BC witness Posted September 25 Author Share Posted September 25 Nice Steelie and Chinook, great catches. They're running in the local rivers here in BC as well. I haven't done any fishing since I sold my boat about 30 years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted September 26 Admin Share Posted September 26 3 hours ago, BC witness said: Nice Steelie and Chinook, great catches. They're running in the local rivers here in BC as well. I haven't done any fishing since I sold my boat about 30 years ago. Bout time you went again! Hire a guide and go for the day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorCalWitness Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 On 9/25/2024 at 4:04 PM, norseman said: My cousins Chinook. Your three cousins have the surname Chinook? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted September 30 Admin Share Posted September 30 1 hour ago, NorCalWitness said: Your three cousins have the surname Chinook? Yes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BC witness Posted October 1 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 1 Another long weekend, another adventure. Sep. 30 is Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, in recognition of our indigenous peoples' struggles during our past colonial period. I invited cmknight and his lovely wife Sharon to join my daughter Andrea and I on a day trip into the Hunter Creek watershed, on the south side of the Fraser River near Hope. They had never been there before, so I hoped to find a spot for Sharon to hunt mushrooms, one of her hobbies. It was a nice mild fall day, mostly sunny until late afternoon, when some grey overcast rolled in from the ocean. After a few failed attempts to find the right turnoff, as I hadn't been there in a few years, I got my Gaia maps pulled up on the carplay screen, and we got to the right starting point. The road is very steep and loose gravel/rocks, so we shifted our rigs into low range, and kept them that way till we returned to pavement in the late afternoon. We explored all of the branches of the old road system, to the limits that our trucks would allow. The first branch, up the West Fork, was uneventful, ending at a small hydro dam and a view of the snow covered ridge to our west. The next branch, off the West Fork up a ridge to the south, was steep and loose, with some mild cross ditching, but blocked by a recent rockfall before the end, forcing a twelve point turnaround to get back down. Sharon found a few young puffball mushrooms along here, edible, but nothing to get excited about. Back down at the mainline trail we found a nice wide area to haul out the camp chairs and have some lunch, while Sharon scaled a steep bank to get into the pines above to hunt Chantrelles, but with no success. After snacks, we continued along the old mainline, which again rises steeply from the creek, up the ridge on the east side. We eventually reached the end of this route, where it became too narrow and overgrown to continue, so another multi-point turn around got us going back down, after a pause for some photos of the views of the peaks to the s/w and the West Fork valley, now far below. We tried one more branch off this road on the descent, heading up another ridge to the south, but cm, with a bit less clearance under his longer wheelbase Ram, was crunching his step bars in the deeper cross ditching, so we called it a day, and slowly worked our way back down the mountain to pavement, reaching there about 5PM. Although we saw no large wildlife, no tracks, and only a few old bear scat piles, we had a very nice day out there, and headed home happy. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 2 Admin Share Posted October 2 Great to see BFF members out on the trail!👍👍👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 3 Admin Share Posted October 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 3 Admin Share Posted October 3 Explored a piece of state ground and some timber ground behind a locked gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigantor Posted October 3 Admin Share Posted October 3 1 hour ago, norseman said: You're riding bikes now? I thought you were too old for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 3 Admin Share Posted October 3 25 minutes ago, gigantor said: You're riding bikes now? I thought you were too old for that Too old to pack mules. So now I am a yuppie!🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwakwe Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 On 10/1/2024 at 2:00 AM, BC witness said: Another long weekend, another adventure. Sep. 30 is Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, in recognition of our indigenous peoples' struggles during our past colonial period. Sounds, and looks like a great outing. Thanks for the report. Beautiful country! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 7 Admin Share Posted October 7 Checked out my best friends sisters place in Mullan Idaho. They then took us on a cool jeep ride in the mountains. Saw a bull moose and mule deer. We also did some metal detecting and found a miners lamp, drill bit and a broken knife. We also checked out a mutual friends cabin on a old mining claim. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC witness Posted October 7 Author Share Posted October 7 My kind of country! I love the mountains. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 7 Admin Share Posted October 7 7 minutes ago, BC witness said: My kind of country! I love the mountains. Like the eighth photo down? Is the star mine we drove past in Burke Idaho. It’s the deepest hole in North America at 8100 feet deep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorCalWitness Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 8 minutes ago, norseman said: Like the eighth photo down? Is the star mine we drove past in Burke Idaho. It’s the deepest hole in North America at 8100 feet deep. you said deepest hole..... LOLOLOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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