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.

remember to go adventuring

It's the middle of the week, how about some adventuring? Kris, ross and i hopped in our trucks for the first adventure together.  after a tour of some trails in the area, we ended up at a sweet place for a fire.  so we had one.

ross has a scope.  is that cheating?

lets go up this road.

so we decided to go up a road we had never been up before and try and find postil lake from the back door.  it was a sweet day trip with some awesome happenings.  some snow, some pellet guns some fire and some more.

free ford.  no battery, busted windows.  call 911 for more info

another day in the woods.

Met up with some of the usual gang for another adventure. It started off pulling a guy out of the ditch by the airport.  it was pretty funny and i ended up dragging him 100 yards through the ditch before he finally turned his wheels the right way.  his oil pan is probably still in the ditch.

norm laughing about the amusing pull

then we hit the gravel, or actually snow, and 2nd corner we come aross this sweet gto with a 455.  pretty cool.

tarps, campfires, truck 3 and bikes

 This weekend 4 of us loaded up bikes and camping gear in truck 3 and headed north for some camping and biking.  this was truck 3's maiden adventure, so it was important.

wood (thanks norm) and bikes and sitch.

a short drive and walk in the postil region

tom and i went for a walk. at postil. there is still lots of snow. we had a little off-trail explore and the snow was thigh deep. recon for summer camping will have to wait a bit longer. here are pictures.

forest trail

told you we were gonna get more wood this weekend

so, not that i need more wood, but i needed to run a saw in the bush and drive around in 4x4. we did just that. again.

back up to postil for the sawing part of the program.

working hard

Then back up to the cliff to burn some of it.  and shoot some guns.  and generally have a time.

sunday is for firewood

sunday was time for more firewood, so i met norm at the bottom of postil and up we went.

our usual firewood spot

a lot of the wood in the usual firewood spot had been burned.  not cut and burned at home, but burned on the spot.  not sure why the forestry compamies do this.  it they leave it there, it will all get cut up and brought home by someone.  probably me.

testing the beam machine

Friday my chainsaw mill came in. i promised kris i'd help him move saturday, and so the mill sat in the back of my truck. About 4:00 we are enjoying a post-moving beverage and decided "hey... screw the pouring rain, lets go try that thing now!" so we did.

We headed up postil rd a few kms to a place we knew there was some sweet wood just getting board. hahaha. board...

step 1.  screw a 2x4 to the top of the log

mounted 2x4 guide

another truck sunday to celebrate autumn

so its the first day of fall. how to commemorate it? how about 4x4ing up a sweet trail with kris, a chainsaw and a dog? off we went.

where we rung in autumn

saturday, home by noon... with firewood

 Saturday morning, Wes calles me for a firewood mission.  not many pictures, but it really was an epic trail.  lots of mud, bumper scraping and road deactivations.

We went up postil past the mud pits and onto some old road.  there was mud, and lots of it. 

wes's truck was supposed to be in the shot.  more than just the tires.

1st run of the year

Tuesday evening, 6:00. seems like the perfect time to ride postil. pulled the bikes out of the shed for the first time. they were ridden hard and put away wet so they needed a bit of love. loaded them into the truck and off i went. met some friends and we were off. we were ripping too fast to stop and take pictures on the way down, so there are none.

at the top

at the bottom

This is the start of another epic okanagan summer. you should come and ride.  or shuttle us, that would be ok too.

saturday in 4wd

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.

going postil wednesday

So Wednesday, Tom and I decide to hit up postil for some riding.  Tom's 1st time on this type of track and possibly this type of bike.  It was a blast.  Tom crashed.  Usually it's me doing the crashing.  He's ok.  

Looking down the run to the wall ride

 A big road gap

hey!! thats me

tom by the ski jump

bikes all loaded.

steak, peppers and potatoes etc make it all better.

It was a blast.  We'll do it again.  Just you wait and see.

biking, 4x4ing and firewood.

Saturday, I dusted off our bikes and Christine and I went for a little rip up on some trails on Quail Ridge. Felt good to pedal, but I hate breaking in my ass at the beginning of the season.

Sunday was firewood day. Tom and Rita and I went up Postil Rd for some wood. then we used the wood to cook some chicken and some potato/oinion packets that Tom and Rita brought. Delish...

We chose a dry sopt, but there were many spots still not dry. It was 26 degrees, so it felt mega-hot since it was the first really minty day of spring. I wished i had shorts.

toms and i both wished we had shorts. so muc, in fact, we sat in this snow to cool off. our asses got wet.

the repercussions of sitting in the snow. and the best way to dry off. it didn't take long in the heat.

on the way down, we went up. tried to get into bullman lake, but there was still too much snow for a stock truck full of firewood.

it was sweet. and we'll do it again next weekend. stay tuned....

a little saturday mission

so we went for a little drive with mike lau. Got stuck at the postil rec site. some guy in a trooper pulled us out. i gave him a beer. then we got stuck again. dug ourselves out.

after that humbling experience we took a little casual spin up postil to our favourite firewood spot and had a fire. good times as usual.


the tow strap still out. might need it again, so why bother putting it away?

the trail was pretty snowed over, so we played it really really safe and stopped earlier than usual. didn't want to do any more truck digging that day.

while we were up there, a 1969 mustang gt500 convertible drove by. can't believe we didn't have to pull it out.

more to come. i promise.

another firewood friday

not that i was short on wood, but it was friday, the 2nd day of holidays. donald and i went for firewood. here are the pics.

here you can see the elusive 1969 homelite xl-1 in its natural habitat. a rare site.

donald, the truck and the pile of wood. chipping away at it every weekend, it should be gone in 3 years or so.

the fire, donald and the axe. a sweet triple threat.


what the pictures don't show was that when we were about to leave, our 2 person party had turned into a 6 person party. 2 random trucks showed up. one full of dogs. one full of guns. after unleashing a few clips of doods sks assault rifle, we headed down. i will send the next 2 days splitting and stacking the wood and finding unique ways and places to burn it.

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.

got sidetracked on an adventure by another adventure!

So, mike lau and i were headed up to postil lake for a calm relaxing bbq. We sure didn't get too far when we ran into tyson and friend. They here having a little problem at the same spot as the log bridge problem i had a few posts back. we drove up and saw the o-so-familiar situation.

After he got out, we decided to meet at the mud pits for a short little rendezvous. No problem. Except the trail was no longer mud, it was an icy rutted mess. But we made it.

following dood on the way. had to stop for a tree

Then the "hey, why don't you guys come with us on this next trail?". Sure. lets go. What an epic trail. as usual, i had the smallest truck but the biggest sense of adventure. weird how those things go hand-in-hand. also how trips with tyson and damage to my truck also go hand-in-hand.

bumper bumping


some minor on the trail repair


how it's done


about this time, mike and i decided we could not commit to hiking 25 km out of the bush due to a totally destroyed truck, so we let the built trucks cross a mad ditch and we went the other way. up to postil lake for a nice mellow fire and some hotdogs. good times.

postil lake

hot dogs

mike and his bb gun, and a fire, and a 4runner, and awesomeness