The Bushman Chronicles!

Awesome trip there Bushman!Thanks for letting us in on it also.How does your new harness carry the load?
Safe travels my friend....

 

No idea yet......still setting it up (The JAYJAYBRECONUK Patrol Yoke) . The current SORD-AUS yoke though is very well made and very comfortable.

 

I am probably in the early stages of LGS. The doctor want tell me I am 100% because I don't have enough
symptoms. I am still working , but my speech has been going down hill for about a year now.

 

sorry to hear about this Brother......

not sure how i can help but feel free to get a hold of me anytime.

 

My PM box is there as well myfreind.

 

May 19/2019, mixed sun/clouds, 20 Deg Celsius, "The Full Synthetic Oil Change, Sea To Sky Hwy Drive, Drive Up BrandyWine Forest Service Road, Hike To The Top And Spook Two ATV'ers Tour"

Spent 20 minutes draining out the old syn oil, and refilling with fresh Redline 5W40 Full Synthetic and a new oil filter. Good for another 50,000 KM's with filter changes every 7 - 9000kms, plus top up.



ripped up the Sea2Sky Hwy..........music for the winding ocean side road was:





got North of Squamish and Cheakamus region.....


Black Tusk mountain across the valley





Driving up the Brandywine FSR, to about 750 meters where I stopped. Massive jagged peak across another valley.


loaded up with the new JayJayBreconUK Patrol Yoke plus essentials, like bear spray for seasoning my lunch and a broken butter knife held in by a rubber band

after texting my location stats to @Reno Lewis, I walked up the old logging road. Slight breeze kept me fairly comfortable and the bugs away....(i had forgotten the bug dope)

dense thick massive forests. This side was logged decades ago and replanted heavily.

there is literally no getting thru these woods, they are so thick.

gear shot. Bear spray and extra bear bangers and screamers in a PR radio/battery pouch

right side an extensive GSW/Bleed kit, TQ, plus boo boo stuff, packed into a Blue Force Gear Trauma Kit Now! pouch. Small SORD pouch beside it holds the signal strobe. Esee Imlay in the molle grid. The sharp toy on the webbing belt is the Bark River Vehement Knives MACVSOG tribute knife. Screaming sharp and stabby.

already running into bear scat.

clouds rolling in, but not for long.

super steep old logging road.


water source. Lots of little creeks along this route though, all year round (know thy area well)
looking across the valley to the other side, just starting to get logged

looking up at the still snow covered peaks and high UV index sky


still snow on my route lower down.

I was soaking the mesh scarf in this ice cold stream when i heard a couple ATV's riding up the FSR spur. I walked out onto the spur and waved, scared the crap out them two rides as i walked across the spur road and into the forest and disappeared.

skunk cabbage blooming
at the 860 meter mark now, huge veins of cliffs and fallen boulders started to do the landscape

 

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Annnnd I'm in Homer Simpson- gahhhhhh mode again. where's your hat?

 

Bush-Wick-A

 

another good one there Bushy. Do you ever see any grouse in your travels?

 

Can't speak for Bushy, but I actually just encountered a fairly large grouse on my hike a few days ago. First one I've seen around here.

 

Mostly small ones. Cornish hen sized. Never seen a big grouse like some of you hunt .

 

We don't have any Grouse here in East Texas. Thought you might have some up there.

 

these are all i see up here.........

 

That is really cool Bushy. Cool looking birds. The guys on another forum hunt them in Idaho and Alaska. Thanks for the pictures.

 

that pair of Ruffed Grouse was from my Cypress Mountain hike awhile back.

I literally could grabbed them by the necks and stuffed them into a webbing pouch. Dumb stupid birds have no clue.

 

Awesome trip reports as always brother.

You are always up in some nice country.

 

DOOOOOD! your the one with amazing lakes and fishing! Ya i'm jealous of your trips!

post up the recent pics Brother-7!

 

May 26, 2019, Sunny, Simpson's Clouds, 26 deg C, "The Drive Up Insane Steep FSR's, Reach The Skookum Creek Penstock Dam, Load Test The Webbing, Hike Up A Steep Old Road, Haze A Bear & An Unknown Animal Tour"

Woke up early at 0730 or so to this lovable goofy cat just staring at me.



fell back asleep and woke up an hour later, to the same lovable goofy cat just staring at me........LOL



fueled up with leftover cheese filled pasta and italian coffee and hit the Hwy.

Drove up the Mamquam FSR today, following my buddy in his Crew Crummy truck for a bit. Way too many cars parked on the FSR, way too many people on the road. (Some event going on - but this is an active haul industrial road 24/7). Buddy had enough of idiots on the FSR, so he flipped on his Whelen sirens and lights (Crew Crummy/Industrial off highway ambulance) and I followed suit with my rooftop ambers. Parting the Idiot Sea, we flew down the road for about 5 km, before we got clear of the chaos. He left up another road and I carried on. Boy are those people going to be surprised when a 100,000 Lb off highway logging truck comes down the FSR with a full load.........his trucks take up 10' wide of road.

On And up.....18 KM in so far. Letting the truck cool down after an insane long steep sustained climb in first gear. The RedLine 5W40 full syn oil was working hard and my temps barely budged, but i like to do a cool down every 5km or so.



while letting the truck idle down, I took a pic of the CR2.5 , I quite like this little blade. The sheath is ok, but the balde is quite the little EDC scalpel.




carrying on and up. And up. And up


nice long 1000' drop down the embankment and over the edge way down to the valley floor.



just a few of the still snow covered mountains around me.


relatively fresh (last 6 months or so) rock/debris slide on the lava flow (comes from Pemberton all the way down to Squamish, about 200 km long, ranging from 2km to 5km wide x 500 - 1500 meters DEEP
same lave flow


water pipeline below the trunk line

getting
steep again.

almost 1500 feet drop. narrow road at this point. Makes you pucker real tight
the massive lava flow


stopped at the watering hole to restock the canteens. Nothing like glacier melt ice that flows thru several dozen KM's of deep moss. I LOVE these SADF 2L canteens.....HOWEVER.......there is a huge weight penalty when you fill both of them and put them on your webbing.....4 Liters of water = 9lbs. For some arid areas , I will use these......but mostly I use my 1Liter Nalgene canteens



lave flow to the left. You can barely see an old logging FSR on the top. To the right is a air vent J tube for the water pipeline.

fug me......you are basically dead of you go off this road or it collapses.
the massive water pipe line that feeds the turbines 10+ km away and 2000 or so feet down

 

more loading! gotta keep up with Bro @Se7eN will get the rest up Monday!