A little light on car content but another update. Apparently I am due for an oil change already. Ordered a stubby antenna to replace the huge one that makes the car look like an RC car. Also ordered parts to delete the sound tube which pipes in intake noise from the engine bay.
Took it for another drive on the weekend - this time to the Crowsnest Pass.
A North American spec 300ZX seen outside Brocket, Alberta. You can see some of the many windmills in this area.
The parking lot was well sign posted and marked. The trail head not so much. There was four. I picked the correct one last of course. As a result I accidently climbed the next over mountain first.
No 4wd required
Met a bear on the wrong trail. 5x cell phone zoom but close enough!
After a somewhat sketchy climb at the beginning with lots of steep uphills and loose rock the trees started to thin out a bit. I made it to the peak in this photo which is actually only the first (false) peak. It was raining a bit and cloudy so that is as far as I went. (Plus I'd walked about 10+ kms trying to get to correct trailhead - ugh).
Somehow my photos at the top didn't save to the phone which was annoying (happened once before, lost a little batch) but this was pretty close. You can see the down on the town of Blairmore. The elevation gain is around 925 m and this would be somewhat less at this point.
The "trail" back down.
At the bottom you can drive the historical road through the rock slide near the railway and river and the other side of the mountain. For those not familiar Frank’s Slide which is a well known mining disaster. On April 29 1903 the eastern edge of mining Town Frank was covered by 90 million tons of rock sliding down from nearby Turtle mountain. The mountain was the site of an active coal mine which likely contributed the slide on an already unstable mountain. Ironically many of the men working in the mine were safe and returned to find their families and homes gone. Total loss of life is estimated to be between 70 and 90. The railway was covered but quickly repaired, the mine re-opened and the remains of the town re-located. With the exception of the highway and railway cutting through it the site of the slide remains as it was in 1903.
Still spitting rain so no top down.