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================================= The above pic was taken up on Vernon Mountain a few years ago, and shows our beautiful Valley – how sad that so much of the South/west area has been destroyed by fire. ========================================== Although things are ok at present, things can change quickly, so we have packed up some of the stuff in… Continue reading Tuesday August 11th/26

============================================ Mornin’ bloggers – With the fire situation in the valley and in particular Summerland being in total chaos – I thought we would devote today showing more pics of our great trials area that we had and some from the outlaw trial which we held there starting 1987. From top to bottom – The… Continue reading Monday August 10th/26

=========================================== Above is a pic from a few years ago in the beautiful yellow meadow we just loved to visit in Summerland- As most of our bloggers know, they now have a raging Forest Fire in that area which is also threatening the City of Summerland. A total of 20,000 people have been evacuated, including… Continue reading Sunday August 9th/26

With all the bad news about fires and smoke in our valley, thought i would post this shot from a ride we did over on the westside earlier this year – absolutely gorgeous day, -I was out on my favorite TRS 125.- and the good news is that we just got a phone call from… Continue reading Saturday August 8th/26

====================================== Mornin” bloggers – Another smoky day in the Valley, and not much news to report – the fires are still burning over Westside, now more in the Southern area , but more folks being evacuated. – We also saw a fire at Belcarra near Ioco so obviously no riding out there. -Unfortunately the forecast… Continue reading Friday August 7th/26

Mornin’ Outlaw bloggers – We hope that you are all keeping safe in these troubling times with the unpredictable forest fires. Nothing much has changed for us, but they appear to have a handle on the Westside fires at least. – We have had no word from Roy so we have no idea how he… Continue reading Thursday August 6th/26

============================================ The aftermath of the Westside forest fires are still emerging, with so many harrowing stories of family homes burned.. – we were contacted by someone we know in Australia, who have old friends that have lost their home and are desperate to find a place to rent short term – we are posting here… Continue reading Wednesday August 5th/26

I took the picture above from our back deck early Monday morning, which appears to show more fires starting over on the west side of Lake Okanagan – that is Swan lake and Hwy 97 in the foreground. Although things were calm early in the day, the winds got up later, so we don’t know… Continue reading Tuesday August 4th/26

Mornin’ bloggers – this was the view from my Office window yesterday before things started to go sideways!! – The map below shows how the fire headed North and fortunately did not jump the lake – ( We are located on the right side of this map up above Hwy 97 by Swan Lake) Below… Continue reading Monday August 3rd/26

A bit of a different format today – which shows me on that first Yamaha IT 400 at the 1976 Moose Mountain 200 mile Cross Country race – we have told this story before, but the reason I’m posting this, is because I just watched a video on You Tube regarding the history of Hard… Continue reading Sunday August 2nd/26