Bryan late for SBX-11A check-in...

Dusk had settled and Vikki waited.  She was still working on her Oil painting of the Burl Cabin down near the Inklin by Coleman lantern.  We can't use the generator and use the SBX-11a at the same time. Too much electrical interference.   At 6 pm still no Bryan.  He usually tries to get back by dark.  Vikki heard Tagish on the radio and she called him.  "Bryan's still not back!"  "Oh, he's probably okay.  His skidoo might have got stuck... don't worry." Tagish by. 
Vikki always tries not to worry but her mind can't stop planing what she would have to do if he didn't call in.  He's about 30 km south and it is a 2 1/2 hour trip one way.  
At 6:50 his voice boomed in on the radio.  Vikki called "Finally your back!  I was getting worried."  
Bryan described his day.   He'd made it 6 km down the Sutlahine.  Lots of Marten, Moose, and Wolverine tracks.  The major melt had taken the snow away from the boulders on one section of the river that we have to hug for 200 feet.  It took him 2 to 3 hours to shovel snow from up the bank 30 feet away.  Vikki asked "Could we make a land trail around this section?"  "No, I looked at that option and there is a old 20 feet cut in the bank and it would be a 1/2 km by pass."
"Talk to you in the morning.  Good night."

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Talking to Bryan on the SBX-11A

Bryan's said he made it down there okay but had to unload the Toboggan twice on the steep hills and carry every thing up to the top and drag the Toboggan by hand up.  He'd dried the Toboggan in his shop and applied a thin coating of Kerosene on the Teflon strip but in the 16" of new snow it only helped a little.  
Only one mouse in the trap and he hasn't heard them running around in the ceiling anymore.  He said he made it down to the big creek that flows into the Sutlahine.  Lots of Marten tracks down there.  He'd picked up 2 more near Walkers'.  Today he is putting out sets down by the Sutlahine.  Vikki reminded him that our trapper friends south of us might drop by in their Super Cub tomorrow on their way there.  Bryan said "I'll be back early in the morning."

Keep up the voting.  The first part of this contest is closed.  If you can share our journey out here .... you can sure some of the work.