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Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:01 am
by Scoobienorth
Well I’ll call this first official winter wheeling trip, didn’t make our destination, called it quits so close to the mara mt fire lookout after I fell off the road over the bank. Easy enough recovery with a little winch and traction mats. The blizzard was getting worse, Day was getting late so we backed down and headed for home. The Bajaclaws were killing it early on but as we got higher the drifts and icy conditions meant I went up front with the push block in the hitch so I could receive my gentle poundings when the trail became blocked. Once we hit the switchbacks it was hard enough keeping up they couldn’t push me. Super tight with snow drifts meant it was a tough slog up through them. Our tracks on the way down were even hard to find. I suspect we are the last tired vehicles up there in 2019

https://youtu.be/Plrkd24c9hI

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:13 pm
by Johnny5
Shoulda left a 2019 flag up there haha. Looks like fun

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:15 pm
by Scoobienorth
Johnny5 wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:13 pm Shoulda left a 2019 flag up there haha. Looks like fun
We wanted to sign the log book but never made it up. Would’ve been nice though to be the last vehicle up there this year

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:28 pm
by pointsnorth
Awesome to see you guys already getting the white stuff


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Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:48 pm
by Scoobienorth
It’s been snowing hard through today up there and the snow line is way down. But it’s supposed to warm up a bit.

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:07 pm
by Scott Cee AKA 2drx4
That's a lot of snow already. Damn.

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:22 pm
by Scoobienorth
https://www.instagram.com/p/B35Tx3zHrVU ... dqqjbvbcsb

You don’t need insta to look through his pics but Brian in the Mitsubishi got a few good pics of the conditions and how deep the snow was as I was working up the switchbacks

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:23 pm
by Scoobienorth
Actually the link works awesome on my phone. Can scroll the pics on this page and thinking about it more this is how forums should be integrating with social media links. Most wont do that with instagram

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:34 pm
by Scott Cee AKA 2drx4
Scoobienorth wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:23 pm Actually the link works awesome on my phone. Can scroll the pics on this page and thinking about it more this is how forums should be integrating with social media links. Most wont do that with instagram
Yeah, embedding/integrating content was important to me so I found an extension that would do it. It seems to work well with most things. There's a few other extensions I'd like to implement but some of them don't work quite right.

I'm trying. But I can't make people join. :homer:

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:33 am
by Scoobienorth
Scott Cee AKA 2drx4 wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:34 pm
Scoobienorth wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:23 pm Actually the link works awesome on my phone. Can scroll the pics on this page and thinking about it more this is how forums should be integrating with social media links. Most wont do that with instagram
Yeah, embedding/integrating content was important to me so I found an extension that would do it. It seems to work well with most things. There's a few other extensions I'd like to implement but some of them don't work quite right.

I'm trying. But I can't make people join. :homer:
I know lots of people post stuff on Instagram, pasting the link over here is pretty easy. Hopefully they do that. Good way of boosting content and conversations

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:00 am
by BEEFY
Great looking trip

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:42 pm
by HillBilt
Right on! and pretty cool with the instagram posting!!

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 10:37 pm
by Mr.gutsy
That trip looks epic. Getting me pumped for winter.

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:56 pm
by Scoobienorth
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4JaO9wHHVU ... 3mlr7eilil

Went rock crawling since we got a big rainstorm and wind that knocked our snowpack down. Steve walked off a 3 foot rock while filming and spotting me and spilled some blood. Few stitches after clearing up on the first aid kit in the bush

Re: Shuswap boys winter wheeling thread

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:08 pm
by Scott Cee AKA 2drx4
Damn, he went down hard.

Looked like a nice little boulder field you had there though.