We knew it was going to be up but....
The sun was shining and we had a beautiful breakfast down by the Cascade Falls overlooking a railroad bridge. It doesn't get much prettier than that, especially when the camp site is free.
After that things went a bit off. We had a bit of an accident loading up the bikes and Evan's mirror broke so on the way out of town we stopped at a bike shop but to no avail, they didn't have the right kind of mirror. The guy in the shop was really nice and put to rest any last hope of taking the Kettle Valley Trail instead of going over Bonanza Pass because it had snow there only 2 days earlier.
Back to the up... We knew it was up but we didn't anticipate that it was 32 km of steep incline!?! Egads! We have done lots of reading on these parts of the trip and nobody has said a peep about Bonanza. Either-way, it's fair to say that it was much more difficult than Osoyoos and second only to Allison pass. Even finding a flat lunch spot was a real challenge.
Finally after reaching a rather uninteresting summit, we cruised on down the remaining 40 km into Castlegar; and I mean cruised. I think I only peddled about twice in the last 2 hours.
Our campsite in Castlegar is great! Grassy, kids running around and best of all a hot shower. So props to my bud Heather for the awesome advice. I am still a bit disappointed that she isn't here to show me around after complaining about her little town for years at SFU though. Oh well. But the verdict is still out on how we like Castlegar, check back tomorrow to find out the full scoop!
All in all it was a huge day, we're exhausted....
P.S if you don't get the reference to "up hill down hill" in the title go search "night time day time bird" in YouTube. I promise you won't regret it!
Stats:
Distance: 85.53 km
Average Speed: 13.9 km/h
Distance from Vancouver: 670 km
Time on bikes: 6:07:53
Start time: 9:30 am
End time: 7:15 pm
Cheers
- The Warpotay Team
The sun was shining and we had a beautiful breakfast down by the Cascade Falls overlooking a railroad bridge. It doesn't get much prettier than that, especially when the camp site is free.
After that things went a bit off. We had a bit of an accident loading up the bikes and Evan's mirror broke so on the way out of town we stopped at a bike shop but to no avail, they didn't have the right kind of mirror. The guy in the shop was really nice and put to rest any last hope of taking the Kettle Valley Trail instead of going over Bonanza Pass because it had snow there only 2 days earlier.
Back to the up... We knew it was up but we didn't anticipate that it was 32 km of steep incline!?! Egads! We have done lots of reading on these parts of the trip and nobody has said a peep about Bonanza. Either-way, it's fair to say that it was much more difficult than Osoyoos and second only to Allison pass. Even finding a flat lunch spot was a real challenge.
Finally after reaching a rather uninteresting summit, we cruised on down the remaining 40 km into Castlegar; and I mean cruised. I think I only peddled about twice in the last 2 hours.
Our campsite in Castlegar is great! Grassy, kids running around and best of all a hot shower. So props to my bud Heather for the awesome advice. I am still a bit disappointed that she isn't here to show me around after complaining about her little town for years at SFU though. Oh well. But the verdict is still out on how we like Castlegar, check back tomorrow to find out the full scoop!
All in all it was a huge day, we're exhausted....
P.S if you don't get the reference to "up hill down hill" in the title go search "night time day time bird" in YouTube. I promise you won't regret it!
Stats:
Distance: 85.53 km
Average Speed: 13.9 km/h
Distance from Vancouver: 670 km
Time on bikes: 6:07:53
Start time: 9:30 am
End time: 7:15 pm
Cheers
- The Warpotay Team
Location:Gleboff Rd,Castlegar,Canada
I searched night time day time bird. pretty good stuff!
ReplyDeleteloving the updates!
you all are amazing!