We are in Vanderhoof, the geographical center of BC, and have cycled over 1100 km. We could have driven this distance in two days, but not once have I had that yucky feeling I get with long distance driving. Malkolm's bird count is at 115 species.
The Stewart-Cassiar Highway had so little traffic that I felt as though we were on our own private bike path. Highway 16 is not like that. I am on high alert as transport trucks, campers and pickups towing huge pleasure boats whiz by.
We camped in a gravel pit the other night.On the forested hillside across the valley most of trees were reddish brown. They were lodgepole pines, killed by pine bark beetle. Many factors caused this epidemic, one of which is climate change. The winters are not cold enough to kill the larvae. Right below our camp was a railway line. A locomotive roared past, pulling 100 cars filled with coal. The BC government says they are concerned about climate change, and yet coal mining goes on.
The Stewart-Cassiar Highway had so little traffic that I felt as though we were on our own private bike path. Highway 16 is not like that. I am on high alert as transport trucks, campers and pickups towing huge pleasure boats whiz by.
We camped in a gravel pit the other night.On the forested hillside across the valley most of trees were reddish brown. They were lodgepole pines, killed by pine bark beetle. Many factors caused this epidemic, one of which is climate change. The winters are not cold enough to kill the larvae. Right below our camp was a railway line. A locomotive roared past, pulling 100 cars filled with coal. The BC government says they are concerned about climate change, and yet coal mining goes on.
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