reevesr1 Posted July 13, 2015 Posted July 13, 2015 My son and I just returned from a 3 day fishing swing through Southern Alberta and BC. 3 rivers, 800 KM of driving in total. The fishing was just so-so--we stunk up the joint in southern alberta (lots of opportunities, very little deal closing), hit a new river to us in BC only to find it total chocolate milk. Got past the tribs that were blown out a bit from rain and it cleared up nicely. Fishing was good on surface until about 1:30 and someone threw the switch. No bugs, no rises, no nothing after that. Managed a few more small fish, but was a little disappointing. Started to make the drive to another river system on some old FSRs when it started to rain, sometimes pretty hard. We actually started to talk about abandoning so we wouldn't have to camp in the rain. But the rain pretty much stopped after an hour or so, 15 minutes of that pretty hard. As we were going thru a section with a pretty steep hill to our left (drivers side), my son suddenly speeds up. I didn't pay much attention to it, but did see something weird out of the corner of my eye. It looked like the hill was sloughing toward us. I had a "what the hell??" moment, then turned around just as a small river of mud, trees, boulders and water hit the road just behind us and spewed about 10 feet or so straight up in the air. We stopped about 100 yds down the road to look, watched for about 10 seconds and I thought "I'm one of those people watching the river flood just before it sweeps me away" and we got in the car and high tailed it out of there. The pictures below are from the next day. If we had been two seconds later, we would have literally had 0 chance. Took my heart a few minutes to stop beating. I've had some scary situations in my life, a couple of which seemed life threatening at the time. But this was literally the closest I've ever been to an obituary. From road looking up, note the new boulders Looking up again [/url] From the road, looking back the way we came. The debris field is about 6 feet or so high here. Looking down. You can see the culverts where a little run off stream goes under the road. Looking down again. This is about as wide as a 2 lane road. Quote
Carlodabroads Posted July 13, 2015 Posted July 13, 2015 Thats intense! I always feel a bit leary up some of those FSR's during storms, this validates those fears. glad you guys made it out with nothing more than a good story. 1 Quote
monger Posted July 13, 2015 Posted July 13, 2015 Good to hear you escaped. How did you get back out...the long scenic route? Quote
reevesr1 Posted July 13, 2015 Author Posted July 13, 2015 Actually, we were driving from the Bull River FSR towards Whiteswan. So no need to go back. Wish we could have, the side we went to was all blown out from the rain that night. Quote
Muffin Posted July 13, 2015 Posted July 13, 2015 Wow that is wild, glad to hear you had some luck on your side with that. Quote
murray Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Rick, first off, glad you made it out the other side, it really could have been a horrible story otherwise. But boy, what a fishing story for your future Grand kids. Quote
bcubed Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 I feel like these kind of things follow you around 1 Quote
Frenchie Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Wow! Scary. You must be glad you didn't do a "just one more cast" before you hit that road... Quote
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