Back to Vancouver
June 18, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
As I’m unexpected free for the summer, why not spend it here? I’m back with my friends Rob & Sandy in Langley. A visit to Fort Langley, the earliest British settlement in mainland BC.
Motto for this trip
June 19, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
"How we spend our days," author Annie Dillard once famously said, "is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing." So yeah, every day is a goldenRead more
Whistler
June 20, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Walking around Whistler Village and out to Lost Lake this afternoon. The Village is a planned resort town with a nice pedestrian zone. Great for people watching and observing the many downhill bikersRead more
Pemberton & Green Lake
June 21, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Another beautiful summer day! We drove up to the village of Pemberton for coffee, walked around and stopped by the small historical museum of the farming community nicknamed Spud Valley for the seedRead more
Fort Langley
June 24, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Saturday and Sunday were spent driving back from Whistler, hanging out, admin and doing grocery shopping. I had meant to get on the road today, but as I got a short-term appointment for new tires forRead more
West Vancouver to Whistler
June 25, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
I leave Langley today, making my way back the same road Rob, Sandy and I took last week: highway 99 up to Whistler. There is a ton more to do and see! First stops are in two parks that are still inRead more
Joffre Lakes PP / Nairn Falls
June 26, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
The hike in Joffre Lakes Provincial Park it’s so popular that day passes are needed and today was the only day I could get one for. So I drive up 60 km north of Whistler for this steep hike up aRead more
Britannia Mine Museum
June 27, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
It rained all day, so I make my way 100 kms back down the Sea to Sky Highway to the Britannia Mine Site south of Squamish. Once the largest copper mine in the Commonwealth, it operated from 1911 toRead more
Alice Lake / Whistler Olympic Park
June 28, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
The rain is over. I hike the Four Lakes Loop at Alice Lake (Squamish) before trying my luck at the Railroad Museum - they are only open on Saturdays! Bad business decisions. So I head north backRead more
Lillooet to Cariboo Road
June 29, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Lillooet on the Fraser River marks the end of the Sea to Sky Highway. A much dryer climate, lots of orchards, but economically dead since the town was bypassed by the railroad. I cross over to theRead more
Cariboo Wagon Road
June 30, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
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 toRead more
Thompson River
June 30, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Father south the Cariboo Wagon Road follows the Thompson River. I visit another open, am museum, old stage coach stop Hat Creek Ranch, and continue south. The area here is in the Coast Mountains’Read more
Fraser River
July 1, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The southernmost part of the Cariboo Road, now Trans-Canada Highway, passes through the narrow valley of the Fraser River. At its narrowest point, Hell’s Gate, it’s only 36 m wide and the rapidsRead more
Hope / E.C. Manning PP
July 4, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
July 2nd I spent again with Rob & Sandy in Langley as more repairs to the car were needed. Today I leave the west coast for good - the next few days I’ll travel along the Crowsnest Highway toRead more
Princeton to Penticton
July 4, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
I continue my way on highway 3 along the Similkameen River. First stop in the small, but nice town of Princeton, the bronze statue capital of Canada. Statues of animals existing in the area areRead more
KVR Rail Trail Penticton
July 5, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
If this looks familiar, it is. I was already here last year cycling this fantastic trail along a former railroad track, the KVR, and I liked it so much that I really wanted to do it again. The viewsRead more
Osoyoos to Grand Forks
July 5, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
After my bike tour in the morning, I eat lunch at a local winery and then continue south along the Okanagan Valley, to Osoyoos. I stopped at Vaseaux Lake to look for birds, visit viewpoints ontoRead more
Castlegar to Creston
July 6, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
I bike another rail trail in the morning, this time the Columbia and Western along Arrow Lake just past Castlegar. Beautiful ride, and I like trestle bridges! Then spend some time in Castlegar,Read more
Fernie to Waterton Lakes NP
July 7, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
I have a lot of driving to do, so not not a lot of time for stops. I do stop in Fernie though, tourism, and winter sports town that I really like last year, and in the coal mining area of CrowsnestRead more
Waterton Day 1 - Goat Lake
July 8, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Waterton Lakes National Park is in the westernmost corner of Alberta bordering the US. I was last year and really liked this place of unmatched, natural beauty and diversity. I was lucky to get aRead more
Waterton Day 2 - Carthew Alderson Trail
July 9, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
My first really long hike last year… and it was a red one, so I’m doing it again today. The weather is much nice and warmer, I shared my lunch break with a marmot (Murmeltier) and a great view onRead more
Waterton Day 3 - Red Rock Canyon
July 10, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Time for a break after the exhausting hike yesterday. I drive the scenic roads and splash in Red Rock Canyon - a place you can only experience by going in the water.
Waterton Day 3 - Sunset Cruise
July 10, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
I spent the afternoon hanging around town, a short bike ride - and at the parking there was a bear! A big black bear was crossing a stream, then the road, then making his way up at steep slope.Read more
Waterton Day 4 - Bertha Lake and Bears!
July 11, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
After seeing a bear yesterday afternoon, I had the unbelievable experience to see a mother bear with her cub right in Waterton Village! It was 7 am, and I was meeting with Sylvain and Marie-Jose, aRead more
Bar U Ranch / Peter Lougheed PP
July 12, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
I make my way north along the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains. Most of the day I spend at Bar U Ranch, once one of the largest cattle and Percheron horse breeding ranches in the world, now aRead more