Re: Anyone in the Ontario Canada area up for a New Years bush run? Trip Report!
 

Sounds like a very interesting time!
I'll have to try to look at the pics from work - if I go in the rest of the week. We
got sent home at 1130 due to the so called blizzard conditions (it was cold, it was
slick, and it was snowing, but I wouldnt have called it a blizzard).


On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:52:34 -0500, Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>>I got out for a couple days for the New Year and cruised around some
>>bush trails.
>>
>>It was really icy with almost no snow. Sorry I missed meeting up with
>>Peter, I will change my email list to CC folks instead of BCC them
>>because lots of folks, even my wife at home (she was checking email)
>>could have given directions.
>>
>>My wife came up by bus Sat. so we stayed until Monday and had a nice
>>time. There were lots of ATVs and other 4x4's on the trails and a few
>>'big' logging trucks. The loggers run on CB so we don't have any
>>conflicts on the trails, we all talk before heading out.
>>
>>The one trail head I was aiming for was closed due to loggers collapsing
>>a bridge less than 2 miles from the lake I was aiming for. Grr..., so
>>drove around 4 hours to the other trail head which didn't really hurt my
>>feelings, it was all bush roads. Had a nice time. Had to dodge some
>>big white tail deer, but missed them, the ditch and a photo, 3 times....
>>
>>Got a couple of a beaver working away and a couple of the trails.
>>
>>The trails were glass ice and almost impossible to walk on, so the
>>pucker factor was sure up there in a few spots. One place in particular
>>my wife was commenting on the wicked angle it is running at made me
>>laugh as I pointed to the dent in the ditch beside me and said oh, see
>>that hole, the CJ made that a couple years ago when it flipped into
>>there. See where the nice logger used his skidder to plow me a parking
>>spot when he dragged it out. LOL!
>>
>>Coming home was a bit of a trip. It was -10C and freezing rain. The
>>stuff was freezing onto the windshield before the wipers could get it
>>off. Even with my big heater blower motor I only had a hole about the
>>size of a letter envelope to see out of for a couple hours.
>>
>>I have posted photos over on alt.binaries.pictures.autos.4x4 and also at
>>Sony's Imagestation.
>>
>> http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4288090527
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>Mike Romain wrote:
>>>
>>> I am heading out tomorrow, Jan 1 2004 for 4 or 5 days south of the
>>> Bancroft area north of Kingston Ontario.
>>>
>>> Short notice, sorry but I just got the ok last night to go.
>>>
>>> I will be running logging/snowmobile trails that are dual/multi use and
>>> have permission to stay in a few hunt camps in the area.
>>>
>>> The trails are suited for any stock or better 4x4 and there is excellent
>>> ice fishing or winter fishing anyway.
>>>
>>> Running on 'winter' logging skidder roads can be fun. Those suckers
>>> have 6' tall tires and can make 'interesting' trails. LOL!
>>>
>>> For those that have been along before, I am heading for the Whitefish
>>> lake area where we summer camp. The loggers are working that end of the
>>> trail this year. I plan on being within a 2 mile radius of that lake in
>>> one of the camps.
>>>
>>> If anyone is interested in coming in for the weekend or even meeting up
>>> with me tomorrow email me and let me know. I have GPS tags for the lake
>>> and could easily come out Friday night to meet up with folks at the
>>> trail head.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>>> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Re: Anyone in the Ontario Canada area up for a New Years bush run? Trip Report!
 

Sounds like a very interesting time!
I'll have to try to look at the pics from work - if I go in the rest of the week. We
got sent home at 1130 due to the so called blizzard conditions (it was cold, it was
slick, and it was snowing, but I wouldnt have called it a blizzard).


On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:52:34 -0500, Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>>I got out for a couple days for the New Year and cruised around some
>>bush trails.
>>
>>It was really icy with almost no snow. Sorry I missed meeting up with
>>Peter, I will change my email list to CC folks instead of BCC them
>>because lots of folks, even my wife at home (she was checking email)
>>could have given directions.
>>
>>My wife came up by bus Sat. so we stayed until Monday and had a nice
>>time. There were lots of ATVs and other 4x4's on the trails and a few
>>'big' logging trucks. The loggers run on CB so we don't have any
>>conflicts on the trails, we all talk before heading out.
>>
>>The one trail head I was aiming for was closed due to loggers collapsing
>>a bridge less than 2 miles from the lake I was aiming for. Grr..., so
>>drove around 4 hours to the other trail head which didn't really hurt my
>>feelings, it was all bush roads. Had a nice time. Had to dodge some
>>big white tail deer, but missed them, the ditch and a photo, 3 times....
>>
>>Got a couple of a beaver working away and a couple of the trails.
>>
>>The trails were glass ice and almost impossible to walk on, so the
>>pucker factor was sure up there in a few spots. One place in particular
>>my wife was commenting on the wicked angle it is running at made me
>>laugh as I pointed to the dent in the ditch beside me and said oh, see
>>that hole, the CJ made that a couple years ago when it flipped into
>>there. See where the nice logger used his skidder to plow me a parking
>>spot when he dragged it out. LOL!
>>
>>Coming home was a bit of a trip. It was -10C and freezing rain. The
>>stuff was freezing onto the windshield before the wipers could get it
>>off. Even with my big heater blower motor I only had a hole about the
>>size of a letter envelope to see out of for a couple hours.
>>
>>I have posted photos over on alt.binaries.pictures.autos.4x4 and also at
>>Sony's Imagestation.
>>
>> http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4288090527
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>Mike Romain wrote:
>>>
>>> I am heading out tomorrow, Jan 1 2004 for 4 or 5 days south of the
>>> Bancroft area north of Kingston Ontario.
>>>
>>> Short notice, sorry but I just got the ok last night to go.
>>>
>>> I will be running logging/snowmobile trails that are dual/multi use and
>>> have permission to stay in a few hunt camps in the area.
>>>
>>> The trails are suited for any stock or better 4x4 and there is excellent
>>> ice fishing or winter fishing anyway.
>>>
>>> Running on 'winter' logging skidder roads can be fun. Those suckers
>>> have 6' tall tires and can make 'interesting' trails. LOL!
>>>
>>> For those that have been along before, I am heading for the Whitefish
>>> lake area where we summer camp. The loggers are working that end of the
>>> trail this year. I plan on being within a 2 mile radius of that lake in
>>> one of the camps.
>>>
>>> If anyone is interested in coming in for the weekend or even meeting up
>>> with me tomorrow email me and let me know. I have GPS tags for the lake
>>> and could easily come out Friday night to meet up with folks at the
>>> trail head.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>>> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's