Day 2 of the adventure, and it dawned hot and clear. today we were driving west for while to hit up the legendary Chilcotin.

It’s not as far as Bella Coola, but some folks decided to take that direction, if you know what I mean.

It was around 34 C in the canyon today. Kind of excessive for Canada in April. Especially this far north. Ian and Steve from ChroMag Bikes try to catch a breeze before dropping into the Fingers.

Nope, too hot. Gottta make your own breeze. Outta control on the ring finger.

It was just too hot to hit a ton of lines in Farwell so we decided to go up to desous for some cooler air. Normally it would be buried under snow at this time of year. Not so in 2005.

We ran across this big fella on the way in.

Godspeed, gents.

Somewhere in that mess of rallying on back roads I managed to disconnect my headlights. Good thing I got back to the top of the mountain at sunset then.

It’s a looooooong way back down, and the light was failing. OK, time for a quick sunset pic and back to Mark’s place for beer, food and hot tub.

“Pilsner —– Drink ’till he’s pretty”