Ride to Cultus Lake

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Zohw · #1 Unread post by **Zohw** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:55 pm

Went to Cultus Lake with a co-worker. He rode his GPZ 1100, and I took my Zephyr. Didn't take too many pictures, but I liked this one:

ceemes · #2 Unread post by **ceemes** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:29 pm

aw man, I use to have one of those zed's, why did I ever sell it? Oh right, needed tuition money....sigh......

#3 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:36 pm

Was that today? Damn it was nice out there, I had to sleep...

Oh well, it's off to work now...

Zohw · #4 Unread post by **Zohw** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:54 am

Was on Sunday. Wasn't too chilly, and the sun was shining. Not going to find too many nice days like that for a while now. Forecast calls for rain, rain, and even more rain.

#5 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:18 pm

Zohw wrote:Was on Sunday. Wasn't too chilly, and the sun was shining. Not going to find too many nice days like that for a while now. Forecast calls for rain, rain, and even more rain.

Interspersed with a bit of rain...

Fast Eddy B · Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:16 am

wasn't there a big ole landslide near chilliwack recently?

Just found it. On Chehalis lake. See it?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columb ... anche.html

#7 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:04 pm

I was out yesterday for a couple of hours...
It was only about 0°C but the main roads were dry and the sun kept any ice away...
No special trip, just had to take a 20yr old barista for a ride...

ceemes · #8 Unread post by **ceemes** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:41 pm

Fast Eddy B wrote:wasn't there a big ole landslide near chilliwack recently?

Just found it. On Chehalis lake. See it?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columb ... anche.html

It's one of the risk associated with living in "God's Country". Every year we have a number of slides and avalanches here and lost around 20 or so people. The worse one hit back in 1965, the Hope Slide. It makes the recent one at Chehalis Lake look like nothing.

The Hope Slide was one of the largest landslides ever recorded in Canada. It occurred in the morning hours of 9 January 1965. An earlier, small avalanche had forced four people to stop their vehicles a few miles southeast of the town of Hope, British Columbia (two hours east of Vancouver), on a stretch of the Hope-Princeton Highway below Johnson Peak. As those people contemplated waiting for clearing crews or turning around, a small earthquake below the mountain triggered the main slide, which obliterated the mountain's southwestern slope.

The slide buried the victims and their vehicles under a torrent of 46 million cubic meters of pulverized rock, mud, and debris 85 metres (nearly 300 feet) thick and 3 kilometres (about 2 miles) wide, which came down the 2000-metre (6000-foot) mountainside, consumed a lake, rode up the other side of the valley, and then rebounded again to slosh up the original slope before settling. Rescue crews only found two of the four dead—the others have remained entombed in the rock, with their cars, since 1965.

The highway has since been rerouted around and over the base of the slide's debris field. Most of the massive scar on the mountain face remains bare rock, without significant growth of trees or other large vegetation. It is quite easily visible from jet aircraft passing overhead.

It's worth a stop to look at if you ever take a ride up the Hope-Princeton Highway.