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Adventure time this long weekend. A couple of weeks ago, I was invited by members of the Hummer Owners of BC to join them on a 2 day excursion along a well known BC 4x4 trail, known as the Whipsaw. I'd last driven the route about 20 years ago, and thought it would be great to join them, especially since the trail traverses some beautiful alpine parkland terrain, and has overnight camping at a pair of high country lakes, all of this in historic gold rush territory, as well as possible Sasquatch habitat. Since the organizer of the outing had to work Friday night, we didn't set off till noon Saturday, after meeting at the local Cabelas parking lot. Less than an hour into the trip, that famous "Murphy" interrupted things. The lead Hummer pulled over at an off ramp and stopped on the shoulder, so our 3 vehicle convoy halted to diagnose the loss of charge that prompted the stop. A 2 week old alternator had seized, throwing the serpentine belt off. While the driver, Chris, started to remove the offending part, the second H1 driver, Ken, headed back to the nearest town with an open parts store to pick up a replacement. The old one was out by the time he returned, and a quick look showed that it was not going to fit. This time Ken piled into my H3 with both the bad unit and the wrong replacement, and we headed back to the store, hoping they had an actual match, which they thankfully did. Back to the parked H1, and the correct unit was installed in about 20 minutes, and we were rolling again, after a 2 and a half hour delay! We made good time the rest of the way, reaching our turn off to the trail an hour and a bit later, 100 km into the Cascade Mountains. As we were airing down tires for the run up the forestry road to the trailhead, a fire crewman pulled up and informed us that a nearby days old fire that had been burning away from our target area had changed direction that morning, and made access to the trail and lakes too dangerous to travel. Change of plans. We opted to head further east, to another trail that headed into high country, though not as scenic or challenging as our first choice. We drove on, in heavily smoke laden skies, to our alternate, and had camp set up by dark. No campfire, of course, since there's been a total ban for more than a month, due to our extreme hot weather and lack of rain for more than 6 weeks. I awoke at 5:30 AM to the sound of rain on my tent fly, so breakfast and breaking camp was a soggy affair. Now we chose to go explore an 1885 era gold rush townsite in the area, which was interesting, as the BC Parks Service has set up a self guided walking tour through the site, with explanatory signs telling t he story of the ruins, and of some of the gold rush characters involved in the towns history. With the wet weather, and the heavy pall of smoke everywhere in there area, we called it a day after lunch, and headed back home, with plans to return to our original target in a months time. My tent's drying in the underground parking, and I'm looking forward to trying for the target again, as well as meeting up with my new friend, Vinny, the rescue pit bull.

Totally agree!

You're right about Chris' H1, it makes my H3 look tiny, and even dwarfs the stock tan coloured H1. He's done a lot of the work himself, fabbing up the roof rack and bumpers. It has a 6" lift and 42" tires. It looks like we'll have a couple more Hummers along for the Labour Day outing. Hopefully all the wildfires will be over by then. It's been a terrible year for fires here in BC, with over 1000 already, with 250 still burning, and more than 500,000 hectares burnt, that's about 500 sq.miles, and includes 1 town that was totally destroyed. You can see the smokey skies in the photos, and in some places it was thick enough to reduce visibility to under 200 yards.

I am sorry for the absolute misery your friends are going through. That’s the uniquely heartbreaking quality of these sorts of cases…at the core of each case, there’s a family that might never see their loved one again. Much different than the other topics that are usually discussed like Bigfoot sightings or UFOs.

I should point out that I never ever put any technology in my main area....after many years of putting out game cameras, it's obvious that animals know these devices are there, so why not the big guy. I posted these 2 pics several years ago, and show what the big guy does when he finds these, IMO. First pic shows what appears to be a very large hairy forearm reaching around the tree from behind, and the next pic shows the game-cam on it's way to the ground, and where I found it.

More rain, so nice to still be having the wet stuff in August! Left some apples in one of my gift areas, gone the next day. When animals get after these first, there's always some residual pieces scattered around the area, not even a spec anywhere this time, so my hairy friends evidently found these first. The Deer skull had been left for me a few years back as a gift, so I like sticking the apples on the antlers real good and place up in a tree. By doing it this way, the Racoons and other animals that might get them first always leave pieces around the area as they chew them off, the hairyman likes to grab the antlers wedged in the tree fork, and pulls apples off.

Dang! Why didn't I think of that? Sounds good!

That's too bad about the late start, hiccup on Saturday, and eventual rain. It's life and we all take bits of pieces of pleasure whenever we can. It's a good idea to have like-minded people getting together for fun. The lead Hummer that broke down is one serious-looking unit. I bet he has a lot of money invested in it. I can only imagine the problems if that alternator had seized when you were deep into the backwoods. Hopefully next month will be a little more fun for you and the group.

Welcome to the BFF, 912Dawg, rdo, LordMayhem25, Saquatcher, Bigdawg148, and MeaCulpa!!! Enjoy the forums and ask if you have questions.

I'm positive I'm correct, call it what will, believe what you want, you will eventually realize I'm always right ......carry on!!

It is Bart......pretty sure he caught a bird/large bug flying by (I know it was at night} the figure was most likely Justin getting up to take a piss, so yes critters and people move around at night.

I agree. That is the way I have always used it. Just like "deer".

I'm no authority, but I believe "Bigfoot" is both singular and plural.

My understanding is that it has turn to a recovery operation for everyone but the immediate family. They are still holding out hope. Looking at the area on GE, it does not appear to be a "rough" area where one could fall into the river easily, or at least around the beaches. The reports said they recovered personal items on the beach so perhaps they were laying out there getting some sun. Perhaps one or the other waded out too far and started heading downstream. The other jumped in and was swept away too. I would like to know the state of the river that day. From the pictures, it does not appear to be flowing that fast, at least there are no discernable rapids or visible in the beach areas of the rest stop. It is hard to tell how deep it is, but some of the areas do look like they would be over the head of most folks (or at least you cannot see the bottom from the images). I am unsure of what her swimming capabilities were, but it appears that one could swim to the bank fairly easy as the river is not that wide. And I would think a dog would be able to to as well. You might be a bit downstream, but reaching the bank should not be that difficult if you can swim. She was always fairly athletic, so I would be very surprised if she could not swim somewhat. If anyone has specific information about that area, I would love to hear it. Rebekah dearly loved the dog and would not go anywhere without him. I suspect the feeling was mutual. If there was some sort of foul play involved, which at this time there is no evidence of, the dog would have protected her with his life. So I cannot see someone attacking her and getting away without serious, serious damage. And I cannot see a person overcoming that breed of dog single-handedly. Knowing Rebekah, Cerberus was very well trained. Sadly, we will probably never know what actually happened. I just hope they find her quickly so the family can have closure.

This one is personal. We know the family and the girl in question. Mom still has hope, but that is what parents do. https://www.kpax.com/news/western-montana-news/mother-looking-for-help-in-finding-woman-last-seen-in-mineral-county https://www.krtv.com/news/montana-and-regional-news/search-for-missing-woman-in-mineral-county-continues-dog-found-deceased They also have a GoFundMe page to help with the expenses of traveling to MT and searching. By the way, not saying anything weird happened with this, just that it happened and at this point, the victim is still missing.