• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

Summer riding in BC and the Kootenays

trevor

trevor

Forum Guru
Past Site Supporter
Been on a few trips in the past couple of months exploring my beautiful province. Dodged some smoke last week with some buddies. Thought you guys would enjoy some pics,
Cheers

So we left last Sunday heading to catch an 11am ferry and I was riding my bmw...as we approached to booths to pay my rear wheel sounded like my youth with hockey cards in my spokes....turns out I was loosing air quickly.
I pulled over instead of entering the booth line up.....
Here is what I saw...lol


I had to think quick...go home and get another bike? Then I remembered my buddy Scott that has a mobile motorcycle mechanic business just happened to be at my neighbours when I left my house....I called him..."Scott, I gotta ask a huge favour...." I explained what happened and asked him if he would go into my garage and take the tire off my GT and bring it to the ferry terminal and install it on my bmw....he said "sure"!
30 min later he showed up in his truck....keep in mind this was a Sunday....
After all was said and done we managed to catch the noon ferry, losing only one hour! Wow....what a lifesaver! Scott and his partner are regulars at my Friday Afternoon Safety meeting.




We took a little "smoke" break outside Hope BC (Where Rambo was filmed) at the famous Landslide





We stayed at the Cedars motel I usually stay in in Princeton BC...short day of 300kms...but we did start late.



Yep it was pretty smokey....fires were a couple of hundred kms from us



All quite at the station...off fighting for people's homes....so sad.

 
Day two we headed to Revelstoke...an amazing ski and snowmobile town that used to be sleepy in the summer time but has grown into a mountain bike destination....lots of dual sport riding too. And my since my teenage years, friend Gary's home.
This was the worst of the smoke along 5A...one of my favorite roads in BC from Merritt to Kamloops...


This is a short cut I take to avoid the hwy running through Kamloops...12kms of dirt road....usually hard packed but you do have to watch for ranchers moving their horses around...



In Revelstoke I booked us in at a friend's lodge called Peaks Lodge....he was newly divorced around 2015 in Stratford Ontario when he decided to change his life....and did he ever! He had a successful Real estate business and he sold and moved across the country to be an Inn Keeper in a small mountain town.
And then in 2017 a recently widowed woman stayed at his lodge with her daughters. A few weeks later she left a wonderful review on facebook of her stay at the lodge. They started chatting on Facebook and decided to meet...again.
6 years later she moved herself and her daughters from Alberta to Revy. Both there adult children work and live at the lodge...I have met the kids and they are all wonderful humans.
My buddy Pat the innkeeper




We got some much needed rain...the thunder and lightning remined my of home in Ontario...funny that in Victoria I can count on one hand how many times I've heard thunder in my 19 years there.

I'm planning on a winter trip there and Pat has a snowmobile to rent.
His pub wasn't open Monday when we were there but he served us up pints anyway then gave me the keys to his truck to go into town for dinner.
Me and my buddy Greg having some fun


We stopped at my buddy Gary's garage ...he was joining us for the rest of the trip....this is a Japan only KZ750...he has ana amazing collection....he even raced AMA sidecars in the late 70s early 70s...he was the "monkey....lol

 
Sounds like agreat trip Trevor. How far east/south are you guys getting this years? I was thinking I need a day ride up through the parks and check out the new TCH construction.
 
Sandy said:
Sounds like agreat trip Trevor. How far east/south are you guys getting this years? I was thinking I need a day ride up through the parks and check out the new TCH construction.
Click to expand...

We stayed in Kaslo for a couple of days, then headed south and west on number 3....
 
Always cool see photos from road trips & the stories behind them.
Seems you know a lot a people in every province.
 
So Tuesday we woke up to pouring rain....and I put a rainsuit on for the first time this year in 18,000kms...lol
We left Revelstoke for The Woodbury Resort just outside Balfour...about 40kms north of beautiful Nelson
Not a long day at only 214kms...but another ferry...and rain...We stopped in Nakusp for gas then headed on to 31a...another favorite road that leads to Kaslo where we loaded up on meats and cheeses etc at an awesome old time butcher there...then across the street for some wine and beer to take to the resort.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Rev...2m2!1d-116.9059346!2d49.7751128!3e0?entry=ttu


I came across this little resort on Lake Kootenay a few weeks ago while traveling solo...stayed in one of there little chalets and loved it...nice little pool and and beach...even some caves to explore.





Our dinner for the evening



On our day off we decided to rent a pontoon boat....that was fun!





 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

trevor
Dual Sport riding in the Kootenays BC
Replies
7
Views
54
trevor
trevor
trevor
Victoria BC to Woodstock Ontario
2
Replies
36
Views
570
Eli69
Eli69
trevor
Trip through BC
Replies
15
Views
2K
Carter Turk
Carter Turk
trevor
I have twins in the garage
Replies
19
Views
550
trevor
trevor
JohnnyL
JohnnyL's Cafe Carb Problems Please Help!
Replies
12
Views
941
roeme
roeme
Back
Top