Pics or it didnt happen LOL
Pics or it didnt happen LOL
Well we didn't stop to take too many pics (So I guess it didn't happen lol) the pics we do have My wife took most of them I was too busy driving In a new area to me.
We were in the Badlands in the corner of Southwest Alberta The US border and British Columbia.
We were supposed to head into the East Kootenays in BC, where we usually go on Jeep trips, yet the truck is not fully outfitted with all the lights yet, so I didn't feel comfortable towing My friends off road trailer on logging roads at night Without proper lighting. So last minute we changed our plans and decided to head down to the badlands.
One day we left camp and started exploring, Lots of Baron prairie and lots of gravel mixed in with dirt roads that are flat, some of them run through ranches And Crown land. These are public roads And then you come across these beautiful green valleys, at the top, that is where we found some of the raunchy roads.
The 1st one we found was going down and the sign about Half a mile back said "road washed out" it was a dry slew at the bottom, mostly soft sand on the right side of the road, that rain had washed out and on the left of the washed out road was deep mud ruts, most likely from a tractor and Going down this soft sand road the weight of the power wagon started to eat the road away and pushed you over to the hardened deep mud ruts. With the sway bar disconnected When descending, I was pushed into the Ruts and at 1 point I looked up and I could only see sky through the passenger window. Once I was at the bottom I got out to take a look and see if there was any major rubbing, as there was allot of noise going down. All I could see on top of the inner wheel well that the tires had barley touched By the light dirt and sand scuffs from the Tire.
I did not have offroad pages on, I would have loved to have seen the angles we were at. As this road basically snuck up on us and as I was picking my line and the last thing on my mind was putting it on off road pages or taking photos for that matter.
Another time a little later on our way back to camp we were heading down 1 of the roads to get back to The Valley and there was a historic site On the navigation maps So we knew that was the direction we wanted.
I was going at least 85 To 90 km an hour (it's amazing how the 37's on such a heavy Truck, just eat up the bumps) And on that flat road, We were starting to climb ever so slightly, All of a sudden I couldn't see the horizon anymore and hit a giant Rut and launched the power wagon, at least the 2 front wheels came off the ground My wife said she hit the roof and we landed pretty hard, Needless to say I was told to slow down after lol.
The elevation in that area is amazingly high for where it is It's 5000' above sea level
The only photos and videos we have of that Day It's basically the pretty parts of The Valley and a couple of White tail deer.
My wife has some good video of us climbing up some of the hills and getting to the top of The Valley, also through some really narrow trails, in the bush (where the new PW got it's 1st Pinstripes) it's pretty cool video, when she posts it to YouTube I will edit this and post the link.