Back to Vancouver
2024年6月18日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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
2024年6月19日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 goldenもっと詳しく
Whistler
2024年6月20日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 bikersもっと詳しく
Pemberton & Green Lake
2024年6月21日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 seedもっと詳しく
Fort Langley
2024年6月24日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 forもっと詳しく
West Vancouver to Whistler
2024年6月25日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 inもっと詳しく
Joffre Lakes PP / Nairn Falls
2024年6月26日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 aもっと詳しく
Britannia Mine Museum
2024年6月27日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 toもっと詳しく
Alice Lake / Whistler Olympic Park
2024年6月28日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 backもっと詳しく
Lillooet to Cariboo Road
2024年6月29日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 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 theもっと詳しく
Cariboo Wagon Road
2024年6月30日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 toもっと詳しく
Thompson River
2024年6月30日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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’もっと詳しく
Fraser River
2024年7月1日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 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 rapidsもっと詳しく
Hope / E.C. Manning PP
2024年7月4日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 toもっと詳しく
Princeton to Penticton
2024年7月4日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 areもっと詳しく
KVR Rail Trail Penticton
2024年7月5日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 viewsもっと詳しく
Osoyoos to Grand Forks
2024年7月5日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 ontoもっと詳しく
Castlegar to Creston
2024年7月6日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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,もっと詳しく
Fernie to Waterton Lakes NP
2024年7月7日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 Crowsnestもっと詳しく
Waterton Day 1 - Goat Lake
2024年7月8日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 aもっと詳しく
Waterton Day 2 - Carthew Alderson Trail
2024年7月9日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 onもっと詳しく
Waterton Day 3 - Red Rock Canyon
2024年7月10日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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
2024年7月10日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 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.もっと詳しく
Waterton Day 4 - Bertha Lake and Bears!
2024年7月11日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 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, aもっと詳しく
Bar U Ranch / Peter Lougheed PP
2024年7月12日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 aもっと詳しく