Cariboo Wagon Road

I make my way north along Highway 97, part of the famous Cariboo Wagon Road constructed during gold rush times in the 1860s to connect the Fraser River from its northernmost navigable town of Yale to the big gold fields at Barkerville (where I was last year). Every couple of miles there was a roadhouse. Towns and places still be those names: I sleep and test my limited mountain bike skills at 99 mile recreation area, get gas at the town of 100 mile house, and visit the open air museum at 108 mile house, run by murderess Agnes McVee who killed 55 miners and their gold.Read more