Advocate I
- 808
- First Name
- Richard
- Last Name
- Gallant
- Ham/GMRS Callsign
- VE7REJ
- Service Branch
- RCAC (Reserve) 75-00
This was a our 1st trip out as group for this year, and we managed to both get out and get our annual snowflake run in.
One of our member Andrew uses a site called relive to track our routes - these are common trails so no big secrets
Day 1 Relive 'BC Roverlanders - Placer Lake'
Day 1 in explore mode Explore 'BC Roverlanders - Placer Lake'
Day 2 Relive 'Roverlanders - Ashnola Traverse'
Day 2 in explore mode Explore 'Roverlanders - Ashnola Traverse'
The group was pretty much our usual suspect with 2 new members in a very pristine LR Discovery 1, on all season tires with little off-road experience.
We had 3 Discovery's, 2 LR3's, 4 Defenders and 1 Isuzu pickup with a pretty diverse age group 2 to well over 60.
The trip started with the group meeting up just east of Abbotsford BC, a nice 20 minute drive for me over an hour for others. We had a quick drivers meeting and were on the road at around 9:30, under gray skies an few showers pretty much the weather of the day.
From Abbotsford we traveled roughly 2 hours to the eastern edge of Manning Park, a small gas stop called Eastgate. The Discovery's and few others fueled up and we traveled short distance to the Forest Service road (FSR), as per usual I was the back of track keeping our leader Andy updated on any issue and when every one cleared major turns on the trail.
Eastgate, with my Discovery in the foreground
We traveled a short distance up the FSR and stopped for lunch and air down. Andrew found his Discovery was not shifting into low range, this turned out to be a simple lack of use issue and a bit of working got in and out of low.
Lunch stop
The Red Disco very had the hard Hi/Low shift issue
The road to and from our lunch stop on the Ashnola River, it was about hub deep on the far side
The road down was fairly steep and a tad narrow
More to come
One of our member Andrew uses a site called relive to track our routes - these are common trails so no big secrets
Day 1 Relive 'BC Roverlanders - Placer Lake'
Day 1 in explore mode Explore 'BC Roverlanders - Placer Lake'
Day 2 Relive 'Roverlanders - Ashnola Traverse'
Day 2 in explore mode Explore 'Roverlanders - Ashnola Traverse'
The group was pretty much our usual suspect with 2 new members in a very pristine LR Discovery 1, on all season tires with little off-road experience.
We had 3 Discovery's, 2 LR3's, 4 Defenders and 1 Isuzu pickup with a pretty diverse age group 2 to well over 60.
The trip started with the group meeting up just east of Abbotsford BC, a nice 20 minute drive for me over an hour for others. We had a quick drivers meeting and were on the road at around 9:30, under gray skies an few showers pretty much the weather of the day.
From Abbotsford we traveled roughly 2 hours to the eastern edge of Manning Park, a small gas stop called Eastgate. The Discovery's and few others fueled up and we traveled short distance to the Forest Service road (FSR), as per usual I was the back of track keeping our leader Andy updated on any issue and when every one cleared major turns on the trail.
Eastgate, with my Discovery in the foreground
We traveled a short distance up the FSR and stopped for lunch and air down. Andrew found his Discovery was not shifting into low range, this turned out to be a simple lack of use issue and a bit of working got in and out of low.
Lunch stop
The Red Disco very had the hard Hi/Low shift issue
The road to and from our lunch stop on the Ashnola River, it was about hub deep on the far side
The road down was fairly steep and a tad narrow
More to come
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