we go winter dirt camping, again.

Mary was back from school. Kris wasn't working, and i could get away for a night and wayne was in.  lets go winter dirt camping again.  dirty snow camping?  whatever.  Norm and sonja came with us for the day and we headed to one of our favorite lakes.  of course it was frozen and there was tons of snow.

following sonja and rocksteady.

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?

an adventure to a very cool place

During my internetting, a occasioanlly came across a place called stocks meadow.  it looked cool, so kris and i decided to see for ourselves.

IMPORTANT!!! This is private property.  many people choose not to believe that or to disregard exactly what that means.  Bad karma will come to the disregarders.  I found out who owns it, called him up and explained that we just wanted to adventure time to it.  he said ok.  if you want to go here, do that too.  or bad karma to you.

Kris and i hopped in the truck and off we went.  Not gonna say much about exactly where this place is, but we could drive to it and it wasn't far away.

We pulled in an were immediately awenomified.  this place was cool.  it still is cool, but definitely not as cool as it was 20 years ago when it was in action.  apparently about 25 people all lived here.  lots of activity.  judging by some of the buildings, they also had a LSD tree growing somewhere.

told you it was crazy

aberdeen lake

sunday. time for a mission.  louie, kris, norm and i headed in the direction of aberdeen lake.  a place we had passed a few times but never really explored.  also, louie got a new pellet gun and we needed somewhere cool to shoot it.

target acquired. i'm too close for missiles and switching to guns

return to pinnacle lake

as a mad send off for mary, who was certainly one of the gang, the four of us decided to hike to pinnacle lake.  it was also kinda a send off to summer and a chance to do some awesome.

the 4 awesomers

so mary, kris, louie and i piled into louies truck and headed past cherryville and to the trailhead for the 7 km-ish hike to pinnacle lake.  these are their stories...

hidden lake is no longer hidden to us. what a mission though.

Can louie and i find hidden lake on the 2nd attempt. spoiler alert: yes.

We had tried previously with kris and mary and, although we had an awesome time, we it remained hidden.  off to try again.

The road got crazy pretty quickly.  4x4 type of crazy.  we were kinda in the middle of nowhere, so it's a good thing truck 3 is so awesome.

the good part of the road.

another drive with no camera

Just a few pictures from a drive with norm et all.  We headed up postil, crossed over to doreen lake, and then down past beaver lake.  here is a map.

turned off the gps at doreen lake, hence the weird line top middle