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My trip out today was a solo run, as my son's lady friend had other plans for him, and the other guys in my group were also all otherwise occupied, as well as another member on this board who PMed me, but we couldn't make our schedules mesh. It was a beautiful blue sky day, but we still have the very stiff winds and cold temps, so my treks away from the car were fairly short. I took one of my favourite side trails off the main logging road, and about 4 km in, found a group of guys with an impromptu range set up, and a nice array of guns and optics, so I stopped and chatted for a while, but didn't join in the target shooting, as I had left the house with my rifle, and my ammo box stayed on the bench by the door, where I had forgotten it! Getting old has its moments for me !! My next turn off was to the small lake that I had mentioned in my post on page 34, so that I could take another pic of the spot where some of you had seen a blobsquatch in one of my photos. I duplicated the same shot today, and can confirm that the same dark blob is still in the same position, so it's a stump, or a VERY patient sasquatch. Again, there was a family, mom, dad, and 3 teens, with a target set up for .22 plinking. They finished a couple of 5 round clips, then packed up so I could continue my walk past them to the pond area. Back on the main logging road, I found the next few side valleys gated, including one that I had gone into for the first time in years, on my last trip out with my son (P 34). I did find another road near there, up another creek valley, that had been locked in the past, but was open today, so I ventured up it, only to find a 14" dia. deadfall across it at the 2km marker. I got out my 18" Homelite chainsaw, and struggled with it for 20 minutes without getting it started. I think I over primed it, as when I got home and took it into the communal workshop in my building, it fired right up on the 3rd pull. ARGHHHH My only wildlife sighting was a skinny looking grouse, that flushed off the road before I could get my camera on it. Still a nice day to be out in the timber, with fresh air and soul satisfying scenery. In order of appearance: Waterfall almost entirely frozen View down a side trail, looking west across the lake A stretch of the logging road used as a small aircraft runway for a logging camp The small lake I showed on p.34, with the same evergreen and dark blob on the far side Mountains down the lake to the north More of the mountains to the north Icicles on a cliff face. One of the gated roads Deadfall across the trail Mt Cheam from the schoolyard in the village of Aggissiz at sunset on the way home. .

Here is a picture taken two years ago in late Summer. It's the first place I will be going this Spring to retrieve (hopefully) a trail cam left over the winter and to scout around. It's the only place I've ever hiked or backpacked to that gives me the uneasy feeling I'm being watched. That feeling is with me whenever I'm here. There have been several sightings in this very area by friends/colleagues. Last year, on an overnight I was on, there was a tree fall that was loud. It's the fifth time that has happened in this area and it's always at night. For decades, I've hiked and stayed overnight in the woods and have never heard a tree fall other than this area. It's one of my two honey holes where I'll be venturing deeper into this year and focusing my time.

You cower at home, I'll go out.

I would not go on a BFRO expedition. But to quote John Wayne..... “A man oughta do what he thinks is right.”

"Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!"

If you paid 300 bucks to go out camping plus had to supply your own food and gear and cover your own transportation when you could have done the same thing on your own...?