> We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike mentioned
> that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
> group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of great
> concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
> group. We apparently were getting too close to their
> poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a brief
> talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
>
> Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
> assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
> being violated.


If anyone "tagged" the GPS co-ordinates on their gps, they could still send
them into the RCMP or the OPP..

Sounds like they were drunk frenchmen out for a weekend of fun, I should see
if the wife's relatives were in that area..lol.

 

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"4X4PLAY" <jrhiltz@eastlink.ca> wrote in message
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> Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
> us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
> years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about
> camping on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to
> catch for my Dad to camp there...was there??
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
> "Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
> news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
>> Well, for my 2 cents
>>
>> Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
>> reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
>> potentially
>> missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
>> favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
>> the
>> road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
>> act
>> up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made
>> it.
>>
>> I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find
>> he
>> was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
>> sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
>>
>> Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
>> that.
>>
>> The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
>> area
>> and anti-coon food storage area.
>>
>> The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
>> blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
>>
>> As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
>> of
>> rain...was enjoyable for sure.
>>
>> I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
>> Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great
>> stay
>> as well.
>>
>> Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10
>> days
>> sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
>>
>> I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
>> wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
>>
>> Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror
>> being
>> smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
>> Boler..(Big
>> Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
>> Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
>> got
>> in okay.
>>
>> The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
>> tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
>> were
>> fine.
>>
>> Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
>> something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
>> went over very well with Jo this trip.
>>
>> Trip was a great success...
>> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
>>> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
>>> out!
>>>
>>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>>
>>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
>>> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>>
>>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>>> can get through.
>>>
>>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>>
>>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>>> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>>>
>>> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
>>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>>
>>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>>> sure.
>>>
>>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>>> there, soo....
>>>
>>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
>>> LOL!
>>>
>>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>>>
>>> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>>> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>>>
>>> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
>>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>>>
>>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>>
>>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>>>
>>> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>>> guns just don't mix....
>>>
>>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>>> wanted.
>>>
>>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>>> photo on another trip....
>>>
>>> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
>>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>>
>>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>>
>>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>>> photos of him?
>>>
>>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>>> sit...
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Mike Romain wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Folks,
>>> >
>>> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
>>> > Labor
>>> > Day, September 5th.
>>> >
>>> > Mike
>>> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>>> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>>
>>
>
>

 

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"4X4PLAY" <jrhiltz@eastlink.ca> wrote in message
news:GhUVe.273565$on1.271250@clgrps13...
> Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
> us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
> years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about
> camping on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to
> catch for my Dad to camp there...was there??
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
> "Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
> news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
>> Well, for my 2 cents
>>
>> Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
>> reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
>> potentially
>> missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
>> favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
>> the
>> road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
>> act
>> up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made
>> it.
>>
>> I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find
>> he
>> was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
>> sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
>>
>> Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
>> that.
>>
>> The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
>> area
>> and anti-coon food storage area.
>>
>> The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
>> blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
>>
>> As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
>> of
>> rain...was enjoyable for sure.
>>
>> I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
>> Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great
>> stay
>> as well.
>>
>> Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10
>> days
>> sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
>>
>> I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
>> wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
>>
>> Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror
>> being
>> smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
>> Boler..(Big
>> Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
>> Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
>> got
>> in okay.
>>
>> The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
>> tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
>> were
>> fine.
>>
>> Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
>> something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
>> went over very well with Jo this trip.
>>
>> Trip was a great success...
>> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
>>> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
>>> out!
>>>
>>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>>
>>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
>>> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>>
>>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>>> can get through.
>>>
>>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>>
>>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>>> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>>>
>>> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
>>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>>
>>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>>> sure.
>>>
>>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>>> there, soo....
>>>
>>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
>>> LOL!
>>>
>>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>>>
>>> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>>> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>>>
>>> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
>>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>>>
>>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>>
>>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>>>
>>> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>>> guns just don't mix....
>>>
>>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>>> wanted.
>>>
>>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>>> photo on another trip....
>>>
>>> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
>>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>>
>>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>>
>>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>>> photos of him?
>>>
>>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>>> sit...
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Mike Romain wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Folks,
>>> >
>>> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
>>> > Labor
>>> > Day, September 5th.
>>> >
>>> > Mike
>>> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>>> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>>
>>
>
>

 

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..
"4X4PLAY" <jrhiltz@eastlink.ca> wrote in message
news:GhUVe.273565$on1.271250@clgrps13...
> Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
> us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
> years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about
> camping on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to
> catch for my Dad to camp there...was there??
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
> "Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
> news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
>> Well, for my 2 cents
>>
>> Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
>> reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
>> potentially
>> missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
>> favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
>> the
>> road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
>> act
>> up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made
>> it.
>>
>> I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find
>> he
>> was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
>> sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
>>
>> Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
>> that.
>>
>> The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
>> area
>> and anti-coon food storage area.
>>
>> The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
>> blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
>>
>> As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
>> of
>> rain...was enjoyable for sure.
>>
>> I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
>> Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great
>> stay
>> as well.
>>
>> Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10
>> days
>> sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
>>
>> I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
>> wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
>>
>> Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror
>> being
>> smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
>> Boler..(Big
>> Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
>> Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
>> got
>> in okay.
>>
>> The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
>> tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
>> were
>> fine.
>>
>> Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
>> something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
>> went over very well with Jo this trip.
>>
>> Trip was a great success...
>> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
>>> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
>>> out!
>>>
>>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>>
>>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
>>> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>>
>>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>>> can get through.
>>>
>>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>>
>>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>>> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>>>
>>> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
>>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>>
>>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>>> sure.
>>>
>>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>>> there, soo....
>>>
>>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
>>> LOL!
>>>
>>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>>>
>>> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>>> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>>>
>>> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
>>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>>>
>>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>>
>>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>>>
>>> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>>> guns just don't mix....
>>>
>>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>>> wanted.
>>>
>>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>>> photo on another trip....
>>>
>>> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
>>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>>
>>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>>
>>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>>> photos of him?
>>>
>>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>>> sit...
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Mike Romain wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Folks,
>>> >
>>> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
>>> > Labor
>>> > Day, September 5th.
>>> >
>>> > Mike
>>> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>>> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>>
>>
>
>

 

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"4X4PLAY" <jrhiltz@eastlink.ca> wrote in message
news:GhUVe.273565$on1.271250@clgrps13...
> Sounds like you guys had a great adventure...thanks for sharing it with
> us...Geeze, I haven't heard of Bon Echo since I was jus a wee tot, over 30
> years ago...growing up in Ottawa I remember my parents talking about
> camping on Bon Echo...there would have to be some half decent Trout to
> catch for my Dad to camp there...was there??
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
> "Seppster" <steve@seppala.ca> wrote in message
> news:g1NVe.2547$1G4.372515@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
>> Well, for my 2 cents
>>
>> Day one was a bit confusing. Dragging a small Boler behind me, I had
>> reservations about dragging this stock fiberglas bubble over the
>> potentially
>> missing dam, so Jo and I skirted around the long way and entered our
>> favourite trail on the east side - Bon Echo way. After about 8 hours on
>> the
>> road, and a 1.5 hour trip in from the main highway, my tranny started to
>> act
>> up. Few clicks and some smoke out of the engine area...we finally made
>> it.
>>
>> I blew my siren off to let Mike know we were on our way....only to find
>> he
>> was not where he was supposed to be...Where could he be. We saw Mike
>> sightings in the camp and heard his voice in the quite of the night...
>>
>> Then the next day...he found us. Well, Mike filled you in on the rest of
>> that.
>>
>> The Boler was great to stay in the first night and made a great kitchen
>> area
>> and anti-coon food storage area.
>>
>> The Coleman Coffee maker and the Coleman Oven we bought on the way were a
>> blessing. Jo has to have her coffee for sure.
>>
>> As mentioned the weather was mostly fine, bit of wind, few bugs and a day
>> of
>> rain...was enjoyable for sure.
>>
>> I missed out on last years trip, and was great to be back in company with
>> Mike and Mel, as well as Nick. Peter, Oliver and Jon made for a great
>> stay
>> as well.
>>
>> Alika our daugher had a wonderful time. Having a 8 year old in for 10
>> days
>> sometimes makes for some creative activities, but she did very well.
>>
>> I wish I had of zoomed the digital camera before I took the pic of the
>> wolf. The damn flash scared him off before I got another shot off.
>>
>> Trail damage on this trip was summed up with a passenger side mirror
>> being
>> smucked off a tree, and only minor damage to the back end of the
>> Boler..(Big
>> Rocks). Other than that, I was quite impressed on how the Boler did. The
>> Boler has a ground clearance of a Volkswagen and was quite surprised it
>> got
>> in okay.
>>
>> The trip out was fun. Because I heated up the tranny really well, I
>> tractored the trailer out in 4Lo (2 hours for 17 kms). Trailer and Jeep
>> were
>> fine.
>>
>> Thanks to Mike for again for teaching the fine art og cooking. I learn
>> something new everytime. He taught me how to do ribs a few months ago and
>> went over very well with Jo this trip.
>>
>> Trip was a great success...
>> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:43272708.598C276B@sympatico.ca...
>>> Well, my wife and I had a really nice vacation, thanks to all that came
>>> out!
>>>
>>> We ended up with 10 people including a couple of 'young Jeepers'.
>>>
>>> I went in early to try and get the quietest lake's main campsite and
>>> there was a warning about the creek I had to cross's bridge being under
>>> construction for the whole 2 weeks and the road being 'impassable'.
>>> Ouch I figure, I might have to do a 75 mile detour and stop to let
>>> someone on my email list know to come in the other way....
>>>
>>> So I figure no way that marsh is 'impassable' for my CJ7 with my
>>> 33x9.5's backed up by my Warn 9000 even if I am running solo so I go for
>>> it. Ok, no construction so I stop and walk where I thought I could ford
>>> the marsh and still figure no problems, if they take the sucker out, 'I'
>>> can get through.
>>>
>>> I made it into the campsite and set up then went and out-thunk myself...
>>> I am figuring Steve and Jo wanted to camp at the noisy beach anyway and
>>> it is 'about' a half hour 'drive' in my CJ7 closer to the bridge, let
>>> alone walk so if anyone couldn't get across and walked the rest of the
>>> way it would be better to be closer so I moved over the next morning and
>>> hung my pie plate on that trail head.
>>>
>>> Found Brian who used to have a Jeep, but still came with his Toyota 4x4,
>>> there looking at the view and set up camp.
>>>
>>> He informs me the bridge 'is' out on the river, but it is on a different
>>> road downstream, not the one we need to cross anyway, so that's cool.
>>> Turns out Peter came that way later just before the long weekend and was
>>> lucky enough to just have to wait for a couple nails to be put in before
>>> he could be the 'first' across it.
>>>
>>> That night we heard a siren go off and I think of Steve, who I though
>>> had one. I get on the CB and nope, no answer so figure a cop or warden
>>> is giving some drunk ATV'er a hard time. (there were 'LOTS' of them,
>>> drunk ATV'ers that is, they were trouble) Billy Ray showed up the next
>>> day and found me at the 'wrong' lake and then some ATV'ers came by
>>> talking about the crazy fools in a red Jeep who got a 'Boler' trailer
>>> into the next lake over! LOL! That can only be Steve and Mad Jo for
>>> sure.
>>>
>>> So Brian is having a nap and Billy Ray and I go over to have a look and
>>> sure enough, there they are. They forgot to put the CB on when he hit
>>> the siren, figures, and they came the other way in case the bridge was
>>> out so they missed my plate sign, and I did say I was going to be over
>>> there, soo....
>>>
>>> Steve and Billy Ray came along and we knocked my camp down in about 10
>>> minutes with 3 of us and the 3 Jeeps to toss stuff into. Brian was
>>> still napping, I called to him when we got there and by the time he woke
>>> up, the camp was gone. He came out shaking his head, hunh, what???
>>> LOL!
>>>
>>> We moved over to where Steve and Jo were and settled in. I had to go
>>> out on Sunday to pick up my wife at the nearest bus station because she
>>> had to work up until Saturday night and got supplies.
>>>
>>> Saw a ton of ruffed grouse and a few quail on the trails. Could of had
>>> fresh road kill if I had of punched the go pedal a couple times, but
>>> Billy Ray said that was too much hillbilly and he was only a red neck,
>>> so I said aww ok... ;-)
>>>
>>> Steve had a fold up Coleman oven which worked great so our menu
>>> increased in possibilities. He did a roast in it one day and I did a
>>> full sized chicken with homemade stuffing, baked buttercup squash and
>>> mashed potatoes. Mmm, they all turned out perfectly cooked. I did up
>>> some cinnamon rolls one evening, they seemed to be a winner too. I am
>>> going to get myself one of those ovens, the full chicken dinner used way
>>> less than one tank of coleman fuel. We ate pretty good as usual, I spit
>>> roasted a duck one day. Tried to get a couple so everyone could have
>>> some, but the town only had one duck left. We had fresh blueberries and
>>> maple syrup for pancakes, mmmm. Did some pork tenderloin 'cordon blu',
>>> stuffed with ham and swiss and covered in a cream of mushroom sauce one
>>> day, Steve had tons of venison and Billy Ray was the hot dog and sausage
>>> king. You 'mericans have a funny idea of canned chili on them dogs....
>>>
>>> So we basically relaxed and visited for the week, Peter and son as well
>>> as Snowboardripper showed up for the long weekend.
>>>
>>> The armed drunk ATV'ers going around shooting up the roads at all hours
>>> of the day and night were a bit disconcerting. One was shooting a whole
>>> pile too close to us one day there, so I had Steve give three hit on his
>>> 'big' barmp! horn to let the fool know there were others around, another
>>> gun went off single shot close to us in another direction too letting
>>> the fool know there were hunters in the woods besides us campers too.
>>>
>>> The boys went on a run there on the weekend to try and finish the one I
>>> snapped my frame on last year and they got almost to the lake they were
>>> aiming for when these same drunk ATV'ers barred the trail and forced
>>> them to turn around. Too bad no one thought to take photos of those
>>> jerks, the RCMP (cops) don't take kindly to that kind of BS happening.
>>> This is all crown or public land and is open to all. Drunks, ATV's and
>>> guns just don't mix....
>>>
>>> I wasn't on that run, I have some badly messed up neck vertebra so took
>>> it real easy, so those that were can chime in here with a trip report if
>>> wanted.
>>>
>>> The fishing was good, we kept enough for a feed and yes Billy Ray, I do
>>> like sardines, I just prefer canned ones to the 'fresh' one in your
>>> photo. ;-) Although I was contemplating using him for bait for that
>>> monster laker I know is hiding in there somewhere because I got his
>>> photo on another trip....
>>>
>>> It wasn't really good swimming weather, sunny mostly with was a cool
>>> wind blowing, and blowing and blowing... My bug/rain tent decided to go
>>> airborne one day. We had everyone trying to hold it down while I tied
>>> and staked some more. That thing really wanted to go!
>>>
>>> Got rained on good, but it only lasted a day.
>>>
>>> We had a nice sized wolf show up at the camp the day Steve is grilling
>>> some venison chops and I am roasting chicken. He came directly up wind
>>> at us with is nose just twitching. Man what a time not to have a
>>> camera. Steve got a shot of his eyes, but the auto focus bit the big
>>> one and focused on a close tree, not the wolf. Did anyone else get any
>>> photos of him?
>>>
>>> I am getting together a photo album so if any of you have interesting
>>> shots, please email them to me or send me a link. I got Billy Ray's and
>>> am wading through Steve's monster photos so I will post a link soon to
>>> them. Sorry for the delay, but physiotherapy introduced me to some
>>> muscles I didn't know I had last week and am now still barely able to
>>> sit...
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Mike Romain wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Folks,
>>> >
>>> > We are heading into the bush on August 27th 2005 and coming out on
>>> > Labor
>>> > Day, September 5th.
>>> >
>>> > Mike
>>> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>>> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>>
>>
>
>

 

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Albums: http://www.----------.com/mikeRomain/ (Needs Explorer Browser
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GPS co-ordinates of the 'encounter' are: 44 55 33.92 N 77 22 39.66 W/

/Peter

"Snow" <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:cQVVe.2721$1G4.401038@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
>
> > We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike
mentioned
> > that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
> > group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of
great
> > concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
> > group. We apparently were getting too close to their
> > poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a
brief
> > talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
> >
> > Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
> > assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
> > being violated.
>
>
> If anyone "tagged" the GPS co-ordinates on their gps, they could still
send
> them into the RCMP or the OPP..
>
> Sounds like they were drunk frenchmen out for a weekend of fun, I should
see
> if the wife's relatives were in that area..lol.
>
>

 

GPS co-ordinates of the 'encounter' are: 44 55 33.92 N 77 22 39.66 W/

/Peter

"Snow" <snowbal@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:cQVVe.2721$1G4.401038@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
>
> > We had an enjoyable but all too brief off-road excursion as Mike
mentioned
> > that was curtailed by Snowboardripper's cool head when confronted with a
> > group of drunk yabbos on ATVs. Aggressive drunks with guns were of
great
> > concern to all involved as we had two small frightened children in our
> > group. We apparently were getting too close to their
> > poaching/drug/moonshine making operation for their liking. After a
brief
> > talk and promise to withdraw from the area the situation was diffused.
> >
> > Perhaps a call or letter to the authorities with the GPS location of the
> > assault would be warranted as I imagine a whole host of regulations were
> > being violated.
>
>
> If anyone "tagged" the GPS co-ordinates on their gps, they could still
send
> them into the RCMP or the OPP..
>
> Sounds like they were drunk frenchmen out for a weekend of fun, I should
see
> if the wife's relatives were in that area..lol.
>
>