Guzzi or no, this trip is going to happen. I need route suggestions.

[travelingbyguzzi]

 Ha! Well done, Cutter! Any trip that doesn't end with the bike in the back of a pickup is a success!

[Cam3512]

Were you the guy with a blown base gasket before the trip started?   What ever happened with that?

[sturgeon]

It was the strap for the haversack. Heavy, webbed cotton duck. It just slipped through the buckle over time, I guess. When I started out, the bag was a good 5" above the muffler. It lasted that way for 7 days, not sure why it decided to give up the ghost on day 8.

Probably decided it needed to warm up after all the wet cold weather 

I feel your pain; last time I did the run from Osoyoos (Keremeos actually, I'm not fond of the former) to Vancouver, it snowed up top through Manning PP. It was, umm, exciting.

[Toecutter]

Were you the fuy with a blown base gasket before the trip started?

Yup. Long story short, I got the bike back at 7 PM the night before we left.

[yellowheader]

Wow Toecutter, that sounds like quite the trip. Have you gotten your final drive looked at/sorted yet? Hope it's nothing too expensive.

From your route it sounds like you're in the Edmonton area or central Alberta? Me too. I have next week off work, and I'm thinking of taking my first big trip out on the Cali Stone I acquired over the summer. Possibly to Waterton, the Going to the Sun Road thru Glacier NP, maybe to Spokane if I have enough time. I'm anticipating it to be pretty chilly, and I can dress for it, but rain on top of that would be a show stopper I think. Here's hoping it dries out and stays that way the rest of the month.

[Green1]

Great report,been through Hope a couple of times,always with rain gear.Ever time I see the movie First Blood and see Stallone running around the damp/wet woods I think is it aways wet there.The movie was filmed there