, patrick and oscar decided to see how far we could get up oyama lake road. not so far it turns out. too much ice and snow, and not enough traction in the hyundi. it sure put up a good effort though.



we settled at a sweet spot after deciding we could go up no further. out came the responsible amount of beer and pellet gun. julie got a sweet fire going.



we met some crazies, like jordie. he was full of jokes. in fact, i think all he did for the hour he was there was tell jokes. i don't remember any of them, except the punch line for one was "OZINALL!!"

jordie rolls up in this thing

don't worry chad, i saved your beverage

ian

patrick showing us how it's done

tom and the gun

tom and saint patrick

we were plowing this short little trail that shortcut the switchback


and on one of the runs, this is how the truck got parked. after rolling once, the tree stopped it and the lone occupant from rolliny further. everyone was ok. the truck...not so much

still drives...

the way we'll remember the truck

It was kinda a downer way to end a stellar day, but stay tuned for the adventures of the inevitable truck 2!!

firewood fryday

turns out this friday was a firewood friday. Met ian and oscar and we headed up postil to a spot i knew. The bumper denting trail from a few weeks ago ends just off pstil. the road out from there is pretty good because of the logging activity. I knew there were tons of large slash piles around there, with sweet sweet wood, so we headed up in that direction.




this was our spot for the afternoon. parked by the road, lit a fire and spent the day eating smokies, drinking some beverages, and cutting firewood.


the big slash piles i was talking about. tons of mint wood all around.


le premiere etoile (the first star) goes to the 1969 homelite xl-1. best 25$ ever.


we piled wood all along the road and just picked it up on the way out. ian's truck 1/2 full. it was full by the end. so was my truck.

so one of the main results of this mission is now i have tons of wood. that means tons of fires. stay tuned to see how ryan and friends are gonna use all this wood.