You should try it when you have to cut trees
You welcome btw
Oh snap. I'm sure you just didn't clear the trail for only YOU to use. Cool to see another group use it! Looks like mud tires are a great choice for that trail.
alexander mackenzie trail 2016 BC canada
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Oh snap. I'm sure you just didn't clear the trail for only YOU to use. Cool to see another group use it! Looks like mud tires are a great choice for that trail.
Wjustin
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Grey Tacoma has 255-75-17 bfg muds
White Tacoma has 285-75-17 bfg ats
And the jeep has 31-10.5-15 cooper stx's
cruiseroutfit
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cruiseroutfit
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Absolutely, I'm pumped it's getting used and I hope with regular traffic each group will only need to cut a few dozen trees. I'm just jesting about the "not as hard as they made it out to be"
Wjustin
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Absolutely, I'm pumped it's getting used and I hope with regular traffic each group will only need to cut a few dozen trees. I'm just jesting about the "not as hard as they made it out to be"
You can jester about that all you want. We came prepared to cut logs for weeks. Just so happend that 4-5 groups went through before us. The trail it self wasn't hard at all, hardest part was trying not to gore your self from the logs that were cut 2" off the trail.
cruiseroutfit
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I'm not sure who went behind us but both the folks at the airstrip and Pan Phillips told us we were the first that season in 4x4's. We too dealt with many of the gore logs, many sections had been cut for ATV's and rather than cut one side or the other they cut down the middle leaving daggers on both sides, we generally cut both sides but there were certainly some we cut just in one side or the other and dealt with the tight trail.
I'll agree the trail itself isn't difficult, in the absence of logs it could be done in a long day IMO.
cruiseroutfit
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Re-reading your trip report, you guys definitely did it right taking a down day at the lake and relaxing. I would have loved to spend a day swimming around but we were convinced we'd be cutting past Phillips.
Wjustin
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Yeah, I talked to a few guys who did it a few years back and they told us to make sure you stop and camp there. Glad we did. Very cool history there. Yeah some of the days my head hurt from concentrating so much, trying to put log through the firewall lol. Apparently we were the 4th group behind you guys. According to Robbie
cruiseroutfit
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Wow, that is awesome it is getting so much use. I had saved a copy of the old school BC4x4 trip report on my tablet and enjoyed reading about all of the various historical stops. The folks at Pan Phillips has an AMAZING Mackezie trail guide that had literally mile by mile trial info and names and dates on all of the cabins, camps, etc. I tried to find a copy but they sell for $400+ The village just east of the Pan Phillips was my favorite, the old cabins, frontier living at it's best. I'm a total history geek so that stuff just draws my attention.
Wjustin
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Yeah that was prob our favourite part of the trip also, we were there for a good 2 hours checking out all the old buildings. Seemed like you guys caught the better weather, it rained on us pretty much everyday. And crossing the black water was defiantly the most nerve racking part I thought.