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General => Non Hunting/Fishing Photos => Topic started by: Okanagan on February 23, 2010, 08:09:05 PM

Title: Chilcotin country in British Columbia
Post by: Okanagan on February 23, 2010, 08:09:05 PM
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The phone booth below, near Big Creek, BC, has to be one of the loneliest phone booths in North America.  It's a good 35 miles up an unpaved logging road from the nearest pavement, and another 60 miles from there to the nearest real town.    A week ago I drove about 150 miles across country on logging roads from Hanceville to Clinton and took a few pics along the way.  Saw four moose, 29 mule deer, one coyote, two bands of bighorn sheep and some eagles.
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Below is the Fraser River frozen down below the Gang Ranch.

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A frozen waterfall in the sage of the Fraser Canyon near the Gang Ranch

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Fraser canyon with a band of bighorn sheep on the near rim of the chasm.

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Title: Re: Chilcotin country in British Columbia
Post by: pitw on February 23, 2010, 08:57:36 PM
Wow nice pics again.  My father worked at the gang ranch two winters in '46 and '47 I believe.  He said it was beautiful country but he came home to be a flatlander. :congrats: :congrats:
Title: Re: Chilcotin country in British Columbia
Post by: HaMeR on February 24, 2010, 06:51:55 AM
Man that 1st pic is awesome!!  :yoyo: :yoyo:  They are all good but the 1st one is the one I like the most. Thanks for sharing.  :yoyo: :yoyo:
Title: Re: Chilcotin country in British Columbia
Post by: Okanagan on February 24, 2010, 08:14:27 AM
Quote from: HaMeR on February 24, 2010, 06:51:55 AM
Man that 1st pic is awesome!!  :yoyo: :yoyo:  They are all good but the 1st one is the one I like the most. Thanks for sharing.  :yoyo: :yoyo:

Yep, that photo is my favorite also, and way more typical of the vast Chilcotin country than the "edge" of in it the big canyons that the other photos show.    I shot the bobtailed coyote mentioned in another thread near where this photo was taken, and also had two wolves howl back at me in that area.

We moved 3/4 mile closer to where we thought the wolves were howling and had them howl back a second time, but they sounded as far away as before.  We drove a mile and a half closer to where we thought the sound came from and called with prey sound but nothing came in.  Our howls may have run them off.  I just don't know enough about wolves, but it sure is fun to be able to hunt such country.  I'm blessed.  Just wish I had more time.