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posted September 29, 2005 01:22 PM
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Gold Bridge and up...with pics
So I went on a ride to Gold Bridge yesterday-Holy crap, what a ride! I left my house at 7 am and got home, mildly hypothermic, at 10:30 pm. Long day but a great ride with really nice people.
So I met the guy organizing the ride (KTM LC4) and his buddy (on KLR650, like me) on the North Shore at 7:30 am and we cruised up to Pemberton on the Sea to Sky (pretending we were on tall sportbikes all the while) and met another dude who trucked his XR650 up. Fueled up body and bike and we left town at 10:20am or so.
We went over the Hurley pass and then the East Hurley Rd to Bralorne and a quick side trip to a teeny town of Braden(?), the whole of which is for sale if anyone is in the market.
We then headed down the twisty road to Gold Bridge. The "Welcome to Gold Bridge" sign said that the population is 43- based on this, I think we saw 20% of the townsfolk in and around the Gold Bridge Hotel, where we had lunch.
Fueled by BLTs and beer (and some more gas for the tiny XR tank), we headed east along Carpenter Lake to the Tyaughton Lake Rd, which we took to a fairly wide single track trail up what I think was Eldorado Mountain. We stopped at 2000 m elevation at a cabin maintained by the snowmobile club where there was some residual SNOW(?!) at the base of the cabin from a dump sometime in the last 2 weeks (The guy on the KTM had been up with some friends mountain biking the area 2 weeks ago- that seemed pretty hardcore to me).
Up the trail a ways more was an old mine opening- the mine shaft looked a bit sketchy (seen to the right of the guy wearing the helmet on the pic below) so the guys opted to prospect for treasure out in the open outside of the mine opening while I got a head start back down the hill.
 
We pretty much retraced our route back. The only casualty was a mirror off the bike belonging to the only person who decided that they should really have a second beer at lunch time. Coincidence? Hmmmm. I think that person owes me a beer for helping them pick up the bike instead of taking a picture!
On the way back down, we stopped to take in the Tyax Resort on Tyaughton Lake. I also had to stop to snap this pic from Tyaughton Lake Rd, abover Carpenter Lake, although you really can't tell how amazing the colour of the lake really is from this pic.
The Hurley on the way home was rainy and cold in the fog. When we got back to Pemberton around 7ish, we started to wish that we were all going home in the truck. Pemby to Van in the dark was probably the sketchiest part of the whole ride. We found that the KTM had a tail light problem, as in it didn't have one, and was close to invisible in the dark. In Whistler he tried to fix it but ended up jury-rigging a small flashlight in the lens of the tail light which actually did a very good job most of the way home. It was raining and super dark and foggy to boot in places- at one point we were all 3 single file following the dotted line on the road. Crazy. That said, I thought 3 hrs from Pemby to Van with a fixit stop in Whistler was pretty good time to make. And I appreciated the hot shower I had when I got home more than any other I've ever had, I think.
I'm staying in today.....
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frEEk
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posted September 29, 2005 02:41 PM
damn, now i'm wishing i had gone, despite the weather 
i kinda liek teh idea of buying a town 
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posted September 29, 2005 03:04 PM
Hey Spam! Nice Pictures. That ride was essentially my first real dual sport ride.
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posted September 30, 2005 03:11 PM
Hey! I saw you folks ride through my town(pemberton) that morning! Looks like an awsome adventure, I've only really seen those towns in the winter from snowmobile, gotta try it on two wheels sometime. Another trip you could do is the pemberton-lillooet by way of seton portage. I gotta try that one sometime too!
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posted October 02, 2005 08:31 PM
Seton portage is good but short. You could do it in an afternoon. But do it in summer as it's quite steep!
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posted October 03, 2005 10:27 AM
hey mattieK, didn't realize that you were from up that way... cheers. Great place to have a snowmobile, I'm sure, lots of places to go...
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posted October 04, 2005 06:49 AM
Spam....that looks like a hoot! Thanks for the pics.
But...now Miklos is really dropping even more hints as to the need for a couple KLR's in the shop????
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