quick story about the area:
Back in the early 80s my folks ran the gold panner cafe at the bottom of the hill. Pretty much the last civilization before Edgewood back in those days. The area is a rugged area with steep valleys and small fast moving streams and is known for gold panning and some placer mining. Anyways across the hiway and down the hill a bit from the cafe led a rough road to to a dude named Andys cabin, he was a gold miner and kind of a hermit. This guy was literally bat $h"t crazy and my brother and I found more than a few of his stashes of dynamite around the woods. Anyways, this guy actually had 4"x 4"cutouts in the walls of his cabin that he'd shoot through if he needed meat or whatever. Long story short... he's had too much booze one night in the lumby bar and had the cops after him. They chased him the 25 or so miles to his cabin in cherryville where he locked himself in and started a firefight with the RCMP. I can't remember exactly how long it went on but I know it was like a day and a half long armed stand off at least. Back in Vernon at city cells this guy actually made his escape and they finally caught him about 5 days later headed for the Yukon. Crazy but true. Taking a page out of "Albert Johnson, the mad trapper of rat river" The old, old timers out there still call him the mad trapper of heckman creek.
