Saturday 6 July
Ross and Larry headed off to the hangar to organise some camping and fishing gear, while Chris and the kids went out to Cubby’s for food supplies. Ross and Josh then went and filled up 6 x 5 gallon fuel cans to take out to the cabin for the ATVs. By the time the food trip got back from Cubbys, the rest of the party were ready to head out to the cabin, complete with a .44 caliber handgun, just in case we had to convince a bear to find an alternative restaurant. Chris stayed back to organise food as it was going to take 2 trips anyway.
Made the dusty trip to the cabin OK, then Josh headed back into town to pick up Chris. While the girls organised things at the cabin, Larry and Ross headed out on an ATV to scope a good fishing spot. Clear Creek where Chris and Ross fished 23 years ago now has a few more cabins around, so headed a little further north. At one stage a reasonably sized Moose jumped out of the bush onto the track in front of us, and some signs of bears, but no close encounters! Although the track was once wide enough for cars to drive down (as evidenced by a number of rusty wrecks along the way), the trail was now significantly narrower, quite overgrown, and extremely rough in places. For the last half hour or so we were in low ratio, and progressing very carefully with deep ruts and rocks to navigate. We came to the end of a sidetrack terminating at Gallin’s Cabin, a cabin that was in an advanced state of disrepair, that was owned by a guy called Gallin, who is now deceased and the brother of one of Larry’s neighbours. Great fishing spot, really picturesque and private.
Headed back to the cabin (the trip was over an hour each way), and got back to find that we only just got back after Chris and Josh, as Josh had got ‘lost’ on the way back, trying a number of tracks before finally finding Larry’s driveway.
Had a great night at the cabin, reminiscing, and Larry taught us how to play “Double Solitaire” – a favourite hunting camp card game. For dinner, we cooked sausages, roasted broccoli, and bread. We had a good night’s sleep, even though the temperatures were really warm (over 300C during the day). Josh decided to sleep downstairs as it was cooler.
