Not this year. We left Altrol’s parking lot around 9:00, thank you Dave Bridges for letting us use your lot to park and headed to the Ice Bridge, all went good to Clear Creek Buttes with one or two little side trips trying to decide which way we wanted to go.
Anyway, once we dropped off the south end on the Buttes we turned south and followed a trapper’s track to nowhere 🙂 Back tracked to the Bonnifield and headed south once more. There was a track of sorts, not recently used, but definable and it was heading in the direction we wanted to go and was the Bonnifield Trail.
This got us about half the way to the Wood until we came to a creek/stream that the ice had caved in. It was about 6 to 8 feet deep and maybe 15 to 20 feet across, so we stopped and back tracked a half mile or so and tried to find a way to get around it. We were right in the middle of the burn area and kept hitting stumps and down trees. After working on this for a bit we decided to go back to the trapper trail we found and follow it east to the Blair Lakes fuel road. Of course we didn’t bring a chain saw and even if we did I had no intention of spending all day cutting a new trail to cross the creek.
Great ride on the trapper line all the way to the fuel road and hot, almost too hot I know I was sweating most of the time during this section of the run. Well we headed south again towards Blair Lakes on the road and finally turned around at the new gate that said something to the effect of 4 targets and Laser Targeting Area, humm, hope they don’t have moving targets on their list of laser practice shots 🙂
We decided to head back to the rigs and take the road, it was smooth and fast, almost to fast as the last 3 pictures will show. Seems John’s (not I the other John) 800 Cat decided it wanted its belly scratched and didn’t quite make one of the turns, up and over the berm he goes, sled is on its side and John is OK, so after petting his poor sled we set it so the tracks were facing downward again and headed for home.
Of course I didn’t have the video camera going at the time nor was I close enough to him even if I did, would of have been a great action shot, but we did get some pictures 🙂 We ended up putting on a total of 87 and half miles for the day.
Some of the video I did get.
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