I started this on the last post and the fawkin thing went blank and lost my post. So did the last one and now Im working on this one...
Im too lazy to unload my truck still.. feeling a bit crappy again and the truck is outside covered in copious amounts of mud and its raining.. LOL, the beers still cold in the cooler though.
This weekend was great.. other than getting caught in traffic on the sea to sky highway on the way up. We were completely stopped on the sea to sky hwy for 20 minutes at one point. The sign person was telling jokes over the radio to the other person. I saw nothing being done the entire time we were stopped. We went in behind Pemberton again, we along the Forest Service road again without anyone really breaking down (too bad), we hit snow in whistler then again in Pemberton.. it went away from the treeline then we hit it again at Sloquet. We were the only ones up there (six trucks/4runners and 15 people total), until the second night when a pair of guys in XJ's from Kelowna showed up.
Hotsprings were awesome with no hippy freakish nude people again, I guess the snow scared them away. We went out the Harrison way behind the Sasquatch Inn by Lougheed Fwy, and went through three major washouts from the melting snow, lots of trees down as well, luckily all our group is in heavily modified and lifted vehicles so we drove over the boulders and trees that were down without having to move them
I found out my nice big chrome rear toyota bumper wasnt as strong as I thought, lol. Starfish and myself were the first group up there, as we got tired of waiting for the others and headed up first to make sure we got spots before others took them.. it was pitch dark (of course) and my reverse lights suck.. add on to that I couldt see out my back window and my mirrors were covered in mud and it was dumping down rain. Ok, lets just say it was pretty crappy out. Anyhow, the snow was about 18-22 inches in some parts, like where I was trying to back through to set my truck up beside my tent (I could run a 12 power cord from the cig lighter to an electric blanket and such then). So, Im in 4 low with the hubs locked.. trying to back up between trees, stumps, and boulders with the very noticable and loud miss starfish guiding me so I dont hit anything.. For those of you that dont know us, she's not that noticable or loud.. especially on that night. So, Im giving generous amounts of the skinny pedal to get momentum through the snow (note: 35" MTR's arent the best in the snow) and Starfish moves to get a better view.. right behind the truck. I get close to a tree.. and she begins waving madly for me to stop. Can we see the problem here? lol, not yelling, just waving from behind the truck where I cant see. lol. Lets just say that its um, a little noticable lol.
Also, heres a little tidbit of info that might come in handy.. After you set up a tarp, keep careful note where your friends (who are more than likely a little bit on the two sheets to teh wind side of drinking at this point, I mean come on! Youve been there about an hour now.lol) move the firering to and where the pooling water from the tarp will dump. Otherwise theres a distinct possiblity that the fire will disappear in a puff of healthy lung choking smoke/steam as if Merlin the Magician waved his magic wand around with a big KazAAm!
Also, when you have been camping with the same group of people for a while.. you know we dont go slow over the logging roads with teh bumps, we go no matter what... You dont have to try to keep up as you know where we are going. So stop bringing glass bottles of beer that arent even packed from breakage then yell at the rest of us cause they broke! lol! I mean come on! It happens to at least 1-2 of them EVERY time, theres a reason that the rest of us pack up cans of beer and glass bottles of booze in rubbermaids.
LOL, there was lots of good times.. I wish I had a camera so I could show you some of the funny things. Oh, and potato cannons are great. Just make sure you bring enough potato's and Starting Fluid.
It was finaly sunny in the last day.. on the way out, lol. We tried a sun bringing dance around a fire the day before. I guess it mustve worked.
