…we have left Scarecrow farm and headed south for Vancouver. The start of the hills!! we have travelled down route 99 and are currently in Whistler resting our legs. We have had some mixed weather but luckly clear for some great mountain views.

Crosby.

Bridge Lake at sun down.

Filtering water at Green Lake. A great sky after a very wet day.

Heading out of Blue River.

The start of Route 99

Dead trees at Duffy Lake.

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A happy Lorely at the top of our first steep climb

getting ready for the down hill after a long day climbing

Duffy Lake.

End of the camp fire ban.

Have reached McBride, and taking a few days off the bikes at Scarecrow Farm, it makes a good change to stop a while, but already planning the next route.  The ride has still been great, we headed into the farmland around Smithers and now have climbed back up into the mountains, we are between the Cariboo range and Columbia mountains and the start of the Rockies. The views were great but now you can hardly see anything, the air is very hazy as so many forest fires are burning in the area. From here we will travel on towards Kamloops before cutting across to Whistler and on to Vancouver. On our way to McBride we saw black bear cubs right by the side of us, but quickly headed on before we saw the Mum. We also had Moose in our campsite with three young calves, which was great to see.

Smithers, BC

A perfect camp spot!

“one more cup of coffee for the road”

The surly long haul trucker!

The Mack long haul Trucker!

The Ancient Forest on the way to McBride

Pruden lake, a really lovely swimming spot after a hot cycle.

Lorely filtering water at Slim creek.

Smokey skies and Russ with his new licence plate!

Hay time at Scarecrow farm.

 Scarecrow farm

Kittens in the barn!

White water rafting with Tweazle, Peter and family.

In the flat back Ford

Scarecrow Farm

Scarecrow Farm.

 

 

 

 

 

….so a 1000 miles down the road and we are in Smithers B.C. Have had some great days cycling, camping,swimming in the lakes and some of the best scenery we have seen. The road from Haines Junction to Haines was one of the best we have cycled, lots of sun, no cars and mountains everywhere. Shame about the head winds. We then caught the ferry to Prince Rupert down through the fjords past Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan. We saw whales, seals and loads of flying fish. Making our way to Prince George and on down to Vancouver.

arriving back into Alaska

mile 33 diner serving great apple pie and ice cream washed down with a cup of coffee

on the road to Haines

Haines,Alaska.

Jiffy pop…..

popped!!!

Chilkat river

waiting for the ferry

On the Alaska marine highway

camping on the deck of the boat!

Whale watching