Tired tonight so I will post pics another day. We will be out of internet for a couple of days. Fall colours are gorgeous up here with temps just above freezing.
You guys are truly on an Adventure! The pictures of the gravel road reminded me of when my parents and us kids camped the Trans Newfoundland Highway from Argentia to Port aux Basques in the early 1960's. Almost all gravel! At this point I must salute Elijah Gurr and the community of Bella Coola for getting that highway punched through! More pictures please. Best wishes and stay safe!
I have internet tonight so here are some more pictures. We are leaving a town called Merritt. It is ranch country here. Canadian Country Western music museum can be found here. There is an oil pipeline being built through the province. We come across the construction quite often. Headed north into the Kamloops area. It is more semi-desert. Still quite a bit of colour to see in the hills. Headed north from Kamloops to follow the gold rush trail from 1858 Entering a town called 100 Mile House. Not only part of the gold rush trail but well into cattle country. We stayed the night at the stampede grounds again and the next morning headed north. Entering a town called Quesnel. Now it is a pulp mill and saw mill town. It was a supply town for the gold rush era. Seeing lots of trains. They haul ore and grain from the east to the Port of Vancouver on the west coast. Leaving a town called Prince George. One of the bigger cities in the northern part of the province. We are headed farther north. Getting into snow country. The John Hart highway takes you north into the Peace River country. Although it snowed while I was driving, nothing was sticking. Over the Pine Pass and into the valley where Chetwynd is situated. We left Chetwynd and headed up a road that follows the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 Arriving at a friend's family farm where we stayed a couple of days. The view from their cabin on the edge of the lake. The calf beside the mother is only a couple of days old. The other one is a week old and its mother is to the left of the picture. The views from the top of one of the hay fields. I have never been on an ATV before so they took me out so I could get the above pictures. I am wearing the orange hat. It was a blast.
I hate to be the one telling you this, but campinspecter appears to be sizing up that new trailer to see just how much firewood he can load into it! Thanks for the pics.
Fortunately it has a low GVW and the Tacoma can only pull so much. Wonderful place to gather firewood. Just the fallen dead stuff would keep you in firewood for years. It looks to be mainly aspen.
How’s the Tacoma handle the new trailer? Any problems? It looks like a beautiful trailer, & a dandy Tacoma.
campinspecter has air bags in the rear and the heavy duty tires have quite a bit of pressure in them so the trailer handles quite well. When I am driving, I notice the weight difference a bit and it is a foot wider in the body of the unit. Just to make sure we can see behind, we got extended mirrors.
Made our way up to the dam site that we originally started this trip for. Leaving Chetwynd and headed north east up to Ft. St. John On our way we cross the Peace river below the second dam built on the river. This is called the Peace Canyon dam. Looking downstream of the Peace River We passed through a small town on the way and found this grazing in the park. Needless to say, Shadow went berserk but it didn't seem to bother the buck. As we drove up along the Peace river, we came across a lot of construction in moving the road and clearing land for the lake. I am not sure why the settling ponds were built but it could have something to do with the diversion of the river during the dam building process. They are re-routing the main road and parts will cross the new lake the dam will create. From the viewpoint, you can see the land clearing and hay fields that will be flooded. We got to the viewpoint and found that you could only see through plexiglass. Taking pictures became quite tricky. The big white wall is part of the powerhouse construction. More information. It was quite a bright day and reflections were everywhere.
More information posters Leaving the dam site, we went back to Chetwynd by another route. Here we are driving south on the Alaska Highway. You can sure tell we are east of the Rocky Mountains. Everything is straight and flat. Prairie land and oil country. We drove from Ft. St. John down to Dawson Creek and then back to Chetwynd. Today we made another trip but as I was driving there aren't any pictures. We went into a mining town called Tumbler Ridge. It was built in 1982 to support the coal mines in the area. Now it has wind farms along side the much smaller coal mines that are left. Tomorrow we head back down south - hopefully before it gets much colder.
Here is a link to some information on it. Site C is the third dam on the Peace river. It will be piggybacking on the previous reservoirs for its power production. Project Overview | Site C
Thanks for the pictures and information Woodwidow. Judy and I have been to the first dam. We were coming back from Alaska at the time. This brought back some good memories.
So glad they were good memories. campinspecter and I would like to travel the Alaska highway and take the Dempster highway up to Inuvik.
We left Chetwynd and headed south towards home. It was a cold frosty morning when we left. We are in pipeline country. There is gas and oil pipelines running everywhere. When they cross a river is about the only time you actually see them. Pine pass where we were headed for got snow the day before. There are a lot of power transmission lines as well coming from the dam sites and heading down the province to the heavily populated areas. Lots of snow on the trees - NONE on the road. Lots of old log cabins everywhere falling apart but this one I think is a more recent one. The fields north of Prince George where they had snow the day before. South of Prince George where they only got frost. Following the Thompson River again. We are on the Gold Rush trail highway again. As we get farther south, the trees still have their colourful look. Some of the Cariboo country is swamp. Headed for the coast mountain range. We spend the night in Williams Lake again. Not at the stampeded grounds as it was closed. Got up real early and headed down to catch a ferry to Vancouver Island. We took a different route through BC's famous ski hill country. Saw this quarry along the way. Bright blue sky create bright blue lakes with vivid yellow trees along the edge. Cow country and semi desert area. Irrigation makes the fields so green. We stopped at a viewpoint to look at the mighty Fraser river. You will notice the power lines in the distance. This is the major route for them. Headed into the ski area. This must have been a massive slide. There was a cow on the side of the road. Shadow was a bit excited. Down to the coastal water. The distance was shorter but the time taken was longer due to the winding road. We caught the ferry by the skin of our teeth and now are on the island. We hope to visit family before actually heading home.
This had to be a very satisfying trip for both of you. Did the cold pose any problems with water and holding tanks in the camper?
