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Yipee!

Photos finally! Feast yer peepers!

Well well. Its been a very, very long time since Ive posted. But here they are, here I am, and wow, am I having a really great time. Such a great time, Im actually out of time.. but I should have just enough to outline our route.

From Penticton where my last pictured post was sent in, we rode North to Kelowna, and then back south through Penticton to Osoyoos. From there we climbed Anarchist's Summit, over to Grand Forks. From there, it was off to Christina Lake, followed by the lovely section of the Trans Canada Trail to Castlegar. Then on to Nelson, followed NE by Harrop and Proctor, then down one of the most beautiful lakes in the world to Creston. From Creston, we went up and over to Cranbrook, and from there to our current home, Fernie.

Some numbers:
Number of massive fricking hills climbed: Quite a few.
Number of Kilometres ridden since leaving Victoria in June:

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Photos

Sarah and Stephen
Us attacking the Kettle Valley Railroad Trail.. or part of it. Sarah appears to be playing leapfrog with her bike.

Taken from the KVR
A shot of Kootenay Lake, and the deserty landscape around the area.

KVR Choo Choo Train
This train we came across as we were leavin the KVR. All of a sudden, tracks started on the trail, and lowe and behold before us, was a choochoo train.

Kootenay Lake
I love BC.

Cherry Orchard
This is one of the places we were able to camp. Nice spot. Did YOU know, that orchards like this throw out tonnes of scarred cherries, the ones that arnt quite pretty enough to sell? We got a HUGE amount of donated cherries, we were eating them for over a week.

Grasshopper
Playing hide-and-go-seek.

Bug
On someone's shoulder.

Anarchist's Summit
Myself and Marc, a third of the way up the summit, lookin' all goofy in our spandex.

Anna and I
Sun + big effing hill + spandex = Ballet.

Anarchist's Summit
Group Photo

Travis and Anna
Riding away from me. In between Grand Forks, and Osoyoos.

Team-Building Exercise
Taken at our Mid-Tour Retreat.

Family Photo
Taken in the beginning of a detour down the TRANS-CANADA TRAIL.. booyah!

A Feller Named Garth.
This was at the beginning of our Trans-Canada Trail excursion aswell. He lived here, way the heck in the middle of nowhere, all by himself.. and owned the rickity cabin we took our family photos in.. oops.

Trans-Canada Trail Tuffguy
Stephen Fincham suckin back some wawa.

Yeah, you better frickin believe it..
So, on our Trans-Canada-Trail journey, there happened to be tunnels. A bunch of em. And one reeeeally long one (~1km). And this one was it. Bring out the flashlights kiddies.

Tunnel
So we turned on our flashlights. And then, turned them off. And all we could see was this. That was ALL we could see. It was almost a kilometre away at first, a tiny little speck.. what a feeling, walking in pitch black, only able to see this.. wow.

End of Tunnel
And then we escaped. Horray.

Cavebear
Me + Cave = coolness.

Comments

[Gaylon Edwards]

Thanks for giving me a smile
I was stuck here in my office taking a break and searching for happy stuff on the computer and came across your blog. These photos are fantastic! Thanks for making this middle-aged man stuck in his corporate job smile! :)