Canada & USA 2015

[austin]

Canada has a nationwide chain of coffee places called Tim Hortons. They are bit fast food-ish in style but the coffee is good and the wifi is free and fast. So, some photos.

Caribou (I think) at the side of the road


Bear proof lockers at the campsite


Rocky mountain views







Baby Elk


Lake Maligne (( bit wonky though)


Medicine Lake. An interesting one this as it has no surface outflow. It drains into a vast underground cave system that resurfaces about 20miles away. In the winter when everything running into the lake freezes the level drops dramatically, sometimes draining completely.


This deer thing wandered through our campsite this morning

 

[Steve T]

Those bear proof lockers don't look big enough to sleep in! Whats that all about?

Great pictures and info

Jealous of your travels . . . . but sniggering about the soaking your getting - could be in Scotland with that amount of water falling on you

Keep safe and keep taking photo's and typing about you travels - just to keep us lesser mortals jealous and helping us know your safe

Steve T

 

[itspossible]

Yup, that looks like Canada...hope you're enjoying. I'm delayed, leaving Prince George July 5 and going north. I'll keep checking, maybe we'll meet again on the road...enjoy your travels.

r

 

[OhJ]

BMW panniers falling off scary. I nearly caused an international incident on the German autoban mine just bounced up and down flailing around attached to my bungies. Found loads of dirt in the locks.
Terrible report ride safe.

 

[austin]

Re: Canada & USA 2015

We are now well into British Colombia with the Rockies temporarily behind us. We stayed at a strange place called Kamloops. Strange because it was like a semi arid desert just a few miles from the high snow clad mountains and huge rivers full of glacier meltwater.

We headed south from jasper and down the Icefields parkway (mountains, snow, glaciers, etc) to Lake Louise (pretty tourist honeypot) where we had a night in a hostel as it was another cold and wet day. We both have bad colds and our huffing puffing and my snoring drive one of the other dorm residents out the room. Ha ha. We camped at Kamloops as it was nice and dry.

Back north towards Prince George, but our sore bums gave out before so we are in a motel in the middle of nowhere. $55 for a motel. $30ish to camp. No question.

Campsites here are good and bad. First a campsite is called a campground and a pitch is called a campsite. We confuse people a lot! A pitch/site is huge and normally separated by several yards of trees and undergrowth. They are sized for American RVs, and 5th wheel trailers so are usually pull-thru in design and mostly hard standing gravel. Each pitch comes with a big picnic table and a fire pit or stand of some sort. It's extra for a fire permit but wood is sometimes included or is dead cheap. Most campgrounds are heavily wooded so rather cool, shady and damp in the current weather. We have paid between $18 and $40 per night. Not all campgrounds have all facilities: many limited to just drop/compost toilets and cold taps. The RVs are obviously very well equipped. The campgrounds also tend to be well out of town and have no facilities for food or anything.

The wifi is too slow for photos. Will try later.


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[austin]

Re: Canada & USA 2015

Hmmm, I can't decide if camping by the bear proof lockers is a good or a bad thing. It's nice and handy for putting stuff in but if a bear comes sniffing around for that open jar of jam it's going to be very near our tent.

Camping at Smithers in Northern BC.


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[Philwhiskeydrinker]

Re: Canada & USA 2015

Hmmm, I can't decide if camping by the bear proof lockers is a good or a bad thing. It's nice and handy for putting stuff in but if a bear comes sniffing around for that open jar of jam it's going to be very near our tent.

Camping at Smithers in Northern BC.


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Maybe that no one else is pitched near the lockers is an indication!

 

[ianbiggar]

Still around Austin - thanks for the photo - it was named after a forbear (damn those bears get everywhere!) and I've even been there!
Glad you seem to be having a good time or at least bearable. Oooops - time to leave.
Ian

 

[itspossible]

bears quickly learn that they can't get into these food lockers so don't waste their time trying. Hard to believe but that's the way it works.

 

[austin]

bears quickly learn that they can't get into these food lockers so don't waste their time trying. Hard to believe but that's the way it works.

I am just giving the guys some material to play with

 

[austin]

Canada & USA 2015

Pictures from the last few days......

I still don't understand how Apple's photo app works with sharing and reverted to iPhoto and photo bucket, which is much easier.

Some photo's hopefully more or less in order of direction travelled.

This Deer Wandered through the campsite


Athabascar Falls






River and Mountains


Mountains snow and ice


First glimpse of Athabascar Glacier






Arty farty stuff at the glacier edge


Glacier meltwater




and another glacier


Lake Louise




Awesome Dual SPort Harley Sidecar in Kamloops










Semi Arid around Kamloops




Rest area west of Prince george. Good weather at last!!:clap

 

[Paul-S]

Great stuff Austin

 

[Lowflyer]

Excellent Austin,

Keep em comin'

Yon arty farty stuff is common up here as well

 

[austin]

6 hours on wifi and two pictures uploaded. We are in the back of beyond in a small community called Dease Lake on the Stewart Cassier Highway. It is now getting very very remote with around 200Km between places that consist of a small petrol station and store and a couple of houses. In between its trees lakes and stunning mountain views.

The Salmon Glacier. 30 miles down an gravel road. It was awesome. Loads more pics to come


Black bear ambling up the road towards us


We are going to Telegraph Creek tomorrow. Google it, well google telegraph creek road. Its going to be good this

 

[-XP-]

I know I'm the same, Russ. I keep checking every day for a new travel update.

 

[Whealie]

Re: Canada & USA 2015

Me too


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[boboneleg]

Me three

 

[Stubbsie]

Nice one Austin, looks a grand ride out there.
Just had to cancel my Arctic Circle Trip last minute as Viv's going into hospital tomorrow (Friday) for a brain biopsy.
Same day the trip was due to start, temporary postponement until 2016 ish.
Keep the reports and pics coming just picked up on your thread, catch up with you soon -ish mate

 

[Philwhiskeydrinker]

Re: Canada & USA 2015

Nice one Austin, looks a grand ride out there.
Just had to cancel my Arctic Circle Trip last minute as Viv's going into hospital tomorrow (Friday) for a brain biopsy.
Same day the trip was due to start, temporary postponement until 2016 ish.
Keep the reports and pics coming just picked up on your thread, catch up with you soon -ish mate

Sorry to hear it, fingers crossed for you both Stubbsie.

 

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Hope all goes well Stubsie.