5 Wheel Drive: Land Rover & KTM tackle the Gaspé Peninsula

[deadly99]

I've been there is early June and got turned back by snow....just something to consider. Where there wasn't snow the trails were very muddy and soft.

[KevinNY]

Nice job boys!

[Rocket Ship]

The response so far from everyone has been great! I think we need to organize a 5 man group next time of trucks and motorcycles and finish the trail! Anyone interested in early spring time next year? "The Great Gaspé Crossing Part II"

More like, the crossing of the Gaspe Gap.

70 miles? You guys must have been idling a lot to burn that much fuel?

Ted, how deep do you think the river was?

[ini88]

I like that! Gaspian Gap!

Idle.... yeah that was one of our problems. The truck had a dead battery when we first tried to start it the night before. So we jumped it off the pick-up truck and really didn't want to take our chances shutting it off every other time we came to a challenge. We had my KTM but I don't know if the KTM's battery would jump a V8. Maybe if it was warm but not stone cold. After camping that night we woke and tried to kick over the Rover and it fired right up. too late though as fuel reserves were already low.

Kevin, you should have come along! I know you have been itching to get up to Gaspe.

[KevinNY]

I'm building a '97 Land Cruiser now that will be perfect for long drives like that.

[ini88]

I'm building a '97 Land Cruiser now that will be perfect for long drives like that.

Sell the Goat and lets plan a trip up there with the LC and lets conquer it!

[ini88]

Report coming (man i'm really hyping this up right?) teaser shot!

[KevinNY]

The Goat IS sold, delivered it last weekend.

[Rocket Ship]

The Gaspian Gap Expedition. I love it!

[ini88]

After a night of heavy drinking in the hotel room and watching off-road video we wake up a tad late, but well rested... and with a slight hangover. No big deal though because all we have to do is drive at a snails pace through the woods right?



We pack up and hit the gas station right away. I fill the bike and Jarek fills the Disco plus the 3 jerry cans… just incase*. We hit the road and come across heavy traffic right away… They have traffic in Canada? In the middle of nowhere? See two of us are from the most populated state and I am from the most populated city in the US so coming across Traffic in the middle of nowhere was very strange. I cut through traffic on the KTM and saw what was going on. Some huge dual-end truck was trying to get off a bridge on Route 132. People were out taking photos and all that. I guess this really only happens once in-a-while in Gaspe. Jarek decided to pick up some canned calamari (sounds gross but damn good the next day when you are starving) at the near by store and Ryan and I chatted is up with a snowmobiler. He was excited to hear about what we were trying to accomplish on this trip.













About 10 mins later we roll up to the trailhead. The excitement builds… will it be difficult? Will it take us only 2 hours? Will we run out of gas? Will Ryan get eaten by a bear? All of these thoughts ran through our heads as we mentally prepped for what was about to hit us.



I started up the hill first to lead the way, though my Garmin combined with my standing up riding style was killing my navigation! haha. I kept trying to look down at my bars to see when the next turn was but I had to watch out for rocks and waterholes. It started to become a maze for me so I let Jarek and Ryan lead as they cashed the whole area of the Gaspe on GPS Kit in their iPad. I highly recommend that app!