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Vernon
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Posted - 06/08/2012 : 10:49 AM
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The weather man said there would be a mornings break from the rain so a friend and I headed out from Vernon to Cherryville and onto Sugar Lake.
Saw a grizly on the road that was nice.
We drove a little ways up the ATV road that heads up Sugar Mountain and parked at 1050m. The sun was out and we walked through the snow and every switch back it got deeper and deeper.
We through the snow shoes on at 1250m and kept up the path. It was excitting as the trees were shedding all the fresh snow. It was like a war zone with snow bombs dropping on our heads and all around us.
After a while there was more than a foot of heavy snow that we were plowing through and up where the trees became sparse it became very much like winter.
I was hoping to see how much winter snow was left to give me a heads up for future hikes in the next couple of weeks but all the new fresh snow covered everything.
The clouds came in and everything was pretty dark just after lunch when we got to the top. Could see the base of Goat and Fostall and surrounding hills but the peaks were all covered in clouds.
There was a nice little building up top (2190m), the door had 4feet of snow covering it, good thing it opens in. I signed my name in the book as the first person this year and read through some old entries
overall a good early season warm up.
sorry, not many pictures, it was too wet and at the top too cold.
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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 - 06/08/2012 : 12:07 PM
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It looks so much like Windy Joe, Manning Park on Top. Similar structure, similar hills.
Very neat shots; cool so much snow late into June ?
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fort st john, b.c.
Canada
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Posted - 06/08/2012 : 12:29 PM
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| where does the atv trail sart. good pic's i miss that area |
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru
Surrey Hole, BC
Canada
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Posted - 06/08/2012 : 9:51 PM
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thanks for posting this  |
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Armstrong, B.C.
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Posted - 06/09/2012 : 04:34 AM
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| Wow..looks like a ton of snow up there still! Thanks for the report. I haven't done this one yet! |
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Satirical photoshop junkie who frolics in the mountains of the Chilliwack River Valley
Chilliwack, BC
Canada
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Posted - 06/09/2012 : 08:21 AM
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| Nicely done A certain Neil Young song is floating around in my head now..."Oh to live on Sugar Mountain..." |
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Utah's canyon trekking,deck chair packing desert explorer who dreams of visiting Canada someday
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Posted - 06/11/2012 : 9:39 PM
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Wow! That last shot was unreal!! So, that is where winter takes its summer vacation? hehe
I wish we had shelters/buildings to stay in down here. Every time I come upon an old one, it has signs warning of huntavirus from mice.
...with the barkers and colored balloons.... hehe great song. Snow bombs? I had to think what those were from previous posts. Kinda like when I was in Diego Garcia in the Pacific and I heard a random thud!! every so often. Turned out there were huge coconuts dropping from trees and making a thud when they hit the sand. Whoah! If one of those hit a person, it would probably kill them. I wonder how many coconut related deaths there are in the Pacific. Especially those ones carried by swallows to non coconut regions. sheesh.
Great stuff. Thanks for the report, and suffering through the cold and wet to show us.
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Vernon
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Posted - 06/14/2012 : 3:30 PM
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the ATV has signs on the road. from Cherryvile go towards sugar lk, head right to circle around the East side of the lake and after going around an arm of water you'll see a small rd heading up.
It is well marked in backroads map book.
Just KEEP YOUR ATV ON THE ROAD, not the alpine!! |
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