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Ladner
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 4:08 PM
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This trip report is a little late in the making but I wanted to get it up anyway. It's actually a compilation of three consecutive trips into Centre creek to repair the damage to the road and the log crossing the creek from last years storms and rain.
Earlier in the spring I walked up the road to the log crossing and encountered many deadfall along the way, and also found that the log crossing the creek had moved and rolled over making it slippery and difficult to cross.
 This is what it looked like
June 23
Knowing that this was going to be a fair bit of physically hard work I rounded up a few tough guy's to get the job done. Claire Bear and Quirkygal definitely did work hard and they cleared the road of all the deadfall and moved some dirt and rocks that had slid over the road. I of course supervised the work and took pictures.
     
July 1
We didn't have enough time the previous weekend to fix the log crossing so I figured that with a few people we could go back and get it done in a couple of hours and have the rest of the day to explore. Fortunately Radmilla and Dean1160 were interested in joining me for the day. Now Dean hadn't been out on any trips for the past three years on account of his two new children and I don't think he knew what he was in for.
The plan was to flatten and put a new handrail on the log. To do this I would have to walk out and work on it with the chainsaw, fearing that I might fall off and into the creek in the process I brought along a life-jacket and a helmet but found that it wasn't that necessary. I would go out and cut three or four perpendicular cuts in the top of the log and then Radmilla or Dean would go out and chip off the pieces with the prybar.
  
This whole process ended up taking a bit of time and it was after three before it was done. But now we could safely run across instead of crawling as a few people had done previously. So we decided to head off to towards the Illusions and leave the handrail for a future date.
As we walked up the Centre creek road we also lopped off some more alder that fallen across during the winter. Just before the big flat bridge we took a logging spur that heads up towards the Illusions. At a point where we were below the toe of the ridge that extends to the east of the Illusion group we entered the forest and bushwacked up to the alpine. I think Dean was now questioning what the hell he had gotten himself into but continued on nonetheless. After an hour of this we popped out into a big talus filled basin and the upper clearcut from the road we had left earlier. We could now see the ridge ahead and a mountain that I thought was one of the Illusions but would later learn that it was Dissillusion Peak. Time was definitely getting on but we decided to at least gain the ridge so we could look over to Slesse and Crossover.
 Our route
 Dissillusion Peak
 Slesse
 Williams Peak, Northgraves and Goat (Porcupine) Peak
 Lindeman
 Our high point
It was now eight pm, we decided to just follow the logging road back down but it quickly turned into a horizontal alder thrash so we just bushwacked straight back down through the second growth to the lower road getting out of it just as darkness fell. While we were hiking back along the logging road in the dark we were greeted by a pair of eye's staring back at us in the darkness, it then moved into the forest and continued to stare at us makeing no noise as it moved, so I think it must have been some sort of cat. It was 11:30 by the time we got back to the truck and somehow I don't think that this was what Dean had in mind for his first trip out in several years but I think Radmilla and Dean had a good time anyway.
July 8
I had told a few friends about our trip the previous week and they were keen on going back and trying to climb the Illusion peaks from this approach, but this time we would leave the tools behind. We followed the same approach and scrambled up to the Top of Dissilusion, from there it looked like it would be easy to get over to the north Illusion peak but when we went down to the col between the two of them we encountered a deep notch that would have taken some time get past so we called it a day there and headed back. Once again we tried to take one of the logging roads back down but ended up just going straight down through the bush anyway.
 Dissillusion, the Illusions and Rexford from Crossover
 A close up of Dissillusion and the notch
 Wildman's pic from Corriveau, Dissillusion on the lower right
Some views from the top
 MacDonald and Lindeman  Rexford and the Illusions  Rexford, the NE ridge on the left.
 Tony showing off again  Al (Spectrum)  Dan |
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 Herbal tea drinkin, tree huggin, view seeking, tortoise paced, ultralite wannabe
Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 5:18 PM
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Thanks for staying on top of this approach, Gerry. Always nice to have a few good hands to help, too  |
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Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards
Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 6:47 PM
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A very interesting read of your hard work and adventure up an area I would like to head up. Great results and great photos..well done.
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Fast hikin, carrot chompin, always grinnin, gear scatterin recipient of the Theta Lake manouver
Burnaby
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Posted - 08/11/2007 : 4:26 PM
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Some fun pictures in there.
For the bunch who did the work, well done!
For those who came the week after all the work had been done...well?  |
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 08/11/2007 : 9:33 PM
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| Thanks for all the work and the informative report Gerry. |
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Surrey, BC
Canada
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Posted - 08/12/2007 : 12:36 PM
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For those who came the week after all the work had been done...well?
I'm not sure if I understand this correctly burnabyhiker, but anyways to see what the road looked like before to the shape it's in now is rather impressive. |
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Fast hikin, carrot chompin, always grinnin, gear scatterin recipient of the Theta Lake manouver
Burnaby
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Posted - 08/12/2007 : 12:45 PM
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I'm not sure if I understand this correctly burnabyhiker, but anyways to see what the road looked like before to the shape it's in now is rather impressive.
It looked like some different people went along for the hike than those who worked on the trail the week before. Just giving them the gears.  |
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Trail blazin', backcountry bushwackin', pine huntin', photo takin', long winded story teller
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Posted - 08/12/2007 : 10:08 PM
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Good job you guys. Thanks for pointing out the peak names.
I knew they were the Illusions but did not know where Rexford stopped and they started.
Another good report.  |
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Work, exploration and Dissillusion in Centre Ck
