Easter Weekend 2009

[TheOtherSide]

So a few of us made some plans way back when and decided to head out for the Easter weekend. Our original destination was to be the famous "Bible Camp" near Sechelt, BC... but due to snow and a few hours of trying we decided that 2-3 feet of snow was just not worth plowing another 8 hours through to make it there. Steve & Jeremy each had a set of snow chains and they were still having lots of trouble hanging up on diffs and other underside parts on their trucks. 3 trucks followed our tracks in and ended up turning around also.

After lunch on Friday, we turned back from the snow and headed through Sechelt and figured we may end up trying Piper Point as we've heard stuff about that trail also. We met up with one of the local wheelers named Seth (I believe that was his name) in a well equipped Jeep Rubicon and he offered to take us to Piper Point. Well, he schooled us old folks with his Jeep... and likely had quite an amusing time watching us work our way through the trail out to the beach. Thanks Seth for the guidance!!

We found a great place to set up camp at the water... after a bit of discussion to ensure we wouldn't get flooded by the tide... and enjoyed the remainder of Friday, all of Saturday and Sunday morning relaxing in our Tarp/truck/tent town.

Sunday morning we took the easy way out and threw a few clay pigeons in a safe area, and then made it home 1 ferry earlier than planned.

We all had a great time... and are looking forward to the next trip out!!

Some photos for your entertainment:

Just mounted up the chains to try and push through the Bible Camp trail...
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Randy & I without chains following in the tracks...
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One of the many fun parts heading down to Piper Point...
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Jeremy made a bad judgement call when stepping on "solid" ground...
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Our fearless supervisor Greg...
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Back to the mud...
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Our camp...
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Drying shoes out seemed to be common...
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Some of the many faces of Jeremy...
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We spotted some friends way up high...
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These guys were great... apparently one of them lives on the water up there... but they beached their boat as the tide was heading out around lunch time to go bear hunting for about 1 hour to come back and find their boat on almost dry land!! Took about 5 hours of waiting and 2 quads to pull them into the water again...
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A dent on my Jeep... same dent on the other side. Darn rockers...
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OLC Mascot/Dork!
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The Marlboro Man!
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Anyhow... post up some of your pics guys... these are the ones worth sharing from my collection...

Was an awesome trip!!
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[myles.artus]

very cool weekend! im jelouse! im planning a pretty fun trip in June.. will be on the trails from the 5th to the 14th... :party: i will be taking lots of pictures and actually im trying to track down a digital camera recorder... i thought i had one but anyways... ill throw up as many pics as i can! tomorrow im going to be taking some pictures of the truck with the stickers on it... that looks like a great trip! hope to see more pictures like that!

[AxelR]

Very nice pictures Kelly. Looks like you had a good time. That is a lot of slop you guys ha to drive through. Worst part of that stuff is when you have to get out of the truck.:D

Too bad about Bible Camp. Looks like there was a fair bit of snow still and this time of year I bet it was slicker than whale snot.:eek:

Maybe in a month or so. I should have my truck on the road by then.

What did you shoot those pics with?

[TheOtherSide]

Very nice pictures Kelly. Looks like you had a good time. That is a lot of slop you guys ha to drive through. Worst part of that stuff is when you have to get out of the truck.:D

Too bad about Bible Camp. Looks like there was a fair bit of snow still and this time of year I bet it was slicker than whale snot.:eek:

Maybe in a month or so. I should have my truck on the road by then.

What did you shoot those pics with?

Yeah, I rinsed 3lbs or more of muck out of my back bumper from that mud hole...and they're plenty still in there.

I have a Canon Rebel XTI with a 18-200 lense... brought that bird in nice and close... and did some cropping to get it closer.

[Jeremy]

As soon as I can get time to host the pics Robin took I will put them up. You got some very good pictures.

[Sero]

Some of my pics...didn't get many as I was driving lots...

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[TheOtherSide]

As soon as I can get time to host the pics Robin took I will put them up. You got some very good pictures.

Um... so where are the pics Jeremy? :deal:

[Cody1771]

that looks awsome. is the trail full size friendly? if so id like to add it to my list of places to explore.

[TheOtherSide]

that looks awsome. is the trail full size friendly? if so id like to add it to my list of places to explore.

It's def not full length friendly.... if you have a short wheel base truck, you may be okay. It's a soupy messy trail, but is pretty fun!!

[Sero]

that looks awsome. is the trail full size friendly? if so id like to add it to my list of places to explore.

It's def not full length friendly.... if you have a short wheel base truck, you may be okay. It's a soupy messy trail, but is pretty fun!!

Agreed...most of the trail would of been fine, but there we're a few spots (near the beach) that we're tight for us Jeeps and Yotas. Def a fun trail that I would like to do again..perhaps go up it next time :D.
That being said, it would be nice to actually do Bible Camp..

[TheOtherSide]

This was an awesome trip... don't think the Burb would fit down to Piper Point the muddy way though...