JP7
Likes Canadian Mudbaths
With the best of intentions on doing the 'healthy' thing paddling around this afternoon, I strapped the kayak in the Raptor and took off west toward the mountains. 2 minutes before Ghost lake where I usually play around, the turn off to Waiporus came up - Waiporus has an extensive set of trails that would take two weeks to fully travel.
Fuckit, hang a right, and off to the trails. The road in is a 30 minute 'shake yer teeth outta yer mouth' ride that is full of 6"-12" deep potholes. Fast or slow you can get just about any vehicle sideways there, including the Raptor several times.
My revised plan was to see if Ghost River was full enough to play in the kayak. It wasn't. Oh well, since I'm here...
I took several videos on the way out (thought just occurred to me after I had most of my fun), but wished I had a camera person to take a few action shots. Flying over rock berms sideways would have made a good entry in this months contest.
Ghost river is not your typical wheeling terrain - its rocks. Lots of them. Much of it is a dry creekbed after they dammed the area off and diverted the water elsewhere - but its about a half mile wide creekbed that goes on for miles! For the most part, the rocks are well settled, and safe to travel at moderate (to stupid) speeds as I've discovered.
Again, I have not gotten a mic for the camera yet, so turn the volume off!
Part of the way out...
FILE0059.MOV‏ - YouTube
And the final part of the way out...
FILE0060.MOV‏ - YouTube
The only carnage I experienced, other than some steering noise and brake chatter, was a broken passenger side mirror. I clipped a tree branch at 50 and the mirror didn't like closing that fast. I may post up pics later, and see if any tech's can help - it still functions, just doesn't sit back in the normal position very well.
All in all, it was a good 5 hours spent out in the great outdoors. Never untied the kayak, but there's always tomorrow!
Fuckit, hang a right, and off to the trails. The road in is a 30 minute 'shake yer teeth outta yer mouth' ride that is full of 6"-12" deep potholes. Fast or slow you can get just about any vehicle sideways there, including the Raptor several times.
My revised plan was to see if Ghost River was full enough to play in the kayak. It wasn't. Oh well, since I'm here...
I took several videos on the way out (thought just occurred to me after I had most of my fun), but wished I had a camera person to take a few action shots. Flying over rock berms sideways would have made a good entry in this months contest.
Ghost river is not your typical wheeling terrain - its rocks. Lots of them. Much of it is a dry creekbed after they dammed the area off and diverted the water elsewhere - but its about a half mile wide creekbed that goes on for miles! For the most part, the rocks are well settled, and safe to travel at moderate (to stupid) speeds as I've discovered.
Again, I have not gotten a mic for the camera yet, so turn the volume off!
Part of the way out...
FILE0059.MOV‏ - YouTube
And the final part of the way out...
FILE0060.MOV‏ - YouTube
The only carnage I experienced, other than some steering noise and brake chatter, was a broken passenger side mirror. I clipped a tree branch at 50 and the mirror didn't like closing that fast. I may post up pics later, and see if any tech's can help - it still functions, just doesn't sit back in the normal position very well.
All in all, it was a good 5 hours spent out in the great outdoors. Never untied the kayak, but there's always tomorrow!