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. 

twin lakes- aug long weekend

Twin Lakes, just north of Cherryville, has been on the adventure radar for a while. We (Tom, Partick, and I) decided that this would be the time to do it. I picked up the truck on Friday from a mechanic who said he couldn't fix it, tweaked the clutch myself, and we crossed our fingers. an hour from pave,ent and cell service is not the best place to have your truck crap out.

We picked up patrick at 2... a little later than we wanted to leave, but as the saying goes, better late than never. It was a 2 hour drive to the trail head from pat's in Vernon, with the last hour being forestry roads.  We got to the trail at about 4:30 and wasted no time getting moving.

The trail climbed steeply for the first hour.  really steeply.  Then we reached the alpine meadows.

the view north from the 1st meadow

more meadow views

pretty sweet.  i want to go there too.

soon the top was in sight, and what a sight.  there is the mark berger traverse trail.  a 3 day treck along the ridges.  it starts at the same trailhead we used, but keeps on going.

ridges headed south

must be getting close now

the last meadow

pretty sweet vistas

Soon we left the meadows andinto more rocky terrain.  We followed the contours of the ridge and began to see snow fields around us, even though it was 25 degrees.

tom heading through the rock fields

Then, there were the lakes below us.snow and sun and mountains and awesome views of everything.

finally we can see the lakes

this 71 maverick somehow beat us there?

Unfortunately,we couldn't stay much longer.  it was getting dark and we still needed to get back down and find somewhere to camp.  Next time we'll bring our tents.

time to head back down.

patrick heading up from the lakes.

tom and patrick crossing a snow patch

these things were everywhere in the meadows.

We had some sweet views going down.  you don't always see what's behind you until you change directions.

It was pretty dark when we finally decided to set up camp. like "can you set up your tent in the dark" kind of dark. we found a clearing with firewood close by, cooked some food and passed right out. this was what we saw in the morning.

our "camp spot"

The next day we spent at a forestry site near cherryville. There were people, but not too many. We spent the day swimming and drinking beer and eating. I took my phone and camera for a swim as well. they didn't like it.

patrick showing us how to count to 2 in french

shuswap river

Such an epic trip. So much more to see in the area too. We'll be back, earlier in the day and ready to camp in the alpine. You should come. Thanks to tom for some of the great pics.

a weekend of 1sts

Truck 2 has been waiting for an adventure for a week or so now. Saturday was the day. Tom came over and i swapped the tires from truck 1 while he changed his oil. it was raining. we got wet.

the original plan was to go have a fire and cut some wood, but the rain turned the plan into "go for a random cruise around"

we did. went up postil to the usual firewood area. it was slushy and wet, so we explored some of the trails. a few new ones too.

we soon got to postil lake which was still very frozen over. it was like someone turned winter on at about 1200m.



there were drifts as tall as tom

and we found a sweet mini trail on the way down

It was a very successful and safe first adventure for truck 2.

CHAPTER 2: which i have entitled "THE NEXT DAY"
in which Christine and Ryan go for a canoe

The title of chapter 2 pretty much says it all.

I put the canoe on the top of truck 2 (here-on in referred to as "the truck") and we went to a small beach off the spit of land separating wood lake and Kal lake.

Then we paddled it. First outing this year.

The 2 lakes felt weirdly different. Wood lake felt big and dark

then there was a little channel connecting the lakes. trailers lined one side and it felt like canoeing through 15 peoples' back yard.

then into Kal lake. calmer and greener. it always looks like a tropical lake from the highway. it felt a lot smaller because we stayed along the shore and explored the shoreline

we landed the canoe in a beach for an unnecessary portage, but we did it since before our 7 day trip on the bowron lakes in june, we thought a little practice might be in order.

the fruit tree was staring to bloom and we walked around the beach and ate some pretzels.

a very solid weekend. 1st truck adventure and 1st canoe. good start to the spring adventures.