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Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticton
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:48 pm
by jessef
Took a different route to go to Penticton this time around. Just past Hedley, we took the Hedley mountain road over the mountain tops to the other side so Aspen and down to Penticton.
Ended up getting somewhat lost due to a malfunctioning GPS and a 'I left the backroads mapbook at home' moment. Backtracked slightly and took a gas pipe line road to civilization.
It turned out that the gas pipeline service road was just a track that was made by a caterpillar excavator and not in fact, a normal vehicle. The Safari handled the very narrow sections well as well as a few small obstacles, rock slide, fast flowing creek that looked shallow and ended up being a poop-my-shorts-4ft-deep creek, almost vertical drop over a hill, etc...
The rock slide section took a number of attempts to figure out which way to climb. The Safari dwarfs the rocks on the service road but they are huge !
The Rich-special-Safari-camping-sleeping cabinet unit worked out very well.
Good times.
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:42 pm
by jessef
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:43 pm
by jessef
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Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:44 pm
by jessef
Hedley mountain
If only I was driving a turbo Subra WRX AWD with the road blocked off at the top. The banked zig-zag switchbacks were fun to drive. Climbing a few thousand feet was pretty quick.
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:45 pm
by jessef
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Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:46 pm
by jessef
finale
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:52 pm
by nxski
Looks like a great trip, and that's a sweet slideout drawer!
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:49 pm
by sasquatch-hunter
Nice photos and I like some of the perspective shots!
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:14 pm
by psilosin
Cool pics. I hope you ate a galette from Joy Road Bakery at the Farmers Market. So #%!^*%# good!!!...and they drive a Hiace so that makes them cool.
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:20 pm
by William
Nice shots Jesse. BC is a beautiful place for sure.
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:54 pm
by madmazda
see this is the exact reason i want to move to bc when I'm finished my plumbing apprenticeship I wanna come to....
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:51 am
by pajerry
I was exploring that area from the Coq to Tulameen on the lawless FSR, down through Hedley and camped at Cathedral Prov Park, surprised I didn't bump into you. Pretty hard to miss a safari..
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:16 pm
by davidwwc
Hi Jessy,
Nice pictures and looks like lots of fun. My be you can arrange a beginner off roading someday ?
I am sure there are some people interested in that.
Cheers,
DC
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:03 am
by TardisDeli
I wuz near there too, with my red whitewater canoe atop my TardisDeli, canoeing various overflowing rivers. Lawless FSR, Merrit, Douglas Lake Ranch, 97C, 33, Rock Creek (it was so hot there I actually had to air down my tires a bit as un-cold morning temp was so hot it caused tires to be at max inflation before I drove the van). Love that Lawless area. Christine.
Re: Van to Hedley then up the mountains and over to Penticto
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:20 pm
by trialsmaster2
Great photos of your off roading adventure there!
