OUTLAW EAGLE MANUFACTURING

hosman · Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Fort St John, BC

I heard a couple guys from the coast mistakenly went downstream from fireside boat launch on the Liard River (northern BC) and ended up going through Whirlpool canyon. Sunk the boat and just about drowned, but were lucky to make it back to shore swimming. Anybody else hear about this or know anything else about this incident?

ntjetboater · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:09 am Post subject:

We were near there this weekend too. Didn't see anything though. There were alot of boats hunting. Actually we were way east of Boiler Canyon, now that i see where you mean.
Is this the spot??

hosman · Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Fort St John, BC

Yes, this is the spot! What map program is that? Looks pretty useful and detailed....would love to get my hands on that.

Where is boiler Canyon?

PuddleJumper · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Out There Somewhere

its OZZY Explorer an aftermarket program that will let you upload and work with topo maps and is a good interface to use with your GPS mapping software. Comes in pretty handy.

Vine has more details and will probably post on this later.

ntjetboater · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject:

Yes it is extremely usefull.
Here is an image of the trip we are going on this weekend.
Preplotted and then sent to the gps. One way 120km(approx)
Easy to follow with GPS once navigating up the river.

program is Oziexplorer
it can use any digital map, these are the actual 1:250 tho. maps that have been digitized and calibrated with UTM or lat long reference. It will also use 1:50 tho if you require a lot more detail.

Rock Doctor · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 71 Location: Ft Nelson

There was a writeup in the FN paper about the incident in Whirlpool Canyon. It said that one of the guys in the sunk boat was 70 yrs old Shocked

. It also said that the guys were picked up in another boat. Other than that I haven't heard much.