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Old 02-21-2009, 10:15 AM
msawyer msawyer is offline
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Default Trapline for sale

Traps et al...

The trapline has a network of older haul roads that run east off the Mabel Lake Forest Service roads that runs up the east side of Mabel Lake. The Mabel Lake Forest Service road runs from Lumby in the south past Mabel Lake to Three Valley Gap on the Transcanada Highway. The road is maintained and plowed from Lumby to Mabel Lake Provincial Park which is at the south end of Mabel Lake. North of there the Mabel Lake Forest Service road is either not plowed or plowed when there is a need (ie timber harvesting). This year it has not been plowed. All of the side roads are not plowed... To date this has been a below average year for snowfall but there is still several meters of snow up high...

The bottomline is that you have two, maybe three, options to access the line. One from Three Valley Gap off the TCH - from there the north end of the line is 11 km south. In most years this would be by skidioo. Two is from Lumby by way of Vernon... You could drive to the south end of Mabel Lake and then access the line by skidoo. The third option would be to access the west side of the lake via Enderby but then you would have to access the line by boat,,, In most years the lake does not freeze until after the new year, if at all...

Three Valley Gap is 430 km from Calgary, all on the TCH. Mabel Lake via Lumby is 610 km from Calgary on paved roads.

Hope this helps

Mike

Last edited by msawyer; 02-21-2009 at 10:39 AM. Reason: updates
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