Moose Trophy Overland Rally 2017

July 7, 6 trucks and 2 bikes headed out on what can only be described as prepared chaos.  The best plans were thwarted by roads that had changed drastically due to the late spring but the heavy run-off... one thing we could not change, but we were prepared for anything, and so we went in search of it.

The original mission of the Moose Trophy Overland Rally was to visit a few fire towers around the Okanagan area. The unpassable (for us) road conditions prevented that, but our mission to get out together and see some really cool things and explore the backroads of BC was a huge success.

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.

beaver lake, in white.

Monday was a holiday. So a few of us decided that the best way to celebrate remembrance day was to go and have a fire and cook hotdogs. there may also have been a gt racer involved.

the rec site.  rhymes with white.

We were tho only ones up there.  didn't have 1st tracks, but it was all good.

louie's truck and truck 2.

Lunch was buffalo smokies from the butcher in winfield, and truck-a-q sauce.  mmm mmmm  good.

a fj40 snow wheeling by the lake.

some cool frosty views.  the island we camp on is off to the left.  not sure how long the snow will last up there, but it looks like winter is officially here.

the guys and the fj40.

It had snowed all weekend, and it was no surprise that there was about 5 inches of snow up there.  slippery roads on the way up, but we all made it up and down all good. 

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....