Road's Open

If you have one of these!









And one of these!
You can do this......





..............If first you wade through a mountain of paperwork.

Please Thank God that we live in a country where they do listen, then return a call / write a note, and send your Thanks to James Murphy & Joe Lavia at Chilliwack Forestry as well as your MLA that you wrote asking for help to get this done.

Call (604) 660-2421 or 1 800 663-7867 to ask "Enquiry BC"for their contact information. If they do not have a toll free number, Enquiry BC can transfer you to their number free of charge, give you their e-mail addresses or their snail mail addresses!

Thanks all

May 23 lunch time.Good news still rolling in!

Thanks to those who continue to offer help! We have volunteers for:
-Praying for safety for volunteers working up there as well as the Camp users while attending Camp and the safety of the facility when there is no one there. (Any / All please continue to pray)
-Cooking team complete with barbeques to prepare lunch and dinner for the crew working on the telephone line extention up the road and the radio installation that will extend dial tone down the 8Km to the Camp.
-Portable kitchen trailer.
-Boat to bring volunteers down to Camp. Many of these volunteers have never seen the Camp and the reason for the communication needs
-Some tables and chairs so we will have enough. I am going to ask all volunteers to bring one chair for themselves. We might need a couple more fold up tables.
-Enough volunteers to complete the project.
- Some offers of donations towards the cost of having Camp closed for 3 months, feeding volunteers and installing the communications system. (Total estimate of $7,500)

I have to work today, so if anyone wants to drive up this weekend to check the road and Camp, please send me pictures of the blasting location as well as any other thing on the road and the condition of the Camp.

Thank you all for your support of efforts to continue to make the Camp safe and available to user groups!

3rd blog today! More good news

I got a call from a Scout Leader who persisted and got through to the Forestry engineer this afternoon (Friday, May 22) and he was told that the road is OPEN! Praise the Lord!! Now we need to fill the weekends that were cancelled. Anyone want to go up there tonight?
Please call or e-mail me to ask about open bookings!
Thanks
Kris

When was that last post? - 2 hours ago!

Thanks for the support and encouragement.
I have had calls and e-mails offering :
-2 boats.... we may not need those - talked to Parks this Am they said lots of booming and trucks full of rocks coming out of the road!
- a mobile kitchen
- a trailer with chairs, tables, BBQ, propane heater......won't need the heater! The long range forecast is for above average temperatures expected!
-Radio installer / technician
-someone to take my job when he retires in 2 years!
-offer of "Anything else that you need (that I have)"

-Still looking for carpenter / handy guy that doesn't mind heights.
& given the weather forecast - Juice Jug(s) with ICE

Thanks again!!
Kris

What day was that last post? ....only 2 days ago

Prayers, calls / e-mails went to all the right places! I got a return call (after no answer for 3 months) from Barry Penner's MLA office. The rock will be moved within 2 weeks!

I also got a call with a reminder to myself to remember the reason for the Camp and who is in charge. This is a reminder for you, in case any of you stopped praying for the youth that attend Camp, for the safety of the facility and the volunteers that give their time there.

Thanks for all those that responded! I hope to post a real great picture of the road on the other side of the rock.

All those who Prayed, called or wrote... Please pray, call and write to say thank you when the rock is gone!!
Kris

Latest update from Monday, May 18th

Big rock truck and a large excavator parked at the end of the paved road. That's progress! I imagine that they will be blasting it this week and it could be open by next weekend. (They wouldn't want to leave their machinery sitting there for nothing)

Thursday May 7 / 09

I guess that Forestry meant that they were working at working on the plans to work on the rock. Here's the most recent pic taken this afternoon. It is a great thing that God has a better plan than I do!

The trees are growing nice and green on top of the rock. If they can tenaciously hang on there, I guess we can hang on here!

It's always a beautiful drive up there, especially with the snow line about 1,000 ft above the lake. (That's 300 meters for the more recent born people)

I'll keep you posted as soon as I know anything more! Anyone remember "Max" with the bicycle from Austria trying to go over the Trans Canada Trail on the May long weekend a couple of years ago? Another guy from Germany tried this week, sure wished that someone told him that the snow was too deep over the Paleface Pass after carrying his bike over the rock!

Road rock update on Monday, May 4/09

I just talked to Forestry and they are working on the logistics of getting the contractors and their equipment to the site for this week. They don't want to promise anything, but previously they said that it would be about 3 or 4 days work to get it done. I imagine that if they get started late this week, they wouldn't want to leave their equipment sitting up there over the weekend, so would continue working until the road is clear!

I talked to a couple that hiked into the Camp last week and they said that all appeared OK at Camp!