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Tokin' BearsChilliwack areaAugust 22/04 Written by Greg After BCTL500 posted that he was heading to Chilliwack for some exploring, a few others and I decided to tag along. BCTL500, Brian O, Stevo, and I met up at the designated meeting spot, a restaurant on Chilliwack Lake Road, where Michael was also present but without his quad. He was going to Herrling, but just wanted to meet us for breakfast. After breakfast, the four of us headed to the Chilliwack - Foley Lake FSR, and BCTL500 led us around the trails. The rain was coming down pretty good, but we all had raingear. We got onto a dirtbike trail called "Just a Few Tokin' Bears" and threaded our way through the trees; it was tight and off-camber, slow-going with multi-point turns, just how we like it. BCTL was riding his very fast sport quad, which isn't really suited for this type of trail, so he patiently waited for us at the trailhead. "We'll only be a few minutes; we're just going to check the trail out." Haha! We worked our way down the trail, and got to a narrow, off-camber shelf road. We decided to walk on ahead; once we committed to this section there was no turning back. Brian O and Stevo reported back that there was a really bad section ahead, so we elected to turn around before we got into trouble. Since the trail was so narrow, we reversed back a bit over some cribbing, then Brian O and Stevo used their winches to help turn their quads around. My winch was still sitting at home, so a bit of manpower got me turned around. This little exercise took several minutes. On the way back up the trail, I got hung up on a stubborn rock that wouldn't let me by; a push from the others freed me. By the time we met up with BCTL500 at the trailhead, it had been 30 minutes. Stevo said he was overheating; I thought he was talking about his quad, but then he pulled off his raingear and I realized he was talking about himself.     We hit the mainline again, and started heading up towards a viewpoint. It was all socked in, and we ended up turning around and stopping for lunch at a wide section. On the way back down, we checked out a little side trail; it ended up being another tight little dirtbike trail that twisted through the forest. We had to use a hatchet to chop out some deadfall as nobody had brought a saw. Near the beginning of the trail I didn't notice a waterbar and got a couple of feet of air beneath my quad as I flew over it. The trail finally dumped us back onto the mainline a few switchbacks above where we started from. We checked out another off-shoot that ended rather quickly at a logged cut; Brian O cut a corner a bit too early, hit a little berm and launched his quad into the air before landing on the road surface; I bet he was pretty surprised.  The finally stopped, and we rested at a gravel pit for a bit; everyone but me took runs at the hillclimbs, and we watched some dirtbikers play around as well. This has nothing to do with me being a chicken; I just didn't think that my little 280cc engine was powerful enough to climb the hill, and I didn't want to have to reverse down from near the top and risk flipping my quad (again).         We headed back to our trucks to check out a trail that led away from the parking lot; to our surprise Michael was there with his quad, along with two friends with ATCs. Apparently the water at Herrling had risen a bit too high for their liking. Michael's quad didn't want to start, so he pull-started it with one of the trikes. After a bit of adjustment, he was able to get it started on its own. 
 We checked out the trail that Dave and started to explore one dark January night; it turned out to be an overgrown shelf road along the valley that just ended after a few kilometers. Nice trail; too bad it was so short. We headed back to our trucks and chatted for about an hour, then finally headed home. |
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