4 maybe 5 weeks....

[garyhaupt]

Almost time...we are going to take off for a month long BC wander come Sept 15th. Probably drift thru highway 20 to Bella Coola, come back same way and Wells Grey Park, find some wild hot springs, watch trains in the Fraser Canyon. Spend a few days in Vancouver.

Can't say I ani't ready.


Gary Haupt

[EEWally]

Typically (on average?), Logan Pass closes for the winter around the 3rd Monday of October but anything goes. It can close temporarily but then reopen. That can happen a couple times until they throw in the towel and close it for the winter.

[garyhaupt]

Best do it soon....the pass will be closed soon enough due to snow.

Gary

[EEWally]

We're down here and would like to tour north of the border but that has to wait. Close to us, though, is Glacier National Park, an option but WOW. Here's a pic of the Logan Pass parking lot a while ago. I actually see an open parking spot!


We could drive our truck camper over the pass from the West but continue to St. Mary where we'd have to turn back (at last report) because the Blackfeet Tribe has closed the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to recreation because of the virus. Good for them.

The Blackfeet official website has a section described as "Prevent the spread on the Rez." Again, good for them.

[garyhaupt]

I am on an Off-Road Camping BC FB page and was laying out the plans. Someone reminded me that Bella Coola has been closed to outsiders. I sent off an E to the band office requesting a permit..and hey presto....Neat stuff.

Gary

[garyhaupt]

enblethen wrote:
Gary want to say he wanted to get out. He enjoys the BC area he lives in.
Every part of his and my liked portions of Western Canada is what we like to see.
There is areas of the US that I do not care fore but like to see it.
Don't condemn others to enjoy just getting out!

🙂

Gary

[garyhaupt]

gmckenzie wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
Almost time...we are going to take off for a month long BC wander come Sept 15th. Probably drift thru highway 20 to Bella Coola, come back same way and Wells Grey Park, find some wild hot springs, watch trains in the Fraser Canyon. Spend a few days in Vancouver.

Can't say I ani't ready.


Gary Haupt

Done most of that, just not Bella Coola. Road scares me a bit 🙂

Oh, and I doubt I'd ever try towing in Vancouver unless I had no choice. Can't even stand driving down there 🙂

Yeah..I don't know that I'd go touring around Vancouver, either, if I had a tow behind.


Gary

[gmckenzie]

garyhaupt wrote:
Almost time...we are going to take off for a month long BC wander come Sept 15th. Probably drift thru highway 20 to Bella Coola, come back same way and Wells Grey Park, find some wild hot springs, watch trains in the Fraser Canyon. Spend a few days in Vancouver.

Can't say I ani't ready.


Gary Haupt

Done most of that, just not Bella Coola. Road scares me a bit 🙂

Oh, and I doubt I'd ever try towing in Vancouver unless I had no choice. Can't even stand driving down there 🙂

[enblethen]

Gary want to say he wanted to get out. He enjoys the BC area he lives in.
Every part of his and my liked portions of Western Canada is what we like to see.
There is areas of the US that I do not care fore but like to see it.
Don't condemn others to enjoy just getting out!

[thomas201]

I'll assume that Canada, is like the US and that public land must be managed for multiple use. So if you get lemons, make lemonade. The taking of natural resources can be combined with views, wildlife management, hiking, fire control and so on.

On a personal note, in both Michigan and Virginia National Forests, we completed oil and gas wells, on 2 to 5 acre clear cuts, in cellars and covered the wellheads with a steel plate painted green. All lines were buried and only a few above ground tanks, painted green, were used in a large field. Then we planted the locations as wildlife food plots, as directed by Ricky the Ranger. Boom! Oil and gas production, sediment control, increased deer and associated animal populations, roads used by us, hikers, medical evacuation, and fire control. Everybody wins. Didn't cost us much money to do it this way and we probably came out ahead on legal fees and fines.

Near my home town, a lumber and mining company, had about 30,000 acres at 3,500 to 4,000 feet. The virgin timber was Red Spruce. But, that was cut 100 years ago. They continued to lumber the second growth hardwoods, and strip mine the area. Then they sold it to the National Forest. Well, by natural succession we would still have another 150 to 200 years to get the Red Spruce forest back. With a little dozer work and by planting Red Spruce on the strip mines we will have a fairly nice spruce forest in 50-75 years. Also a chain of small lakes, hiking trails, fire brakes, and eventually we will cut the timber. Make that lemonade. Future generations will think it is natural. The pros will know better.

It is all about using your brains, and working together.

[SideHillSoup]

PartyOf Five wrote:
Muncho Lake is beautiful if you go that way, but stay away from the logging and mining trucks. Despite the economic positives, seeing that destruction will ruin your trip.

Really, I take it you don’t live in a wooden house or have a flat screen TV etc.... there are a bunch of things I don’t like in the USA, but I don’t advertise it.
Now, the wife’s tomatoes are doing great... picked another 6 today.
Soup.

[garyhaupt]

ReneeG wrote:
I'm envious. We went to Canada back in 2005, I think. Did the Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper, Well Gray Provincial Park, Kamloops, and Revelstoke and everything in between and still didn't see enough. Have not been able to make it back.

We share a similar sentiment, just that ours is about Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico...our winter haunts. Instead, this coming winter will see us wandering BC...probably over to Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast. We'll probably have to do it bits n pieces. I don't quite see us out for 2/3 months at a stretch. But..a couple weeks here..a couple there, we hope is doable.


Gary

[ReneeG]

I'm envious. We went to Canada back in 2005, I think. Did the Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper, Well Gray Provincial Park, Kamloops, and Revelstoke and everything in between and still didn't see enough. Have not been able to make it back.

[garyhaupt]

PartyOf Five wrote:
Muncho Lake is beautiful if you go that way, but stay away from the logging and mining trucks. Despite the economic positives, seeing that destruction will ruin your trip.

Logging is never pretty. I am a BC boy and have done a short stint in the woods. Not for me, that life. But...the reality is..logging and mining = $$ and like everything in this world..it makes the wheels turn.

Thanks for the tip.


Gary

[garyhaupt]

enblethen wrote:
I wish we could come north to visit!
Like your Penticton/Kamloops area. Enjoy the Icefields Highway and Jasper!

I too love Banff and Jasper after the summer crush. Everything is closed..only it's all open. We'll go west forst, then come back thru Kamloops to Wells Grey...if you haven't been? Maybe put it on your list. Depending in COVID closures, we will head down to Nakusp and and couple other spots for hot springs.


Gary

[PartyOf_Five]

Muncho Lake is beautiful if you go that way, but stay away from the logging and mining trucks. Despite the economic positives, seeing that destruction will ruin your trip.