April 9/05 Nice Spring Day.
This is the first time we've tried to load the bikes into the back of my new little truck. Ryan had to work so it was just Warren and I. Probably just as well, three bikes would not fit. But then Warren could always truck his own bike so problem solved. Here we are, loaded up and ready to go. That's my old Honda 250 on the driver's side.
This side showes Warren's even older Honda 250. With just one bike in the back I can close the tailgate by putting the bike in on an angle. With two bikes we need to leave the gate down. The wheels are on the bed floor but they stick out a few inches.
We parked out at the highway by the Chief's lower parking lot and rode in on the Mamquam Main. Where the Indian Arm Pass road splits off the gate is closed but bikes can get around it with no problem. Several miles up the road before the actual pass summit the road has been wiped out by a slide. Massive tonnes of rock and dirt and logs have carved a path down the slopes from above.
Here on some bikers on the other side. We figure we can get over the bolders but will do it on a day when we have time to ride all the way out to salt water at the head of Indian Arm.
Looking back toward our bikes. Quite a mess. Many logging and fire roads are blocked by slides now from the heavy rains of early winter.
There is a spot up a steep spur that give a rare view that looks to the north west straight up the Upper Squamish Valley.
Same view, slightly different angle. Those mountains at the far end are perhaps 50 miles or so away. You need to be there.
Warren took some pictures of while out on his own. They are a fascinating scene of rock formations leading into Freeman Lake.
