Stumbled upon this abandoned, small scale sawmill. It seems like the office building which also sat abandoned. Was for a while, partly turned into a daycare.

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I like this spot, also stumbled upon it unexpectedly while passing through the area. I didn't realize that the yellow outbuilding was also abandoned, could have sworn there was a service truck there when I rolled through. You seem to have a sixth sense for finding old daycares lol.

Great shots as usual.

Posted by EPOCH6 I like this spot, also stumbled upon it unexpectedly while passing through the area. I didn't realize that the yellow outbuilding was also abandoned, could have sworn there was a service truck there when I rolled through. You seem to have a sixth sense for finding old daycares lol. Great shots as usual. click to view

I think someone goes to the property and cut firewood. There was a newer bobcat sitting in the back forty. But no one around when I was out there.

Just a few blocks away there is two abandoned CPR houses that have been up for sale for 1$ each since 2014. When I first been by there years ago. They were wide open, when I was up there this time around they were fairly well sealed up.

I wish we had the quality and quantity of abandoned places like in europe, it is hard to stay motivated around Vancouver. Cant keep going back to the same spots, and many of my favourites have been torn down

Posted by -Rio- I wish we had the quality and quantity of abandoned places like in europe, it is hard to stay motivated around Vancouver. Cant keep going back to the same spots, and many of my favourites have been torn down

Fortunately (and unfortunately) for me I've never been across the oceans, so I have nothing to compare the homeland to in terms of exploration quality, I have yet to explore anything outside of southwestern Canada.

BC hasn't grown stale for me yet. I've only been at this for a few years now and I've still got a long (and continuously growing) list of locations all around the province that I'm eager to check out. Warehouses, industrial plants, and office buildings aren't really my thing anyway, I think I can go at least another couple of years fully satisfied with roaming remote highways dotted with old cabins, mines, farms, homesteads, churches, scrapyards, and shops. The further it is from an urban center the more interesting it is to me.

Getting into motorcycling earlier this year has breathed new life into exploration for me and has opened up so many more opportunities to just take off in any direction and get lost. I'll be getting a new bike early next year that is more capable of long range highway trips, very excited for riding season. I think it would be awesome if we could get a few members together for a 2 day 2018 UER motorcycle trip from the Valley up into northern BC and back with a collectively planned route through a bunch of our favorite spots.

Very cool spot and nice documentation of it through the pics. It honestly seems like it could still be used for some stuff, but it's definitely not in prime shape.

The whole floor of the sawmill seem to me made out of small chunks of scrap metal welded together. It is not a bad thing to recycle material... just odd seeing an industrial building build that way.

Posted by EPOCH6 I think it would be awesome if we could get a few members together for a 2 day 2018 UER motorcycle trip from the Valley up into northern BC and back with a collectively planned route through a bunch of our favorite spots.

Id be down for that. But my bike is a pavement princess. offroad locations are out of question. I have done 20 km of logging roads to get to some caves in Monte Lake years ago... Even at slow speed my front fork was constantly bottoming out.

Here she is...

My next bike will be a pavement princess as well. I'll be keeping the dual-sport for remote exploration (and constant off-road hooliganism around the Valley), but I'll be using the Indian Scout (if it ends up being the bike I choose) for most long distance highway trips. If we do end up planning a UER road trip for next summer it'll be a collaborative thing, we'll make sure that everybody who wants to join is capable of reaching each location without damaging their vehicle.

Beautiful bike by the way.

Looks like a cedar shake mill.