[94sahara]

There goes the neighborhood.

 

[no heros]

Well... lets home nothing happens for a bit. I wanted to do some summer exploring. The girlfriend and I spent all of a saturday exploring two weekends ago, and barely scratched the surface.

The snowline turned us back way before the mines

 

[Cy9H3r]

http://alanabertini.com/FileUploads\docs\Makin_Lands_Feature_Sheet.pdf

In that link there is a photo showin all the sold parcels. The closest one at the top of the hill does not cover or block the FSR in anyway(the FSR is not even visable in the photo). It does cover the hydro access north of the FSR, I dont think there is anything to worry about wih this. There is alot of timber being pulled out of Furrey and Brittania drainages as well so there will always be a road Plenty of more exploring to do up there this summer. I was up to the basin a few times last summer but did not continue up past it. Does any one know the condition of the road up past Jane Basin?(obviously with no snow). I also walked for a few hundred feet up the old road towards the 2 lakes but it looks as though most was washed away when they made the "slight" error in the blast of the dam.

 

[silvertongue]

http://alanabertini.com/FileUploads\docs\Makin_Lands_Feature_Sheet.pdf

In that link there is a photo showin all the sold parcels. The closest one at the top of the hill does not cover or block the FSR in anyway(the FSR is not even visable in the photo). It does cover the hydro access north of the FSR, I dont think there is anything to worry about wih this. There is alot of timber being pulled out of Furrey and Brittania drainages as well so there will always be a road Plenty of more exploring to do up there this summer. I was up to the basin a few times last summer but did not continue up past it. Does any one know the condition of the road up past Jane Basin?(obviously with no snow). I also walked for a few hundred feet up the old road towards the 2 lakes but it looks as though most was washed away when they made the "slight" error in the blast of the dam.

This is an old link as I understand the developer has purchased all those lots and as I see it the FSR entrance is in the centre of lot 13 and also cuts through the top right corner of lot 12. :/

 

[Cy9H3r]

yeah you are right that is the fsr in the middle if lot 13. who knows what will happen. I would think that would be the last area to be developed but you never know. perhaps they will reroute the fsr or have a gate at the end of whatever neighbourhood will be there. only time will tell, in reality how well do we think a 4000 person neighbourhood will do in the makin lands, considering all the land for sale in britania beach that has sat unsold for years. next time i am at my gf's work i will ask the person in charge of fsr's for the slrd what they plan on doing.

 

[Cy9H3r]

ok so i asked my gf what the deal is and she will check at work on monday with the roads guys. as far as she knows there is alot of "industrial" work happening up furry and britannia creek as they are starting to re-harvest the 2nd growth timber in the area. this is good for us since they will have to maintain access to the road. as well access to "parts unknown" needs to be maintained, whatever that means.

 

[garethrdbrown]

ok so i asked my gf what the deal is and she will check at work on monday with the roads guys. as far as she knows there is alot of "industrial" work happening up furry and britannia creek as they are starting to re-harvest the 2nd growth timber in the area. this is good for us since they will have to maintain access to the road. as well access to "parts unknown" needs to be maintained, whatever that means.

so has anyone heard anything about the state of the roads or if they have been blocked off?

 

[Cy9H3r]

They are going to be keeping the gate closed for the meantime as far as I have herd down the grapevine. Apparently they will re-asses access come summertime. Due to the budget cuts they cant afford to maintain all the gates in the provience so basically if that gate gets busted up again it will take awhile for it to get fixed(unless the forestry company working up there fixes it). They are planning on permanently deactivating certain fsr's in the provience as well to save on the mainainence costs(i thought they already did this with the water bars but apparently they will literaly dig up large sections of road, large tank traps, bridge removal and tree platings down sections of the old roads), havnt been able to find a list yet but if they log/mine/power project on it it probably wont be closing. Had something to do with old roads that had bridges on them but no active industrial use, provience still has to inspect and maintain the bridges which costs quite a bit apparenty,

 

[James83]

The gates are usually locked.

I was up there yesterday and the gate was open, but by the looks of it a smaller Jeep or Samurai should be able to bypass the gate no problem. I'd say it is definitely worth the trip. Hopefully I'll get back up there when its not pissing out.

 

[Islander 4x4]

I work at a marina in Howe sound, and since the clean up of Britannia Mine, I Have noticed two things, a very rapid increase of marine vegetation, and an increase of crabs, prawns & shrimp. There is a local pod of Dolphin in the sound now (which is very new). A killer whale was seen in the sound as well.

HAHA; I work less than 30 mins away, and I've never been to the mine..

 

[sour dalton]

i grew up in gibsons before it turned into yuppie hell....and as long as i can remember there have been dolphin sightings randomly in howe sound....i also heard that they stopped using creasote on pilings and it has caused the herring to return and everything else down the line

 

[Islander 4x4]

i grew up in gibsons before it turned into yuppie hell....and as long as i can remember there have been dolphin sightings randomly in howe sound....i also heard that they stopped using creasote on pilings and it has caused the herring to return and everything else down the line

We use steel pilings at our marina, the Marina owner use to use treated logs before switching to steel, instead of creasote. His view was, he didn't like the oil slick in the marina, and the smell on a hot day.

 

[sour dalton]

good on em', I'm no tree hugger by any means but there's no reason anymore for marinas to look like an outhouse!!!

 

[devon11]

Thanks for sharing that Westcoaster, that was really good footage!

 

[fonetikal]

I don't know how those kids got those sleds sliding so well, we had one and it was terrible!

Awesome footage, especially all the stuff with the kids playing on the train tracks.

That gondola tower looked sketchy!!

 

[Cy9H3r]

Thats good footage there. Such a contrast to what is left now. Its sad the company razed the town. The mine website has some good photos from Mt Sheer as well. Interesting to park by the dam and pool and imagine what it would have been like. The vernicular tram ended at the large concrete bunker type room past the yellow gate and from there the road follows the old railway right of way to the townsite. I believe the tram went from the townsite to jane basin, there is another tram on the opposite side at victoria camp where the bull wheel is still intact.

 

[RMS]

made it there two weeks ago in my dime. i must apologize to the guy in the 4runer i could not slowdown with out having to back down the hill and take another run. i dont think he was upset because he gave me the thumbs up as I passed. but it could have been another finger.

had such a good time i took the truck up the following weekend

I lost my jerry can strap some were near the pelton wheel it is a 12inch strip of galvanized steel with a clasp if found please pm

 

[Bliz]

every piece of brass or copper in the place looks like its been grabbed at with pliers and attempted to be removed....

 

[mazdamolinelli]

awsome article about the mines and the town site , ive been to britannia tons of times and even took the tours where they talked about mt.sheer town site but had no clue i could drive there, how bad was the loggind road , do you think my fwd tribute could make it some of the way, its summer now so hopefully no snow lol

 

[84jimmy]

Has anyone been to the site recently? Is the gate still locked?
Thanks!!