Join Date: Nov 22, 2023
Location: Not Specified
Contribution Points: 322
Only drove the middle section between 9 and 10.5 km. About 2 cm of snow but otherwise easy driving
Steven Song - Nov 10, 20244WD recommended only because of the two large puddles and the muddy conditions made by the wet weather. Road easy otherwise
Steven Song - Nov 10, 2024No specific update since last one. Pin tripping isn’t terrible for veteran SWBC peak baggers but might be intolerable for the averaged. 10cm accumulat...
Steven Song - Nov 03, 2024Only drove 0.5 km but road appears driveable at least a kilometer or two further . Minor water bars.
Steven Song - Oct 06, 2024Road eventually leads to the road above the mine site, but only drivable for like 50 vertical meters... Then became seriously overgrown, but good for ...
Steven Song - Sep 20, 2024Gate at the start, which makes sense given it leads to a mine site (though obviously decommissioned)
Steven Song - Sep 20, 2024HC 4x4. Road seems very decommissioned with deep ruts that required carefully placing the wheels. Only drove to ~1.5 km, cannot comment on beyond.
Steven Song - Sep 20, 2024Landslide at 5.5 km is cleared but not wide enough for a long box Taco. ATVs can get through.
Narrow and pin stripping leading to it, and enough roo...
The bridge at the start is fixed and in (I had to make two cold fords in 2020 and 2022), but it’s gated with active logging sign. Unsure of road condi...
Steven Song - May 31, 2024Road excellent to the old ski resort turn off, then gets narrow and overgrown. Beyond 8km expect significant pin stripping and a few steep sections ar...
Steven Song - May 31, 2024Remnant of an old road around 3-4 km ish. Mostly not suitable even for walking and difficult to find/stay on. Better and more open forest beside the r...
Steven Song - May 20, 2024Gate at 1km just before the bridge. Dummy locked. Don’t think they want people in but was able to open it. Drove another km before being stopped by sn...
Steven Song - May 20, 2024New gate at around 17 km open . Otherwise cruise to 49 km in 2WD conditions. Note that somewhere around 40 km do not follow Gaia’s map but stick to th...
Steven Song - May 20, 2024Downed tree at the start. Bridge out crossing the creek (used one of the logs to cross on foot). This road is not drivable by any motorized vehicle.
Steven Song - May 15, 2024Gate at 2.5 km is currently vandalized (hence, open). Homeless camp right in front of the gate. A standard SUV should be able to drive to 4.5 km. Did ...
Steven Song - May 15, 20244Low, good tires and decent experience are needed to drive to the pass. Crawling on boulders. Did it in my Taco but I was questioning my sanity after ...
Steven Song - May 14, 2024Snow free to switchback just before 8 km at 1050m elevation. Loose rocks and minor water bars, best with 4X4 with good tires
Steven Song - May 09, 2024Easy driving to beyond Fire Spires turn off, but no longer maintained after around 16 km. Boulders and rocks on road, barely passible in a Tacoma. See...
Steven Song - May 02, 2024Washout at 1 km required 4x4, high clearance vehicle. Road seems not maintained
Steven Song - May 02, 2024Road closed at the bottom with a large truck blocking access. Monday 1:20 PM. Either active logging or the pipeline construction.
Steven Song - Apr 22, 2024New gate still unlocked as of Apr. 22. Lots of working activities and one sign indicated closure from 8-noon, 1-6 pm M-F or something like that. I nev...
Steven Song - Apr 22, 2024Drove to ~0.6 km past the "U". About 10cm snow at this elevation. A large boulder blocking the road another ~200m further.
Steven Song - Mar 03, 2024AWD with some clearance needed for the final few kilometers. No water bar, just some loose and steep parts. Road free of snow and drivable to 1150 m, ...
Steven Song - Feb 04, 2024Bridge out crossing the creek NE of Culmination Point. Lots of snowmobile traffics before and after(!) the bridge, to at least 1.3 km.
Steven Song - Jan 28, 2024Plowed to at least Culmination Point FSR connector. Driven in Subaru Forester
Steven Song - Jan 28, 2024Road is known as Sunset Main on many sources. Plowed to at least 4.5 km north of Pennask Mtn. Not sure if this plowing is for every winter or only app...
Steven Song - Jan 28, 2024Washout at 9.5 km could be driven in a narrow, lifted Jeep or ATV. Might be possible in a Tacoma but did not try. Not worth driving further anyway.
Steven Song - Dec 17, 2023Gate at start, unlocked, but says no motorized access. Otherwise it’s in 4WD HC shape, chainsaw action needed to clear some blowdowns. Otherwise easil...
Steven Song - Dec 10, 20232WD conditions from west end to at least Pass Valley. Did not explore farther. West end of road starts from all the way at Highway 1 only a few km fro...
Steven Song - Dec 10, 2023Road closed between Highway 1 and Pass Valley/Deadman-Cache Creek Connector. It was blocked by an landslide in Oct. 2021 around 3 km and was still "cl...
Steven Song - Dec 10, 2023Gate at the start is locked and never seem to be open. Fairly easy on a bike though sections of steep and rough necessities pushing.
Steven Song - Dec 06, 2023Deep and remote, but drivable easily in any 2WD car.. Slightly rougher with washboards on the section parallel Fraser Canyon, but still in 2WD shape. ...
Steven Song - Dec 03, 2023Road is private with "no trespassing" sign at the start, though not gated. The gate at 26 km is permanently closed with more "no trespassing" signs. R...
Steven Song - Dec 03, 2023Steep all the way and loose at places necessitates 4wd or good power. Drove to 1170m elevation and parked as snow got too deep for my like.
Steven Song - Nov 28, 2023Drove to the end in Tacoma with all terrain tires , scraped bottom slightly both ways on one water bar
Steven Song - Nov 29, 2023Rough with lots of big pot-holes past Statlu's turn-off. Very slow going. Deactivation ditch at ~15.5 km was bypassible with 4x4, HC vehicles (Taco, 4...
Steven Song - Nov 26, 2023Massive ditch at the start scraped the bottom of a Tacoma with all terrain tires, but manageable. Drove about 1.5 km before being stopped by impassibl...
Steven Song - Nov 26, 2023Two locked gates with "no trespassing" signs. Trespassed nevertheless and got caught on the way back. Some heavy lecturing and arguing but managed wit...
Steven Song - Nov 24, 2023Biked to ~200m before the bridge crossing Widgeon Creek. Once leaving Widgeon Lake trail becomes overgrown. The bridge is in.
Steven Song - Nov 24, 2023HC 4x4. Muddy, narrow. Not a lot of places to park. Used to access Peanut Lake trail to Moore Peak
Steven Song - Nov 05, 2023No significant change. Loose, rough and steep with water bars. HC 4x4 like a Tacoma will get to the usual parking. ATVs can go even further as an ATV ...
Steven Song - Sep 21, 2023Two barbed wire fences. Easy walking conditions. Road extends farther than shown here.
Steven Song - Nov 19, 2023Road goes into Private Property right away with locked gate within 1 km from the start, and signs of "no through road". It's in walking shape but not ...
Steven Song - Nov 19, 2023