wiiawiwb Posted October 10, 2021 Posted October 10, 2021 Congrats on the new job PNW. Hope you can get out more often because of it especially because you're in the Bigfoot capital of the world. Happy hunting. 1
PNWexplorer Posted October 11, 2021 Posted October 11, 2021 7 hours ago, wiiawiwb said: Congrats on the new job PNW. Hope you can get out more often because of it especially because you're in the Bigfoot capital of the world. Happy hunting. It's ironic that I used to get 3 or 4 days off before, but now get more done with only 2 days off. Before, I used to sleep until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Now, I am up well before noon, so have so much more daylight to get stuff done. During the work week, I have plenty of time to do chores and even go shoot before work. Before, it was wake up, shower, and get to work. Hoping to get back in shape enough to do some deep off-trail exploring in order to discover some real BF sign and habitat. 1
Huntster Posted October 11, 2021 Posted October 11, 2021 8 hours ago, PNWexplorer said: .......Saw tons of hunting camps being set up, though. All filled with vehicles with plates from the county South of us, which is infamous for slob hunters and white trash. Almost got ran off the road by one of them hauling butt in an F250 towing a trailer full of UTVs on a single lane dirt road with blind corners. I was on my CB calling out mile markers and no response, then that idiot comes flying around a corner on my side of the road and flips me off........ A shitbag. 1 1
NorthWind Posted October 11, 2021 Posted October 11, 2021 SB is right! I just got a CB because logging trucks freak me out with the way they drive. They don't just THINK they own the road, they DO own the road. I kept the installation very minimal as I will soon be selling my truck for a Jeep and will move it to that. 1
Popular Post BC witness Posted October 12, 2021 Author Popular Post Posted October 12, 2021 Here in BC all the commercial trucks using the resource roads (logging, mining, oil) must have radios that use 32 special channels in the land mobile band. Each road uses it's own dedicated channel, which is posted at km 0, and drivers must call out distance markers and direction as they pass them; i.e. "Harrison East, 2km up" or "Thurston, 5km down" For this reason, I had a commercial radio installed in my H3, and it's very comforting to know where the big rigs are. These radios (mine's an Icom) are about 10 times as powerful as CBs, and about 3 times as expensive, but well worth it in my opinion. The range is excellent, even in our very mountainous Province. We also have a dedicated frequency for the 4x4 clubs programmed into these radios, so our trail chatter doesn't interfere with the commercial users. There is a license required to use these units, but no exam, just a $40/year fee. 5
norseman Posted October 13, 2021 Admin Posted October 13, 2021 Found this today while scouting for more firewood on the Newport property. Looks twisted. But old. Just curious. 3
PNWexplorer Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 Found an old homestead site today. Tons of cool machinery. 4
BlackRockBigfoot Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 7 hours ago, PNWexplorer said: Found an old homestead site today. Tons of cool machinery. The area around us is littered with stuff like this… old machinery and equipment, old homes quietly decaying deep in the forest. When a lot of the land here was turned into national forests, there were people living there tucked away in the hollers. Some moved away per the government’s demands. Some didn’t. We find old stills fairly often. 1 1
norseman Posted October 13, 2021 Admin Posted October 13, 2021 8 hours ago, PNWexplorer said: Found an old homestead site today. Tons of cool machinery. 1
Popular Post BC witness Posted October 16, 2021 Author Popular Post Posted October 16, 2021 (edited) Love the old buildings and equipment, @BlackRockBigfoot. Although BC has fur trading and gold mining history going back 200+ years, not much survives in the wet coastal area where I live and explore; there is much more of what you show in the drier interior plateau. Monday, the 11th, was our Thanksgiving holiday here in Canada, and since my family did our big dinner on the Sunday, I was free to do a day trip. I chose the Mystery Valley/Eagle Creek region due to it's distance off pavement and number of reports of sightings and footprint finds over the last few decades. The start of the gravel FSR is about 45 minutes from my home, and it's about 40 km on the main logging road to reach the Mystery Valley turn off. Once I was headed up that road, I explored every branch line off it, most of which were deactivated, with cross ditching to prevent the whole trail getting washed away in our fall and winter monsoons. I saw no big game sign, and no sasquatch evidence, but did manage to bag a nice plump grouse for a future dinner. After crossing Mystery Pass into the Eagle Creek drainage, I turned upstream on the east side of the creek to a bridge about 5 km in, then headed downstream on the west side, hoping to reach Chehalis Lake on that side, but eventually reached a washout that was a bit too challenging to attempt, so I backtracked to the east side and reached the lake that way. The weather was great all day, and I sat for an hour in a camp chair during my lunch stop, with a great view of most of the creek valley below me. There were a few campers still at the north beach, where Eagle Creek feeds the lake, and lots of human and dog tracks all over the beach, so no chance of locating extra large tracks on the pebbly beach. Near dusk, I headed back towards Mystery Pass, exploring one more side branch before dark, then it was back onto the main FSR, and a bumpy 40 km back to pavement and then home. Edited October 16, 2021 by BC witness 2 4
cmknight Posted October 17, 2021 Posted October 17, 2021 @BC witness A few years ago, after the Eagle Creek FSR was re-opened, I drove all the way up to where the headwaters start, and camped overnight in the truck. It wasn't long before I was getting the feeling that I wasn't wanted in that area. I didn't find any tracks up there, but there was also no sign of any other creature either. No deer. No bears. No grouse. No nuthin'! It was so quiet the whole night that you could have heard a proverbial pin drop.
BC witness Posted October 17, 2021 Author Posted October 17, 2021 (edited) cmknight, I tried to go as far upstream as possible, hoping to reach the fairly large waterfall that's visible from parts of the valley, but the east bank road ends where my H3 is parked in the 8th pic down, and the west bank road ends at a very old washed out bridge. I believe that both spots are still a few km from the falls and the headwaters. The falls are just visible almost dead centre in this photo, appearing as a vertical white line in the dark green trees. Try zooming in. I thought I had saved my Gaia maps track of this trip, but it's not on my phone, so i guess I didn't push the right button at the right time. It showed my progress up both sides of the valley very clearly. Edited October 17, 2021 by BC witness 1 2
Popular Post cmknight Posted October 17, 2021 Popular Post Posted October 17, 2021 @BC witness The spot I got to, the road ended at a very large clear-cut area near the top of a ridge. It had been recently worked as there were still tracks in the road from the equipment. I slept in the truck, as the ground was still muddy from recent rains, and cooked smokies on a campfire for my Thanksgiving dinner. It got really cloudy and foggy overnight, but no snow fell, which was too bad because something paid a visit while I was asleep. I was on a gravelled spot, so no tracks that I could see. 1 1 3
BC witness Posted October 17, 2021 Author Posted October 17, 2021 Great shots, cm. You definitely got further up the valley than i did. How long ago was this? We'll have to get together for another outing like our run up the ridge between Alluoette and Stave a couple of years ago. I now have a much more capable 4x4 than the Mitsu suv.
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