Details of Routledge Posted

[tomcycle]

For anyone that cares

Mike D and myself will be leaving from the Tamihi Campground 730 Friday morning Travelling to Chipmunk then up and over the old Bridal Fall route to The Horne of Plenty hope to be there before 9am

Tom

[fastlane]

Fastlane,
I'm meeting Offworlder at the Esso Station just across the Pitt River bridge shortly before 7:30 am on our way to Harrison.
Do you want to join us?
Randy

Thanks Randy - I'll see you there at 7.30am Friday!! Sorry for the delay in replying - I've been arranging my KTM - and it's good to go!!

[offworlder]

Hats off to Wes and everyone involved in putting together the Routledge run 2012 ! Had a great time, and it truly was an adventure !

Left at 6:30 am Friday, was back at 8:00 pm Sat. Shredded 1009 kms, on 990 CCs, in 36 hours - and experienced a whole lot of lunacy, from screamin' fast FSRs, to waist deep stream crossings, to rocky washed out double track, and 2 track trails up and over the mountain top !

Stay tuned for pics and videos of the madness !

[Randual]

Thanks guys, for the guided tour Harrison East to Boston Bar, then Boston Bar to Tulameen!
The Routledge adventure ride was great, and the ride home was casual, but I made good time.
great week-end!
R

[fastlane]

Thanks Wes and the gang for setting up another great weekend riding. The river crossing was a highlight and a lot of fun. Thanks to the caterers too for the amazing food and to the sponsors for the generous prizes. I had a great ride home back via East Harrison Lake. I'll put up photo's later.
Lane

[tomcycle]

Another epic weekend of riding, all dirt all the time.

Friday July 27 2012
Our riding weekend started Mike D and myself left the Tamihi campground 0700
Up the Chilliwack River Valley to Chipmunk on what I can only describe as a perfect morning for riding.
Up Chipmunk Creek FSR
Then down Bridle Falls FSR, a short 25 foot shale slide required to have a single track trail built before we could continue
Meet the rest of the gang at 0900 at Horn of Plenty Harrison
Quick and dusty ride up Harrison East FSR over Kookipi to Nahatlatch FSRs to Boston Bar for a quick gas up
Up Anderson FSR where we split up some did Spius FSR while the others did Utslits FSR
All meet up at the Coquihalla Murray Lake Turn off
Followed the TCT on the East side of the Coq to Lawless FSR
Lawless FSR to Murray Lakes then followed old mining grade down to Tulameen
Tulameen up past the gun club to the top of the range the down the East side of Snow Patch
Finally into Princeton to the Princeton Castle Resort
Signed in for the Routledge Run, which got us a free beer
Total 360 kms
I will post the track when I get it downloaded

Link to map of day one route Chilliwack to Princeton
http://www.dualsportmaps.com/?link=105409
Follow this link you can download directly from this site if you want the gpx of the route

Routledge Day One 2012.JPG


Saturday July 28 2012
0700 start with a hot Breakfast of Bacon and Eggs with lots of fruit and a manwhich for lunch from Salam of La Charcuterie
Finally going to do the 2011 Routledge Route that we got snowed out on
Back up the east side of snowpatch down towards Tulameen but then back up and counterclockwise around Otter Lake
Followed the TCT towards Tulameen but at Otter Lake Park we took a old mining grade West up the mountain followed a bunch of trails and back to Tullameen for fuel and lunch
Now on to the fun part, followed the quad trail on the East side above the highway to Coalmont
Crossed the Tulameen River and followed the old cable tram up to the Coal Mine
Connected to Arrastra Creek FSR to Badger Hill which connects to the Whipsaw Trail Lots of Elevation Gain
South on Whipsaw Trail to Wells Lake and continued on to the Whipsaw FSR
Finally back at Princeton

Well over 350kms would be my guess but will get a track of this loop
GVMC had prepared a steak dinner which was well deserved
More beer and to bed before midnight


Sunday July 28 2012
Another 0700 Start, and a pancake sausage breakfast to get us on our way home

[snackdaddy]

Really enjoyed the saturday ride with you all. Great dinner after the ride too thanks to the organizers

The Coalmont Hotel was a happening place saturday night. Best pick up line of the night used by the locals was..."wow you have all your teeth" If you want to use that line on the locals it is "wow you have all your tooth"

Could someone please post the picture of the moose?

[bobhami]

Here are a few of the moose Mike.

Thanks for the tour and all whom organized this great event.

Bob











...........Mike and moose

[bobhami]

Here are a few more....


Whipsaw trail..





Tulameen store



John



Mmmmmm... Steak night





...more in the photo gallery.

Bob

[dr_claw]

Thanks for the pics of the Moose! I really appreciate you posting them. Cheers! (Ryan with the overheating KLX300 )

[offworlder]

The river crossing on the C+ section was a highlight indeed ! Deepest crossing I've ever traversed (although I walked the behemoth across). There's plenty of video out there (hint, hint.. Lane, Wes ?) but here's one of the 690 we almost lost downstream spewing water out of the spark plug hole:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyPk...ature=youtu.be

[tomcycle]

Water Crossing from Routledge Run 2012

Took Scott a while to get the ol drz running again

[Mad Max]

Water Crossing from Routledge Run 2012

Took Scott a while to get the ol drz running again

Looks kinda like he FLOODED it to me But then again I've flooded a couple bikes that way myself!!!

[fastlane]

My photo's of Routledge 2012 posted here
Enjoy!
Lane