Barb Haley, Watershed Watch Chair
My Observations
Date: Aygust 20, 2025 @1000
Area: Peachland Fire Service Road
Temperature: +23C
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Light
Visibility: Excellent
Conditions: It’s summer!
Observations: Something about my inability to manage time (there’s not enough), doing too many things at once, too many family disasters and a well deserved holiday with the kid has distracted me from my duties with the PWPA. I apologize for my hiatus.
I digress, I was heading out with the doggos, haven’t figured out where to adventure to, when I pulled out onto Princeton Ave well before an empty logging truck! Now I had an excellent opportunity to find out where they are pulling the logs from these days.
Truck after truck, fully loaded, have been parading down Princeton Ave, and I finally timed it right!
Just after the cattleguard, where it turns to gravel, Mr. Logging Truck started to tailgate me hard. I was going a pretty good clip but he still wouldn’t back off. He decided to go for a supremely dangerous pass and with the huge dust cloud, I had no option but to pull off to the right hard, partially off the road.
Few minutes later, I found Mr. Logging Truck stopped at the intersection waiting for the call up truck coming the other way with a full load. So I’m not quite sure why he was in such a rush….
Great chance for me to see where he’s heading! It was so dusty I couldn’t follow too close, but because of that dust. he was easy to track. Shocking was this driver’s complete disregard for safety, even at the speed I was going at (where the going was good), I was never going to catch up to him. I swear he must have been doing 18-wheel drifts in the corners.
I found the road where he turned off (past Headwaters Lakes) and drove a short distance. I went up far enough to get some pictures, but I was terrified the whole time that I’d run into another jacka$$, fully loaded this time, on this tiny road.
On the way back, I found another road that looked interesting. Drove up one spur quite a way and found what looks like a continuation of the Operations from the first road I went up.
