Wow - so much has happened since we last added to the blog! From Hope, we climbed through the Fraser Canyon and took a quick tourist's stop at Hell's Gate (the deepest and narrowest part of the Fraser River). We also tasted some green tea fudge created by the fudgemaker of Hell's Gate who plans to own all the candy companies by the day he turns 55. We made it into Lytton that day. Apparently all campsites are right by the train tracks! The train tracks were literally about 25m from our campsite!! Needless to say we were not impressed when the first of 5 or 6 trains rolled on by while we were eating dessert, as that set the stage for the rest of the trains throughout the night.
From Lytton, we biked a couple more hills up to Cache Creek where we took a nice break at Dairy Queen and got our first on-trip donation!! We then grabbed some food and headed 19km east to our campsite (again, by train tracks).
The next day we biked to Kamloops which was only 60km away and we thought it would be a nice half-day and then we could take the rest of the day off. Unluckily, the hills (and wind) were against us that day as the hills were long and tortuous. So it was still half a day but it was a tough half day. In Kamloops we met up with some tree planters (one of which was Leah's friend) who in fact knew two people (from Queen's) I knew and Dave knew a couple people (both from Queen's and his treeplanting days).
After the nights festivities singing karaoke etc., we were determined to make the 108km bike to Salmon Arm. Happily, the first half of the bike was pretty much all downhill so it wasn't as tough as we were expecting.
Oh! While setting up our camp at Hidden Valley Campground, Leah and I both heard a noise in the bush....it turned out to be a bear, as this young black bear comes strolling out of the bush and across the road. Our first encounter with the bears (apparently they haven't been seen here since 1991)...I'm sure we'll see more.
We are about to leave to head out to Revelstoke and hopefully arrive in Calgary in 5 days!?!
Thanks for all the messages from everyone - it's been a wonderful trip so far and it is good to get little notes from all of you throughout our time....
Until next time!
Katie
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Hey girls!! Sounds like you're having an amazing time!! Miss you! Don't make the bears angry;)
So rumour has it that Tom made you girls cut his hair in Kamloops. He would do something like that, wouldn't he. Hope you had a good time with the tree planters and all of there shananigans and tomfoolery.
Ian
P.S. I changed the settings on the blog so that you can see all the comments people make now. yeah
Sounds as if the weather has cooperated pretty well (except for wind?!) HOT!! here. Haven't heard back from Chuck about a place to stay in Medicine Hat. Hope the Achilles is holding up OK!
Dad/John
Great progress ladies!! I am so jealous of you two - what an adventure!!!
Leah - was BC beautiful enough for you to wanna come visit me in the fall?? :-)
-Kat
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