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Lovely Lillooet
The Thanksgiving long weekend fell in the second week of October here so Nath and I of course went away again, this time on a road trip from Vancouver. We headed about three hours north to Rohr Lake for a hike that had been on our list since summer. After scaring ourselves thinking we could hear a bear not far from the start of the trail, we …
Day 5 - Sweet roads and Whistler
... his niceness. We also purchased some luke-cold beer and headed for the room. It was HOT in the room but upon checking in with Chuck he gave us a key and said "head for your room and turn on the A/C, then come back and check in". Thanks Chuck!
The room was small but the bed was excellent and the shower was as good as you can hope for in the middle of nowhere. We were happy!
We grabbed the "cold" beers and a cigar and headed ...
Man O Man
... pushups and situps in the tent. Its a bit of a lottery with campgrounds if you get nice soft ground or hard gravel, lots of mosquitos or no shade or showers or running water so its a different routine every day. Luckily we are pretty self sufficient with a 20L water jug and a camp stove. Our first stop was to find Lightning Lake which ended up being a few kms back from where we did the Canyon walk. We walked around the lake spying all the ...
Sea to Sky Highway
... much different to what we've been seeing. The road was very windy & this continued after Lillooet however we were back into the forests again & snow-capped mountains. It was pretty much a down-hill drive for the afternoon with some of the grades being 13%, glad we were going down & not up.
The day started out lovely, we didn't even have jumpers on ...
A rugged little town
... the Eagle's head poking out the top. We then headed off out of town to Kamloops which was an interesting drive. Brian starting playing up again but this time on the straight, flat roads, another thing on the list! Got to expect these things with such an old van. On the way we stopped at Marble Canyon to look at the lake and read about the Microbialites found under the water.
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