Y,know, my explorations down the alder choked tracks of Forebay road all ended in piles of garbage, literally thousands of plastic shotgun shell casings, and abandoned appliances. Maybe the problem is the shiny paint wheelers aren’t getting in there? I dunno.
What is for certain, is some real morons are getting in, shiny paint or scratched. It’s a shame.
For the sake of this discussion, let’s call the loop route we are talking about the “Desolation Creek Loop”. This screen capture is from some random enduro riders GPS track, so the path he took is not important. But if you tap the photo for full res, and zoom in (ignoring the green line), it does show the abandoned spur I think you are talking about that would provide an alternate access to Hidden / Alligator lake from the Desolation Creek Loop. The spur heading north from the loop towards the lake where obviously the enduro rider made it coming south via Alligator Main. Would be cool if that road was made drivable again, if that’s the one you are talking about.
BRMB also has an app. “BRMB Explorer”. It is poorly rated and rightly so. Super annoying to use, however, once you wrap your brain around the way it works, it is actually super handy. They sell maps for it. I think it’s $9.99 a year or something to keep the BC map active.
In general, what you are trying to do (anyone else here fell free to jump in) is go from Port Renfrew, to Nitinat Lake, starting on the Gordon River Road, before heading west to Nitinat, and then on to Port Alberni via Franklin Camp and the road to Bamfield. I believe that can all be done on public, ungated, Forest Service Roads. I have not done the route to Port Alberni from Nitinat, so maybe someone else can chime in to confirm.
I wonder what it would take to clear it all out? I only got in a couple kilometres at most. Does it open up further in or is the whole thing a jungle track?
I would be down with helping brush it out if it was a task that was possible for manual labour.
Y,know, my explorations down the alder choked tracks of Forebay road all ended in piles of garbage, literally thousands of plastic shotgun shell casings, and abandoned appliances. Maybe the problem is the shiny paint wheelers aren’t getting in there? I dunno.
What is for certain, is some real morons are getting in, shiny paint or scratched. It’s a shame.
For the sake of this discussion, let’s call the loop route we are talking about the “Desolation Creek Loop”. This screen capture is from some random enduro riders GPS track, so the path he took is not important. But if you tap the photo for full res, and zoom in (ignoring the green line), it does show the abandoned spur I think you are talking about that would provide an alternate access to Hidden / Alligator lake from the Desolation Creek Loop. The spur heading north from the loop towards the lake where obviously the enduro rider made it coming south via Alligator Main. Would be cool if that road was made drivable again, if that’s the one you are talking about.
No, we are discussing another route, not Alligator Main.
BRMB also has an app. “BRMB Explorer”. It is poorly rated and rightly so. Super annoying to use, however, once you wrap your brain around the way it works, it is actually super handy. They sell maps for it. I think it’s $9.99 a year or something to keep the BC map active.
In general, what you are trying to do (anyone else here fell free to jump in) is go from Port Renfrew, to Nitinat Lake, starting on the Gordon River Road, before heading west to Nitinat, and then on to Port Alberni via Franklin Camp and the road to Bamfield. I believe that can all be done on public, ungated, Forest Service Roads. I have not done the route to Port Alberni from Nitinat, so maybe someone else can chime in to confirm.
I wonder what it would take to clear it all out? I only got in a couple kilometres at most. Does it open up further in or is the whole thing a jungle track?
I would be down with helping brush it out if it was a task that was possible for manual labour.