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Steel Toed Tank
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Extra points if it's 30 kms away from the closest paved road in a remote mountain valley!!
/me raises his hand and earns extra points!
/me raises his hand and earns extra points!
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Raise your hand if there's a picture of you on your GS on Google earth street view!
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Steel Toed Tank
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Haha, just found this picture on the same middle of nowhere mountain logging road of the google street view driver stopping to have a squirt!!
Outstanding Tank, what are the chances of that!
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Sadsak
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Where are your gloves young man? 
( Nice bags)
( Nice bags)
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Very cool. I like the bike, that is one usable motorcycle! those tires look like spitfire S11's, and there you are down a gravel road, nice. I've always been leary of taking the bike down a dirt road but maybe I don't need to be.
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Steel Toed Tank
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On the advice of a memeber here we stopped at a little out of the way hot springs call Luisser Hot Springs after a hard days ride through the mountains.
It was getting late and there was a provincial park at the end of whiteswan lake so we decided to camp there.
The next morning as we headed out we discussed trying to make it on our bikes to 'Top of the World Provincial Park'.
It was over 50kms of mountain gravel logging roads to get there, and we didn't see a single person.
On our way back down to the access road that would lead us to the highway, around km marker 28 we passed the google street view car.
We stopped after it went by and chatted about whether or not we thought he was actually taking pictures or if he was just looknig for a spot to take a snooze or smoke a doobie or something. I mean it was pretty obvious we were on a road that not many even knew existed!
We've been checking every couple of weeks since then hoping to see ourselves on there and last night after we got home I checked and there we were!!
My riding gloves disappeared out of the dryer at a laundromat in Banff the day before. I had washed em after the freezing and raining ride from Jasper to Banff.
Now some pictures.
This the road leading in from the highway to the hot springs.
This is our bikes at Top of the World.
We must have been a funny looking bunch, a supermoto, a UJM and a V-twin cruiser, lol.
This is on the way back from Top of the World, 51kms mile marker.
It was getting late and there was a provincial park at the end of whiteswan lake so we decided to camp there.
The next morning as we headed out we discussed trying to make it on our bikes to 'Top of the World Provincial Park'.
It was over 50kms of mountain gravel logging roads to get there, and we didn't see a single person.
On our way back down to the access road that would lead us to the highway, around km marker 28 we passed the google street view car.
We stopped after it went by and chatted about whether or not we thought he was actually taking pictures or if he was just looknig for a spot to take a snooze or smoke a doobie or something. I mean it was pretty obvious we were on a road that not many even knew existed!
We've been checking every couple of weeks since then hoping to see ourselves on there and last night after we got home I checked and there we were!!
My riding gloves disappeared out of the dryer at a laundromat in Banff the day before. I had washed em after the freezing and raining ride from Jasper to Banff.
Now some pictures.
This the road leading in from the highway to the hot springs.
This is our bikes at Top of the World.
We must have been a funny looking bunch, a supermoto, a UJM and a V-twin cruiser, lol.
This is on the way back from Top of the World, 51kms mile marker.
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Steel Toed Tank
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AZR, the tires are Kenda Challengers.
Really just cheap tires but they had a good rating.
I find riding in gravel is as more about experience than it is about tires.
After this trip I rode for a few weeks in northern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and by the time I got home I had rode over 500kms on gravel.
The longest stretch was around 150kms. It was either ride the 150kms of gravel, or ride 500kms of paved road to get to where I was headed.
The worst part about gravel is passing oncoming traffic and getting pelted by rocks, lol.
Really just cheap tires but they had a good rating.
I find riding in gravel is as more about experience than it is about tires.
After this trip I rode for a few weeks in northern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and by the time I got home I had rode over 500kms on gravel.
The longest stretch was around 150kms. It was either ride the 150kms of gravel, or ride 500kms of paved road to get to where I was headed.
The worst part about gravel is passing oncoming traffic and getting pelted by rocks, lol.
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Steel Toed Tank
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Nope, we made it as far as the info center at the parking lot.
We still had to make it to Fernie that day and it took a little longer than we thought to get up there.
We still had to make it to Fernie that day and it took a little longer than we thought to get up there.
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BassCliff
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Hi,
I'm not riding it, but here's a Google street view of "Jessie" (my GS850G) in the parking lot where I used to park.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mt.+S...wOStXK3M5oAWT46c_CHhqQ&cbp=12,185.39,,0,17.26
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
I'm not riding it, but here's a Google street view of "Jessie" (my GS850G) in the parking lot where I used to park.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mt.+S...wOStXK3M5oAWT46c_CHhqQ&cbp=12,185.39,,0,17.26
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
The road looks in good shape. I was in there a number of years ago, in mid-summer as well, and it was 30km of washboard. How far into the park did you journey? There are some amazing limestone pools and other interesting features in that park, but you have to go in 4 hours or more to get to the best spots. Lots of Grizzly Bear activity in that park.
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Steel Toed Tank
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Basscliff that's awesome! I wonder how many other GSes can be seen on street veiw?
BigD we rode from the highway to Whiteswan Lake, and the next morning after we packed up we headed up to Top of the World.
The picture of our bikes in front of the sign is about as far into the park as we got.
The road looks good in those pictures, but the hardest parts to ride through were the logging landings and anywhere small creeks crossed the road.
The landings were much softer ground than the road and were heavily rutted by large equipment, not to mention all the half buried tree limbs and stumps.
The little rivers along that road were something else.
Some of them come down the hill and flow right across the road surface, some flow along beside the road. One seem to flow under the road with no man made help and at one point, a river flowed down the hill to the road, then flowed down the road itself for a ways!
We've already started planning next summers road trip, we are going to tackle highway 389 in Quebec and the Trans-Labrador Highway.
Everyone and their brother has done the Dalton Highway into Deadhorse, so we opted for something longer, more remote and less forgiving.
I'm excited!!
BigD we rode from the highway to Whiteswan Lake, and the next morning after we packed up we headed up to Top of the World.
The picture of our bikes in front of the sign is about as far into the park as we got.
The road looks good in those pictures, but the hardest parts to ride through were the logging landings and anywhere small creeks crossed the road.
The landings were much softer ground than the road and were heavily rutted by large equipment, not to mention all the half buried tree limbs and stumps.
The little rivers along that road were something else.
Some of them come down the hill and flow right across the road surface, some flow along beside the road. One seem to flow under the road with no man made help and at one point, a river flowed down the hill to the road, then flowed down the road itself for a ways!
We've already started planning next summers road trip, we are going to tackle highway 389 in Quebec and the Trans-Labrador Highway.
Everyone and their brother has done the Dalton Highway into Deadhorse, so we opted for something longer, more remote and less forgiving.
I'm excited!!
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JEEPRUSTY
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Awesome in a George Orwell kind of way.
