Church Run ?

[nakedbarra]

How did the run go do we have a report?

[Bill E.]

We had a good run despite the weather. Shawn and his 109, Bernie and his 110, Me with my 90 and Kris's friend Dave and his wife in thier screamin' yellow Four-runner made up the Saturday group of resolute campers who met up in sechelt at 9:30 outside the MacDonalds. North out of Sechelt and up the east side of Porpoise bay we stopped to air down on the Sechelt-Gray forest service road. Met up with three other trucks heading the same direction, a screamin' yellow Unimog, a heavily modified M-38, and a Ranger pick-up. Our group proceeded up first with the other group never far behind. The bridge washout didn't seem any worse for wear than other times in recent years but the long decent down to the camp proved to be significantly more eroded. With gravity on our side everyone got down without getting stuck. We spent a delightful afternoon and evening sitting and cooking under tarps and exploring the ever more vandalized buildings that make up the abandoned bible camp. The next morning we were joined by a Jeep CJ-7 who had come up to join his friends in the other group. Not long after Kris, Andy, Mark and thier friend Peter in his Landcruiser showed up. Peter also owned the Unimog that came out on the Snowflake chase earlier this year. Further exploration by the new arrivals commenced and that was followed by a bit of lunch. As the afternoon rolled on we decided to break camp and head on up the trail. As we were aware the trail could be difficult we spaced vehicles out so that those with open diffs and no winch were between those with lockers and/or winches. Lots of rubble and some significant stair steps made for a challanging ascent. With only a couple of tug strap extractions everyone made it out successfully. Competent driving on everyones part made for a no stress trip. We made it back to pavement too late for the 4:30 ferry and really early for the 6:30 so we spent the time airing and fueling up and generally wasting a couple of hours talking. Last minute trouble for Peter and the fuel delivery on his Toyota almost left him and Mark in Langdale but thankfully all was repaired in time.

Bill