Back to Vancouver
18. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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
19. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 goldenWeiterlesen
Whistler
20. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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 bikersWeiterlesen
Pemberton & Green Lake
21. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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 seedWeiterlesen
Fort Langley
24. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 forWeiterlesen
West Vancouver to Whistler
25. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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 inWeiterlesen
Joffre Lakes PP / Nairn Falls
26. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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 aWeiterlesen
Britannia Mine Museum
27. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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 toWeiterlesen
Alice Lake / Whistler Olympic Park
28. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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 backWeiterlesen
Lillooet to Cariboo Road
29. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ⛅ 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 theWeiterlesen
Cariboo Wagon Road
30. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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 toWeiterlesen
Thompson River
30. Juni 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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’Weiterlesen
Fraser River
1. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ⛅ 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 rapidsWeiterlesen
Hope / E.C. Manning PP
4. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 toWeiterlesen
Princeton to Penticton
4. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 areWeiterlesen
KVR Rail Trail Penticton
5. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 viewsWeiterlesen
Osoyoos to Grand Forks
5. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 ontoWeiterlesen
Castlegar to Creston
6. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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,Weiterlesen
Fernie to Waterton Lakes NP
7. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 CrowsnestWeiterlesen
Waterton Day 1 - Goat Lake
8. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 aWeiterlesen
Waterton Day 2 - Carthew Alderson Trail
9. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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 onWeiterlesen
Waterton Day 3 - Red Rock Canyon
10. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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
10. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 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.Weiterlesen
Waterton Day 4 - Bertha Lake and Bears!
11. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ⛅ 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, aWeiterlesen
Bar U Ranch / Peter Lougheed PP
12. Juli 2024 in Kanada ⋅ ☁️ 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 aWeiterlesen




































































































































































































































































































































































































































