Murphy Lake

After travelling up a few branch roads, we headed up towards McVey Lake, we had to cut our way in as we seem to be the first people for this time of year, a few hours into it we came to a left or right turn decision, I chose right and we began cutting a bit more. It started to rain on us some and it was getting a bit cold, we could see the snow line getting closer as we climb up in elevation.

We finally came out onto a clear part of the road, now raining harder than it was earlier, as we passed over an old bridge I got off the quad and stretched my legs some.

After passing over the bridge we noticed something up ahead, so we stopped and had a look at it. It was an old sled, not from steam donkey we do not think as we have never seen on like this before.

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Taking a good look at it, we guessed it to be 40 to 45 feet long, the logs are about 3 feet round, something I noticed was that the top blocks were cut to shape the logs, usually they notch out the logs but not these ones.

It was an interesting sled, so far up into the back country by 60 km at an elevation of 2400 in a very remote part of a valley, just the same we wondered what was its sole purpose.

About OldFart

I was born in Powell River, British Columbia and have been a part of it since 1965.
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