Whipsaw & Beyond 2009 –Day 1

The anticipation leading up to this run was amazing, over 1000 posts would placed on the thread prior to the actual run itself.  The same anticipation as you get when taking an ice cube and running it down the spine of your neck on that hot summer day.  During the run we would travel over 1000 km together through 5 days exploring some of the most beautiful tantalizing areas in our province.

Adventures together, friendships, bonds and perhaps a bit of limerence would occur; one never knows quite what to expect when you get over 22 trucks together.  My eyes were opened up and my own personal epiphany’s would occur about my own views and realizing just how amazing things can be.  How your own views can get in the way of an amazing time, if you let them.  Being this was a first for me, travelling in a large pack, it was a bit daunting and my mind interwove its own thoughts on how things would happen.  Luckily my overactive imagination had led me down the wrong path and my awesome other half kept prodding me to go – I’m grateful that I did and thank both him and the company we were in for helping us have the time of our lives and fulfilling a dream Jordy has had for 40 years.

Geoff06 had travelled up Tuesday night to meet us at our own home base in Tulameen, watching a movie in his truck instead of sitting by the fire!  Time to take the boy out of city to the woods where such luxuries don’t exist (lol). 6 others had made the journey Tuesday night to the 18 km mark of Whipsaw, to allow them to take in the first whiff of camp fire smoke, Bruce’s  delicious mouth watering cooking and an ice cold beer in the best way – Anatural in the great outdoors.  Sass (TMAX), Bruce (Jeeper), Razvan( Razon ), Terry (Weiser) & Alanna,  Kevin (99Silverado), Rob #1(Bushpiggy) and Little Rob (Rob #2).

We left the cabin at about 9:10 (running the traditional 10 minutes late) and headed towards Princeton passing 2 brand new baby fawns and missing the first photo op of the trip, of course I had been playing with the new inverter that Jordy picked up for me as a toy so I could do what I needed to, write and transfer photos.  Well the first time ever I learned what NMEA stands for, it means you now have the luxury of a 17 inch GPS monitor and can track the trail and navigate in style (ok such luxuries do exist in the bush).