Eagle Valley / Sicamous Conditions 2020-2021

[Bnorth]

Terrible snowfall down here, way to much! This keeps up and I'll be forced to pick up that new 175" Turbo !! Billdozer, you in on a new sled, I can get $100.00 off if we buy two!! Such a deal!

Gonna get in trouble with that unit, best leave it at the dealer!

 

[BillDozer]

Yup if you can get a Snow Bunje with the deal

Terrible snowfall down here, way to much! This keeps up and I'll be forced to pick up that new 175" Turbo !! Billdozer, you in on a new sled, I can get $100.00 off if we buy two!! Such a deal!

 

[Shermanator]

Gonna get in trouble with that unit, best leave it at the dealer!

Hell, I get in trouble with my snowblower and at my age gotta try what I can! I'll see about the bunje Billy!

 

[ferniesnow]

Hell, I get in trouble with my snowblower and at my age gotta try what I can! I'll see about the bunje Billy!

I was in trouble with my snow blower all day today. Did 6 driveways and all had different circumstances as to why I was doing each one. Two of them, I did twice today. It has been a long day and the conversation with Mr. Hart and some coke in another 30 minutes will fix my day.

 

[ferniesnow]

First day finished and it was a great day, albeit, a little different. The SKIDOO camera at Owl's is just about bang on. Notice that I said just about! I'll get to that later. Logging trucks parked in the Owl's Head staging area and heavy equipment on the Owls FSR road. Good thing it was a Saturday and just the very enthusiastic were working as trucks on the road up was not a problem as they were in the parking lot undoing chains. That was a little scary to begin the day!! First thing I noticed was that my radio didn't have an RR31 which is the channel for Owls'. When I got my radio, all there were were 22 channels designated RR. I will go into the shop on Monday and get some more channels added! Talked to a nice young driver and he informed me he was the last one down today. That in itself was a relief. Up we go on scan. No big incident just a couple hunters. Parked at 6.5 and unloaded. It was a road ride all day with bumper to mostly over the bumper all day. Ditches and cut blocks were taboo. The road into Owls' was blocked with big nuggets which I have never saw last year (obviously they were covered with snow). The first meadow was full of creek drainage and willows and I was not going to go through there carving on WOT. So we decided to continue down the Owls' FSR and over to the Blue Lake corner. It got deeper the higher we went but the block off bolders seemed to also get bigger and one the other side in the cut blocks it was just going to be a disaster. Early season alright!! As we got higher towards Blue, the snow was always over the bumper and coming up over the windshield but in most places it was about knee cap height. Flat light and no tracks (we were the first ones since the last snow fall) made the logging road hard to find in many instances but we persevered and made it. That big black cloud in the pictures sort of caught up to up and the trail was more difficult to pick out and all day I had been looking at the nuggets in the ditches and I did not want any part of them. Eventually, we turned around and came back down to some awesome Cod tacos and some beer at Borthers. All in all, a great first day and we will wait for another dump before trying it again. A couple of moose moving around, lots of rabbit tracks, some marten (actually watch one for the better part of 10 minutes), and the occasional lynx tracks.

 

[335i]

U guys able to park at the bottom yet?

 

[struglin]

U guys able to park at the bottom yet?

Logging on all three roads, queest, owls and blue so need to bring a radio and chains

 

[ferniesnow]

U guys able to park at the bottom yet?

Small pull out at 6.5 km up Owl's. Radio and chains would be ideal and no trailers.

 

[mattalind]

Question for everyone on this board, please be respectful. My gf and I are from Northern Manitoba. Each winter we take a sled vacation somewhere, this year the plan is Sicamous as she's never been. We plan on doing a zero contact trip from MB to BC (hauling all of our groceries with us, staying in a private cabin, not travelling into town, bringing our own fuel for sleds, any fuel we put in our truck would be at a 'pay at the pump' station) so we remain safe and don't put others at jeopardy. The way we have our trip planned I'd say there's pretty much zero chance we pick anything up on the way, or give anything to anybody else as we won't be seeing anyone other than at the stage area or on the mountain. We plan on staying at our cabin rental for a week.


I've heard rumors of people with SK plates getting their vehicles vandalized as out of province people aren't welcomed. Is this true? I will do everything in my power to make this a zero contact trip for the safety of myself and everyone around me but if there's a good chance my rig gets destroyed while parked at the staging area I'm thinking I'd stay home instead.


Rumors of vandalizing true that anyone knows of?

 

[maxwell]

Question for everyone on this board, please be respectful. My gf and I are from Northern Manitoba. Each winter we take a sled vacation somewhere, this year the plan is Sicamous as she's never been. We plan on doing a zero contact trip from MB to BC (hauling all of our groceries with us, staying in a private cabin, not travelling into town, bringing our own fuel for sleds, any fuel we put in our truck would be at a 'pay at the pump' station) so we remain safe and don't put others at jeopardy. The way we have our trip planned I'd say there's pretty much zero chance we pick anything up on the way, or give anything to anybody else as we won't be seeing anyone other than at the stage area or on the mountain. We plan on staying at our cabin rental for a week.


I've heard rumors of people with SK plates getting their vehicles vandalized as out of province people aren't welcomed. Is this true? I will do everything in my power to make this a zero contact trip for the safety of myself and everyone around me but if there's a good chance my rig gets destroyed while parked at the staging area I'm thinking I'd stay home instead.


Rumors of vandalizing true that anyone knows of?

Not true. There was one isolated incident in Revel stoke with a spray painted license plate. That's it, you have nothing to worry about. Sicamous area is a great place full of great respectful people.

 

[mattalind]

I’ve been to Siccy lots and have always found the exact same thing. Great town great people great riding. Just wanted to see how bad it’s been, if bad at all. Thanks.

 

[tex78]

I’ve been to Siccy lots and have always found the exact same thing. Great town great people great riding. Just wanted to see how bad it’s been, if bad at all. Thanks.

Come on out

If some tin foil hat wearing people say something, tell them we have nothing with out you the tourist coming


There are a few old farts that are bord and don't have jobs , but not to the vandalism point

 

[Shermanator]

Come on out

If some tin foil hat wearing people say something, tell them we have nothing with out you the tourist coming


There are a few old farts that are bord and don't have jobs , but not to the vandalism point

I think we refer to that as retired, and your no where old enough for that!

 

[tex78]

I think we refer to that as retired, and your no where old enough for that!

Didn't want to point fingers at you or Bill lol

Although he's retired, but not really with the legion lol

 

[BillDozer]

Going back to work so I can have a day off Tex

Didn't want to point fingers at you or Bill lol

Although he's retired, but not really with the legion lol

 

[Shermanator]

Queest ride with Billdozer! As usual, another adventure, from start to finish. We had to unload at 9.5 km, the roadcrews up there have cleared a nice big spot. Road was crap mud from bottom to about 4km and then turned to ice/snow but pretty decent. What wasn't decent was the huge pile of crap someone left right where you unload, and I don't mean garbage, I mean a pile of sh#$ !! Just when you think there's hope for humanity someone drops a load right where everyone parks and walks around, looks like humanity is still doomed. Seemed to be a pretty good snow on the trail in, until the last 2km when there had definitely been more than allotted 75, it was whooped!! Lots of snow off the trail but also lots of iffy spots, we hit the cabin just in time for it to sock in, as usual for us. We headed down to the wee lake, it was beat to death as were most spots we went to. I did find a pristine spot just off the lake that no one had been on, it was tough enough going down hill let alone up, 2-3' of beauty snow, but nasty spots around any tree you got close to. We were taking a break enjoying a wilderness moment when about 12 sleds showed up, and several of them chose 73' as a reasonable distance to start doing donuts, the sleds of course having the loudest cans available on the market. Billdozer even gave them the " wave off" sign which was like bait to one of them and he got in close and personnel to do a couple more donuts, fricking morons! We decided to head down and check out some of the "secret" spots, along with a couple of new logging roads that were just punched in. After that we did a return to the "scene of the crime" where I got my quad stuck a few weeks ago, much easier going on the sled, a ton of snow down further, until I could go no further and deja vu struck, couldn't get turned around!!! Needless to say between Billdozer trying a turn around about a half mile up the trail and me by my lonesome, it was another good hour and a half before we got mobile and managed to get back to the trucks right at dark. That's where the adventure continued for Billy, someone dicked with the ramp on his truck, it was okay when he left, but when he hit it to load the sled it all folded up and he ran into a wall!! Don't know why someone would feel they had to move his ramp or do whatever, there was a ton of room. However, surrounding both of our trucks were 4 other trucks jammed right in beside ours, and they all had those funny plates on them!! Obviously the same crew that chose to harass us up at the cabin, it never ends!!! Some great spots still untouched in those secret areas, started snowing pretty good when we were leaving, trail is really gonna be toast after this weekend, enjoy!!!

 

[snopro]

Queest ride with Billdozer! As usual, another adventure, from start to finish. We had to unload at 9.5 km, the roadcrews up there have cleared a nice big spot. Road was crap mud from bottom to about 4km and then turned to ice/snow but pretty decent. What wasn't decent was the huge pile of crap someone left right where you unload, and I don't mean garbage, I mean a pile of sh#$ !! Just when you think there's hope for humanity someone drops a load right where everyone parks and walks around, looks like humanity is still doomed. Seemed to be a pretty good snow on the trail in, until the last 2km when there had definitely been more than allotted 75, it was whooped!! Lots of snow off the trail but also lots of iffy spots, we hit the cabin just in time for it to sock in, as usual for us. We headed down to the wee lake, it was beat to death as were most spots we went to. I did find a pristine spot just off the lake that no one had been on, it was tough enough going down hill let alone up, 2-3' of beauty snow, but nasty spots around any tree you got close to. We were taking a break enjoying a wilderness moment when about 12 sleds showed up, and several of them chose 73' as a reasonable distance to start doing donuts, the sleds of course having the loudest cans available on the market. Billdozer even gave them the " wave off" sign which was like bait to one of them and he got in close and personnel to do a couple more donuts, fricking morons! We decided to head down and check out some of the "secret" spots, along with a couple of new logging roads that were just punched in. After that we did a return to the "scene of the crime" where I got my quad stuck a few weeks ago, much easier going on the sled, a ton of snow down further, until I could go no further and deja vu struck, couldn't get turned around!!! Needless to say between Billdozer trying a turn around about a half mile up the trail and me by my lonesome, it was another good hour and a half before we got mobile and managed to get back to the trucks right at dark. That's where the adventure continued for Billy, someone dicked with the ramp on his truck, it was okay when he left, but when he hit it to load the sled it all folded up and he ran into a wall!! Don't know why someone would feel they had to move his ramp or do whatever, there was a ton of room. However, surrounding both of our trucksView attachment 230135View attachment 230136View attachment 230137View attachment 230138 were 4 other trucks jammed right in beside ours, and they all had those funny plates on them!! Obviously the same crew that chose to harass us up at the cabin, it never ends!!! Some great spots still untouched in those secret areas, started snowing pretty good when we were leaving, trail is really gonna be toast after this weekend, enjoy!!!

There are times its embarrassing to be in this sport Sherm. Please don't judge all red plates the same. There are idiots everywhere it seems.

 

[Shermanator]

There are times its embarrassing to be in this sport Sherm. Please don't judge all red plates the same. There are idiots everywhere it seems.

I don't bud! I was born in Calgary, almost embarrassing to admit that. Some of our best friends were born and raised in Alberta, greatest folks we've ever known. As with most things, only takes a few to leave a bad taste in people's mouths!

 

[BillDozer]

Tumbleweeds in this forum no one riding these days?

 

[struglin]

Where’s everyone parking up queest? Room to turn around?

Anyone hit eagles yet??