Whistler!
 

Well, the wife and I are in Whistler for the week on vacation... okay, KINDA vacation, as there's a convention here for her industry, so they roped her into spending a day there (which fortunately they aren't counting against her vacation days).

So while she was doing that yesterday, I decided to go find myself some off-roading in the Pat. Seems there's lots of trails around here, but not a huge amount of info on finding them except for a very excellent site at www.bivouac.com (highly recommend this for anyone looking for wilderness and offroad info).

Anyway, managed to find my way to one Callaghan Lake and snapped a bunch of pics along the way, but unfortunately my phone's GPS was unable to get a fix the whole afternoon, so I don't have the actual tracks of my journey... had to find the road I took on Google Earth and attach the photos to it manually.

Hoping to get out and do some more exploring today, and I think I've got the GPS working. Meantime, here are some shots from yesterday's adventures, including geotags.

http://picasaweb.google.com/soundy10...CallaghanLake#

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8W57ombPl6k/Sj...0/IMG_0714.JPG

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8W57ombPl6k/Sj...0/IMG_0758.JPG

nice view! how were the trails???

Callaghan Valley Rd. was pretty good... a pretty typical logging road, couple steep bits, some fairly rocky areas, but relatively smooth for the most part. Numerous minor washouts, nothing the Pat couldn't handle easily.

Two guys were up there fishing when I got to the lake, they did it in a Chevy Astro minivan.