British Columbia highway info requested

paulj wrote:
Why not take the short cut from Clinton to Pavilion, past Kelly Lake and over Pavilion mountain. Great views! Nice gravel road with 12 and 18% grades. :)

Did that in June of 2013. Pulled a small trailer over Pavilion Mountain. Once you get started up the grade at Downing Provincial Park, there is nowhere to turn around and far too steep and winding to back down.

I decided to keep going forward and once up top the mountain, the road was extremely wet and axle deep in mud. If it were not for a 4 wheel drive truck with a limited slip in the rear axle, I would not have made it.

I don't know exactly how long it took to traverse the road over the mountain, but all I could think about how much it would cost to have the truck and trailer airlifted by chopper if I got stuck as there was no way a recovery tow truck could have made it up there.

It was only a couple of miles from Pavilion where the road starts to descend that the mud cleared up. I stopped on road right above the old church in Pavilion and although I am not a religious man, the sight of that church just about convinced me...