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Looks like you had better weather than I did, a 100km or so WNW of you. I saw a few sunny breaks, but mostly drizzle all day, with a bit of fresh snow showing higher in the mountains, when I could see them.

 

I heard earlier in the week that the Ross Lake road system had finally re-opened after being severely damaged in the major flood event we had in Nov. of '21, so of course I had to go check it out. There were several sections of a km or more that had been completely obliterated by the Silver Creek, in the north section, and the Skagit River in the southern stretch. They've done a good job of rebuilding the damaged sections, raising and realigning the roadbed and putting huge box culverts under the cross creeks, with lots of boulder riprap to reinforce the banks. Hopefully it will withstand future 100 year rainfall events. 

 

The gravel surface was in excellent shape, making it easy to maintain the 60km/hr speed limit, with only very minor washboards in a few sections. Most of the side trails were still accessible, so I explored as many as I had time for, as far as conditions allowed, getting stopped by washouts, deadfalls and landslides on all of them eventually. One of our group's favourite camp spots is still in good shape, so we'll probably do our usual summer outing there this year.

 

As far as wildlife goes, I was disappointed to see only 1 grouse, and no larger game at all, though that valley is known to have deer, bear, cougar, bobcat, and moose, as well as several Sasquatch sightings that we've followed up on in the past. The valley bottom is prime game habitat, with many small creeks flowing down from the mountains on each side, and willow swamps and cattail bogs adjacent to the rivers and creeks.

 

 

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Pm me where that flat cleared spot is. I just might want to take my Astrophotography gear up there.

 

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1 hour ago, MagniAesir said:

Hopefully when I get back from Quebec, we can head out

Looking forward to it!

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1 hour ago, cmknight said:

Pm me where that flat cleared spot is. I just might want to take my Astrophotography gear up there.

 

Done

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Here's a 10 minute video of the Skagit Valley road taken by some local 4 wheelers on the same day that I was up there last weekend. They did a nice job of compressing the 60 km route down to 10 minutes.

 

 

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As an American it’s just weird.

 

The Skagit is south of the Nooksack in the U.S. And yet it’s coming out of Canada.

 

 

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1 hour ago, norseman said:

As an American it’s just weird.

 

The Skagit is south of the Nooksack in the U.S. And yet it’s coming out of Canada.

 

 

 

Yes, the Skagit River starts in Manning Provincial Park and flows roughly west, parallel to the border before turning south at Skagit Bluffs on Hwy 3, feeding Ross lake right at the border.

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Back up at Priest today. Lots of moose and Elk sign. Deer and turkey. Got snowed on. Tested out my inreach. It works.

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Got up high. Found some old bear poo (i think) Had to turn around.

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Took my new girlfriend up mushroom hunting.  She's a bigfoot enthusiast and we checked out a couple of interesting structures.  So nice to find someone that has the same interests!  We found plenty of mushrooms, but no tracks or definite structures.  Still beautiful woods and had a great time.  I installed my new winch bumper and 13k lbs winch last weekend, so was able to see how everything was working.

Unfortunately, I had to break things off with the woman as she had an alarming number of red flags pop up the next day.  I don't know which is harder to find; Bigfoot, or a woman over 40 who is conservative, Christian, beautiful, and not crazy, lol.

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4 hours ago, PNWexplorer said:

.........Unfortunately, I had to break things off with the woman as she had an alarming number of red flags pop up the next day.  I don't know which is harder to find; Bigfoot, or a woman over 40 who is conservative, Christian, beautiful, and not crazy, lol.

 

Sorry to read that. When I started reading your post, I was happy you'd found a lady. Yeah, they're rare find.

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I have never seen the northern lights like this outside of Alaska.

 

As a boy the northern lights looked like a white sheet over Canada. 
 

This time we could see all the colors and they were right above us.

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