On Canada Day myself and friend went on a ride to the top of the world. I found the road on my BC backroad map atlas. The road was a BC Hydro gravel road which gave access to radio towers at the tree line in the BC coastal mountains. One month ealier my firend and I tried to get to the radio towers, but there was still lots of snow 3km from the towers and a storm moved in and we boogied. Beaten I knew I was coming back in a month so we tried again and the results were the best view I have ever seen dirtbiking and the second best view I can remember seeing in my life.

Rick and I started way down in the valley bottom (1000ft above sea level) and road 16km up a very steep, rutted gravel road. I knew the view was going to be awesome, but when we suddenly popped out above the trees I almost fell off my bike with Ah! The radio towers are 6400ft above sea level indicated on my backroad map. 6400ft isn't crazy high, but when the valley sits at 1000ft and you ride 5500ft up it seems like your on the top of the world. We then hiked another 300 vertical feet up to a rock point that gave us a 360' view like nothing else I've seen before biking. The only hitch was the mosquitos were terrible. I've worked up north and delt with bugs before, but even these mosquitos were driving me nuts after an hour up there. We would have stayed for the whole sunset, but I had 50 bites by then and Rick is an inexperienced rider and worried about riding in the dark. Below are just some the pics I took. I'm going to frame a few.

There is another radio tower 75km south on the edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park. You can see it way up in the mountains from the highway. In two weeks I'm going to ride to that tower and maybe hike 3km more to the Black Tusk in the park at 7700ft. (too much snow right now)

For views, riding in BC kicks butt!!!!!!!!!

 

nice! looks like fun

 

I just get a "?" where there should be a photo. If I try to open the photo in a new window, I get"


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You don't have permission to access /photos2026/9/45/51/7/74/0/74075145909_0_ALB.jpg on this server".

Bummer - they sound great.

 

Great shots man! Is that up around Squamish area?
It doesn't look like the KodakGallery supports "remote image hosting" so here's a link directly to the photos.
Also, these photo links won't open in Firefox for whatever reason (error 403 - access forbidden).
Try these links in "cough cough" - Internet Explorer and it should work.

http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...5909_0_ALB.jpg
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The permissions thing only working for IE is just plain lame. IE is not possible for me since I don't run Winblows. My recommend would be that if you want to share photos, find a photo hosting service that has a clue and doesn't block non-Microsoft web browsers.

 

I'm using IE and they're not working for me either.

 

Hope you don't mind greenmachine, I copied your pics to my server so everyone could view em.
Just helping out a BC bruddah.

 

[sm=thanx.gif] Now I can see them. Sweet pics, greenmachine. BC and WA terrain is very similar-especially the WA Northern Cascades. They're more rugged, like the mtns in your pics. Let's see more.

 

Wow, great looking country. I wonder if Kawi would buy this pic.

 

Thanks Kawi Kawi - very nice shots indeed!